When You’re Strange: Real '60s Feel in the Doors Doc
- by Peter Howell
FILMMAKER TOM DICILLO'S SPELLBINDING DOCUMENTARY ON THE DOORS SKILLFULLY STITCHES TOGETHER MOSTLY UNSEEN ARCHIVAL MATERIAL TO GIVE A REAL TIME-AND-PLACE FEEL OF BEING WITH ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BANDS OF THE ROCK ERA.
Nothing about The Doors ever made sense.
The California quartet was comprised of a sleepy-eyed poet, a flamenco guitarist, a classically trained keyboardist and a jazzbo drummer, who somehow came together to make some of the most compelling rock music of the 1960s.
So it makes weird logic that late frontman Jim Morrison should be driving a car listening to details of his own death and funeral.
