November 18, 2010

Netflix Worthy: When You're Strange: The Doors

I had heard nothing about the documentary When You're Strange: The Doors directed by Tom DiCillo. Honestly, my knowledge of The Doors stops after a handful of their hits songs and Jim Morrison's name (I didn't even know that Kanye sampled "Five to One" for Jay-Z's "Takeover"). I appreciated the film's different approach of not including any interviews and depending strictly on Johny Depp's narration. The archival footage was amazing, the jem being the use of footage from the independent film HWY - The American Pastoral (1969) in which Morrison stars in.

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