When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors

When You’re Strange is nominated for a Emmy!

WYS — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:42:14 +0000

Outstanding Nonfiction Series

American Masters • PBS • A Production of Wolf Films and Strange Pictures LLC in association with Rhino Entertainment and Thirteen’s American Masters for WNET.org

Susan Lacy, Executive Producer
Prudence Glass, Series Producer
Julie Sacks, Supervising Producer
John Beug, Producer
Jeffrey Jampol, Producer
Dick Wolf, Producer
Peter Jankowski, Produced By

American Masters/PBS Broadcast May 12, 2010

WYS — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:14:20 +0000

The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists – drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison – made The Doors one of America’s most iconic and influential, theatrical and mysterious, thrilling and sometime frightening rock bands. - read more

‘Strange,’ Fascinating Images – USA TODAY

WYS — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:59:21 +0000

“The Doors lit rock ‘n’ roll fires for only 54 months, having formed after Morrison met Manzarek in 1965, when both were UCLA film students. We get a sense of them as bandmates as they hang around backstage or rehearse, garage-band-style.” read the rest of Claudia Puig’s 3 out of 4 star review

DOORS REOPENED IN ‘WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE’ – LA TIMES

WYS — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:11:53 +0000

Click here to read what Jeff Weiss of the L.A. Times had to say about When You’re Strange.

Review From Peter Travers of ROLLING STONE: ‘Hypnotic’

WYS — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:37:00 +0000

In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Peter Travers gives When You’re Strange a three-star review, writing, “Clips from a film Morrison made himself in the desert are alone worth the price of admission… New fans and old will find the experience hypnotic.”
- read the article and watch the first-look clip

When You’re Strange Wins 2010 SXSW Audience Award

WYS — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:14:57 +0000

After a packed showing at the 2010 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival and Conference, ‘When You’re Strange’ has received the Audience Award in the 24 Beats Per Second category! Click here for a full list of winners.

SXSW Screening & Music Panel

WYS — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:42:23 +0000

In conjunction with the screening of the Doors documentary When You’re Strange at SXSW Film on Friday March 19, the SXSW Music Conference announces a late addition to the schedule – a special panel with Robby Krieger and manager Jeff Jampol on Friday March 19 as well!

Krieger and Jampol will discuss the long-lost footage that is finally being released. Narrated by Johnny Depp, award-winning writer-director Tom DiCillo’s riveting film uncovers historic, previously unseen footage of The Doors and provides new insight into the revolutionary impact of their music and legacy. When You’re Strange is the first feature documentary to tell their story. See the movie and attend the panel at SXSW.

SXSW Music Panel
When You’re Strange
Friday March 19
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Room 19A
Austin Convention Center

SXSW Film Screening
When You’re Strange
Friday March 19
5:00 PM
Paramount Theater
(This screening is open to SXSW Music badges.)

Variety: Doors ‘Break On Through’ The Silver Screen

WYS — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:02:41 +0000

Excerpt from Variety.com on 3/1/2010 (read the full article here): “When DiCillo’s film, now getting a limited release April 9, was screened at the Park City showcase in 2009 as a work in progress, some critics and distributors stormed out of the theater, convinced the filmmakers had used an actor to play Morrison in the film’s opening sequence. What they actually saw were outtakes of a bearded Morrison from a 51-minute short called “Hwy: An American Pastoral” that Morrison, a UCLA film school graduate, had made with Paul Ferrara in 1969. DiCillo discovered the original 35 millimeter master, “literally right before we finished,” he tells Variety.

The footage, which DiCillo uses to frame his 89-minute film, is one feature that sets “When You’re Strange” apart from previous documents of the Doors, one of the most chronicled bands to emerge from the late-’60s/early-’70s pop-rock renaissance.”

Read the full article here.

Soundtrack Available April 6

WYS — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:56:42 +0000

Rhino Records will release When You’re Strange (Music From The Motion Picture) on April 6, 2010. The soundtrack contains several selections of Jim Morrison’s poetry as read by Johnny Depp, interview clips with all four band members, and 14 songs that survey The Doors’ six landmark albums with original studio versions of classic tracks (“Touch Me,” “The End,” and “L.A. Woman”) along with rare live performances from The Ed Sullivan Show (“Light My Fire”), Danish TV (“When The Music’s Over”), and the Isle Of Wight Festival (“Break On Through [To The Other Side]”).

TRACKLISTING

1. Poem: Cinema – Johnny Depp [0:25]
(Jim Morrison)

2. Poem: The Spirit Of Music – Johnny Depp [0:22]
(Jim Morrison)

3. MOONLIGHT DRIVE – The Doors [3:01] (The Doors)

4. Poem: The Doors Of Perception – Johnny Depp [0:08] (William Blake)

5. BREAK ON THROUGH (TO THE OTHER SIDE) (Live) – The Doors [4:59] (The Doors)
The Isle Of Wight, August 29, 1970 (Stereo)

6. LIGHT MY FIRE (Live) – The Doors [3:05]
The Ed Sullivan Show, September 19, 1967 (Mono)

7. “To really be a superstar” – Jim Morrison (Interview) [0:14]

8. FIVE TO ONE – The Doors [4:27] (The Doors)

9. Poem: Wasting The Dawn – Johnny Depp [0:25] (Jim Morrison)

10. WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER (Live) – The Doors [12:27] (The Doors)
Television-Byen; Gladsaxe, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 18, 1968 (Mono)

11.
a. “The four of us are musicians” – Jim Morrison (Interview) [0:29]
b. “I’d like them to listen” – Ray Manzarek (Interview)
c. “Rock & roll and jazz” – John Densmore (Interview)
d. “Our music is symbolic” – Robby Krieger (Interview)

12. HELLO, I LOVE YOU – The Doors [2:39] (The Doors)

13. “Dead serious” – Jim Morrison (Interview) [0:08]

14. PEOPLE ARE STRANGE – The Doors [2:10] (The Doors)

15. Poem: Inside The Dream – Johnny Depp [0:14](Jim Morrison)

16. SOUL KITCHEN – The Doors [3:32](The Doors)

17. Poem: We Have Been Metamorphosized – Johnny Depp [0:15] (Jim Morrison)

18. Poem: Touch Scares – Johnny Depp [0:08] (Jim Morrison)

19. TOUCH ME – The Doors [3:28] (Robby Krieger)

20. Poem: Naked We Come – Johnny Depp [0:09] (Jim Morrison)

21. Poem: O Great Creator Of Being – Johnny Depp [0:08] (Jim Morrison)

22. THE END – The Doors [11:39] (The Doors)

23. Poem: The Girl Of The Ghetto – Johnny Depp [0:26] (Jim Morrison)

24. L.A. WOMAN – The Doors [7:57] (The Doors)

25. Poem: Crossroads – Johnny Depp [0:10] (Jim Morrison)

26. ROADHOUSE BLUES – The Doors [4:07] (Jim Morrison/The Doors)

27. Poem: Ensenada – Johnny Depp [0:14] (Jim Morrison)

28. RIDERS ON THE STORM – The Doors [7:16] (Jim Morrison/The Doors)

29. Poem: As I Look Back – Johnny Depp [0:11] (Jim Morrison)

30. THE CRYSTAL SHIP – The Doors [2:32] (The Doors)

31. Poem: Goodbye America – Johnny Depp

The Doors Provide Exclusive Soundtrack to Cold Case

WYS — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:40:55 +0000

Several songs by the iconic rock group The Doors will be featured exclusively throughout the episode of COLD CASE to be broadcast Sunday, Feb. 21 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The featured songs will be “Light My Fire,” “Waiting for the Sun,” “Love Her Madly,” “Wild Child,” “Riders on the Storm,” “Moonlight Drive” and “People Are Strange.”

In the episode, titled “Metamorphosis,” the team investigates the 1971 death of a teenaged circus aerialist whose mid-act fall may have been the result of foul play. Meanwhile, Rush faces potential charges in another case. Joe Penny (“Jake and the Fatman,” “Riptide”) returns as the father of the victim in last season’s two-part finale episode. Guest stars include Emmy Award winner Peggy McCay (“The Trials of Rosie O’Neill,” “Days of Our Lives”) and Michael John Anderson (“Carnivàle”) who play a fellow circus performer and the ringmaster of the victim’s traveling circus, respectively. Series star Danny Pino co-wrote this episode with series producer Adam Glass.

“Both Adam (Glass) and I are definitely Doors-heads,” shared Pino. “There was really no other band in our minds as our story of a case involving a traveling circus in the ‘70s started to manifest itself. So, we’re excited that COLD CASE was able to secure The Doors’ music for this episode. Their haunting lyrics, mesmerizing melodies and a pulsating foreboding keyboard proved an ideal soundtrack to accompany murder in a ‘one ring mud show.’”