Do The Doors still matter in 2010? That’s the unstated question posed to anyone watching “When You’re Strange,” a new documentary that tracks the band’s short and tumultuous career in the 1960s.
“When You’re Strange” arrives some four decades after the death of lead singer and bona fide rock god Jim Morrison at the age of 27. Director Tom DiCillo, working with the full support of the band, seeks to tell The Doors’ story as it was seen at the time, solely using period footage to bring the era to life.
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