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Jim Morrison is coming to SXSW
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost two decades since Oliver Stone’s “The Doors” hit big screens and provided for an entire generation the portrait of boozed-up, womanizing, quasi-mystic.
Nineteen years later, director Tom DiCillo (who directed “Living in Oblivion” and served as director of photography on Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes”) brings to SXSW “When You’re Strange,” a documentary featuring previously unseen footage that shows another side of the Los Angeles-based band and its iconic frontman, Jim Morrison. If that’s not enough to make all the men who want to be him and the women who want to be with him swoon, the doc is narrated by Johnny Depp. (Does this mean we can expect Red River in 2011 to be littered with wannabe-Morrisons, dressed in leather pants, drunk on whiskey and openly reciting LSD-inspired poetry? Would that be an upgrade?)
Check out the trailer here. Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek says in an interview that this new documentary “will tell the real story of The Doors, unlike the Oliver Stone story of The Doors, which is sort of Oliver Stone in leather pants, as opposed to Jim Morrison.” Zing. Manzarek goes on to call Stone’s version, “a gross exaggeration … a cutting together of Jim’s drunken moments that show Jim as absurd, rebellious and wild.”
Check out Manzarek and Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger playing “Riders on the Storm” at the Gibson house at Sundance in 2009. If Manzarek and Krieger could head up to Utah to jam, I think it would only be right for them to jam in Austin.
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By Buddy Garrity
February 25, 2010 9:35 AM | Link to this
The Lizard King lives!