Saturday, May 01, 2010

Faces Come out of the Rain

"The images in question, it turns out, were culled from outtakes of Morrison's self-financed 1969 film, 'HWY: An American Pastoral.' And according to Tom DiCillo, the writer and director of 'When You're Strange,' potential doubters wouldn't be the first to question the authenticity of the reel.
"'We were showing it at Sundance and a distributor disgustedly stormed out of a screening,' DiCillo recounted. 'I ran down the street to ask why he'd left and the distributor replied, "I can't believe you'd use an actor in this movie." I laughed and told him that I'd never do such a thing.'"

In the Los Angeles Times, Jeff Weiss talks to the makers of When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors.

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