Saturday, June 13, 2009

the doors

Oliver Stone - 1991

Let's start with the cast - Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Kyle McLachlan, Michael Madsen, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan - seriously. It was interesting, I haven't watched this in a few years and some of the dialogue was pretty weak. But the film is saved by the imagery. Stone feels his way through the story, folding on top of itself. The Native American motif - which exists in many Stone films - is dominant and intense.

I don't watch as many Stone films now as I used to, the complexity of what he's doing on the screen is fascinating. This man clearly does not think in linear fashions.

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