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Sally Potter
RAGE
Berlinale - 59. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Berlinale Palast, Berlin
reviewed by Gary Levinson

From the perspective of a color therapist, Rage must be an intriguing film. Against a solid background of different changing colors, dialogs with several individuals take place. These colorful interviews are recorded by a school boy for transmission on his web site. This all takes place over the course of seven days. (more…)

Tom DiCillo
When You’re Strange
Berlinale - 59. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Colosseum, Berlin
reviewed by Gary Levinson

When You’re Strange is a documentary about Jim Morrison and The Doors. Tom DiCillo’s film uses a variety of authentic sources: film made by Morrison himself, concert and studio recordings, news clips, and apparently much as-of-yet-unseen footage from the Courson (Pamela Courson was Morrison’s long-term girlfriend) and Morrison families’ private archives. (more…)