A special screening of the 2009 documentary When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors has been added to the lineup of the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The event, which celebrates The Doors’ 60th anniversary, takes place June 14 at 2 p.m. ET at the SVA Theatre.
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Founding Doors drummer John Densmore will be in attendance and will take part in a post-screening interview.
Densmore posted a message about the event on his social media pages.
“I’m excited to be part of a special event at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, celebrating 60 years of The Doors,” he wrote. Regarding When You’re Strange, he said the documentary was “a film that really captures the spirit of what we created together.”
John added that during the Q&A session, he will talk about “the band’s journey, the times we lived through, and the music that’s still resonating all these years later.”
The When You’re Strange screening is part of the festival’s “Reunions and Retrospectives” category of events.
More About When You’re Strange
When You’re Strange had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009. The film was directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp.
The movie offers an intimate look at the history of The Doors, utilizing rare archival footage of the group’s four members—singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and Densmore.
Depp once commented about When You’re Strange, “As a rock ‘n’ roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn’t get any better than this.”
More About the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival
As previously reported, the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival will include a variety of world-premiere screenings of movies featuring and/or about well-known music artists.
The lineup includes documentaries about Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Metallica, Depeche Mode, Counting Crows, and Culture Club.
The festival runs from June 4 to June 15. Individual tickets and ticket packages are available now. For full details about the screenings, visit TribecaFilm.com.
Other 60th Anniversary Doors Events and Releases
A variety of other special events and releases have been planned in celebration of The Doors’ 60th anniversary.
Krieger is commemorating the milestone with a series of special monthly shows with his solo band at the famed Sunset Strip venue the Whisky a Go Go. Each concert is showcasing a full performance of a different Doors album. The remining shows in the series, which kicked off in March, are scheduled for May 29, June 28, and July 26.
In addition, a standard Bookstore Edition of the expansive new coffee-table book Night Divides the Day: The Doors Anthology will be released on May 13.
Sourced from The Doors’ archives, Night Divides the Day features a bevy of photos, images of memorabilia, and interviews with the band members. The book also includes new conversations with Krieger and Densmore. Pricier Deluxe and Collector’s editions of Night Divides the Day were made available earlier this year.
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