The WG News

archive

  • Home
  • Food + Drink
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Music
    • Film
    • Theater
  • Local
    • Commentary
    • Environment
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Real Estate

Northside Festival Presents Beyond the Doors at Union Docs

June 17, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

beyond-the-doors-cardThe story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.

Directed by schlock cinema auteur Larry Buchanan (Zontar the Thing from Venus, Mars Needs Women, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald) seven years before Oliver Stone’s The Doors, Buchanan’s film mixes generational war and conspiracy theory in a dead-end mise en scene in which political and pop history compete for attention in anonymous hotel rooms linked by TV sets nobody is watching.

Buchanan, an Austin, Texas-based no-budget filmmaker, could not afford the rights to any Hendrix, Joplin, or The Doors hits, so instead commissioned unconvincing sound-alike songs for his cast of local actors to perform. Beyond the Doors/Down on US, which never played in any theater outside of Austin, presents a posthumous history of classic rock from before the point it was fully commodified, when it was still open to peculiar interpretation and awkward deification.

Q&A to follow

Beyond the Doors (aka Down On Us) presented by N+1FR, the N+1 Film Review
Directed by Larry Buchanan
117min/1984/USA/English

9pm at UnionDocs, $13, get tickets
322 Union Avenue, Williamsburg

« When I Walk, 2nd Northside Film Festival show at Union Docs
Om Dar Ba Dar // i am micro at Light Industry »

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Categories

  • Art
  • Art Openings
  • Bars
  • Beauty
  • Bicycles
  • Bits
  • Body
  • Books + Readings
  • Comedy
  • Commentary
  • Community
  • Design
  • Dig & Be Dug
  • Eating Again
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Fashion
  • Featured Story
  • Fiction
  • Film
  • Food + Drink
  • Gardening
  • Hacks
  • Halloweenie
  • Home
  • Interviews
  • Issues by the Number
  • Kids
  • Latest News
  • LGBT
  • Made in Brooklyn
  • Medical
  • Music
  • none
  • Performance
  • Personal Essay
  • Phil On Fire
  • Photo of the Day
  • Politics
  • Radio + Streaming
  • Real Estate
  • Recipes
  • Religion
  • Shopping
  • Tech
  • The Newscap
  • Theatre
  • Transportation
  • Trent's Picks
  • TV and Streaming
  • Uncategorized
  • Vintage
  • WG Photo
  • WG Picks
  • Wine

Archives

  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • February 2016
  • December 2015
  • October 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009

Copyright © 2025 · f on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in