The Doors: The Final Cut

★★★ Dir: Oliver Stone STUDIO CANAL. DVD/BR Oliver Stone’s exercise in rock mythmaking, reissued as 4k, Dolby Atmos restoration. We’re now much further away from Oliver Stone’s 1991 rococo band biopic than the film was from The Doors’ heyday. Often ridiculed for its cartoonish depiction of rock’n’roll hedonism, its hokey hipster dialogue and a naive concept of musical creativity, the film has matured in odd and interesting ways. First, it’s very funny, with everyone’s roles fixed somewhere between impersonation and parody. Best is Val Kilmer’s Morrison, a violent shamanic fool unable to see the hurt he is causing. Meg Ryan’s Pam Morrison has also aged well as the film’s vulnerable heart, an abused woman standing in for all the love generation’s abused women. The gorgeous restoration makes the ’90s look more Edenic than the ’60s, and the film’s live sequences now sound amazing, underlining how Morrison was a person only ever truly alive on-stage.