New York Doll
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Movie Reviews of New York Doll
Movie Review: Doll Redux Redemption
Summary: 5 Stars
Many great reasons abound to watch the film "New York Doll," about the weirdo world of Arthur Kane. It's an accurate documentary on a difficult subject with which to be objective: the post-rock-stardom life of a well known musician who bottomed out without financial success. Kane had been by far the weirdest individual of one of America's weirdest bands after all.
It provides the only cool footage of Kane's band, the legendary USA glamsters of the early 1970's The New York Dolls, besides Bob Gruen's excellent, exhaustively documented "All Dolled Up."
It's a true bridge between organized religion and rock & roll craziness, the Apollonian/Dionysian ideal, insofar as the filmmaker, a fellow Mormon like the film's subject, had to travel the same psychic distance to understand Kane as Kane had to in order to understand his newly embraced religion.
It shows the New York Dolls reunion in London's 2004 Meltdown, fun in itself, with footage of an astonishing insight of understanding backstage. Flamboyantly extroverted lead singer David Johansen immediately intuits that he's gone too far teasing Kane about the latter's newly embraced religion, instantaneously does an about face, backs off and joins in Kane's pre-gig band prayer. I like this.
Kane passed away within days of the reunion. Luckily this testament to his redemption remains.
Movie Review: Wonderful insightful Don't miss this.
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes you come across a movie by accident which you know very little about and are blown away by it.
That is New York Doll.
No one could have written a movie like this and filmed it as fiction. It wouldn't have worked. It would have been too quirky, too bizarre to be believed. A fictional Arthur would be impossible. But because it is real and true and because Arthur talks about his life in the two completely different worlds he has inhabited in his guileless and humble way, you are immediately drawn in.
Punk, fast living, sex, drugs, and rock and roll meets calm devout abstemious Mormonism. Sounds like a movie to pass on doesn't it. But if you do it will be your loss. The movie isn't preachy, it doesn't push either lifestyle it just is what it is. If you don't have an emotional response to this movie regardless of where you fit in lifes spectrum you need to go see a specialist.
This movie is a complete gem. Is the sound always perfect? No. Could it have been shot and cut differently? I guess. Im not really into that stuff so I don't know what I would have done differently. Does this movie work? Absolutely.
I predict it will have a life far into the future as more and more people buy the DVD and show it to their friends. It's addictive. Every so often I have to watch it again.
Movie Review: Loving Arthur
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw the Dolls in NYC from their earliest days until they crashed and burned shortly after the Red Patent Leather gigs at the Little Hippodrome. In all those years, I can't recall hearing Arthur put together so much as one sentence. I came across this documentary on Pay Per View, and given my history with the Dolls couldn't not watch it. At one point in his life, it was widely rumored that Arthur had died from alcoholism. Obviously not true. Throughout this film, he comes across as a gentle, kind, wryly funny man who'd achieved some peace and tranquility in his life. Save for one unfinished piece of business - making amends with David Johansen and playing on stage with the N.Y. Dolls one more time. That Morrissey managed to reunite the band, and give Arthur the chance to live his unfulfilled dream, is very moving. Arthur sitting in a hotel room in England, marveling at the furniture and the comfort of the room, shows a man who had come to inhabit a state of gratitude. That he returned from that triumphant gig and passed on two weeks later is not nearly as sad as you might think. You can truly say he died a happy man, at peace with himself and the world. A beautiful film about a beautiful man. Very inspirational for anyone who has struggled with addictions or longed for spiritualism in a complex world. RIP Arthur, Billy, Johnny, Jerry.Movie Review: WAY more than I expected!
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all, I thought I had heard of the New York Dolls before I saw this movie, but I had no idea who they were. I certainly didn't realize the impact that they had on popular music. So from that point of view it was interesting to see that glam rock and punk both can trace their lineage directly to 'The Dolls'. It is really amazing how many bands these guys influenced in their short meteoric career.
But that's not the point of this movie. What could have been a compelling 'Behind The Music' episode turned into so much more as the director shot this movie. The filmmakers got lucky - this story about an aging rock star transcends into a tale of humanity right before your eyes.
I don't want to talk about what happens because that would ruin the experience. When the movie started and I met Arthur "Killer" Kane on a Los Angeles city bus, I was oddly intrigued. Kane has a strange, gentle way about him, and a soft spokenness that makes you watch. During that bus ride, Arthur had no idea where his life was about to go, and neither did I.
The great thing about this movie is that you take the journey with Arthur. It's a journey everyone should take.
Movie Review: one of my favorite moves ever
Summary: 5 Stars
If anyone knows New York City, you know that the two boots cinema is the place to see the coolest movies. i caught Dr. strangelove ther last sunday and am going to see Primer on the big screen next week. It is fitting that this is where New York Dolls played in Manhattan. NY Doll is one of those movies that is destined to be a classic. The main subject of the documentary - Arthur Kane, the bass player for the seminal rock band the New York Dolls - has got to be one of the most watchable people ever put on film. He is just compelling and weird and touching and tragic and inspiring....seriously, you could not make up a guy like Arthur Kane. I'm sure this movie becomes one of those late night weekend cult classics, but the reason I came to Amazon was to order a copy to show my Grandma. That's the crazy thing about this movie: it is about rock and roll and drug/alcohol addiction, and excess and tragedy - but it is a family film. I doubt that there is any swearing in the movie and someone I met outside the theater told me it was a big hit with religious people in Utah - ehich somehow makes it more 'punk' in my mind. killer movie about "killer kane".