Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

February 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 47

Total Comments: 35

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New York Doll / USA / 2005

Usually a 75-minute documentary barely has time to say anything. In the case of Greg Whiteley’s New York Doll, though, we’re given the story of two men: A former rock star yearning for the glory and excitement of the past, and an aging Mormon seemingly content with his three-days-a-week job. They’re both the same man, of course—Arthur “Killer” Kane of the New York Dolls.

Whiteley’s documentary is extraordinary, not just in its style and originality, but in its subject. Arthur Kane, whose past is checkered by bouts of drug abuse, violence, and a suicide attempt, is unbelievably pleasant. Barely surviving on disability, he finds joy in riding the bus and regaling old nuns with lectures on bass-playing. It’s a surprising and heartwarming glimpse into life after fame.

by Adam Balz | Source: 35mm print
25 Feb 2006 3:33 PM | Submit Comment

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