New York Dolls: All Dolled Up and Lookin' Fine on Television
The New York Dolls get the Don't Look Back treatment in All Dolled Up, as husband and wife Nadya Gruen (née Beck) and Bob Gruen edit forty hours of footage they recorded in the original lineup's brief lifespan into a 95-minute documentary sans framing or narration.
I thought Don't Look Back was boring but historically important. All Dolled Up is boring but not historically important. Note that I'm not…
New York Dolls: All Dolled Up and Lookin' Fine on Television
The New York Dolls get the Don't Look Back treatment in All Dolled Up, as husband and wife Nadya Gruen (née Beck) and Bob Gruen edit forty hours of footage they recorded during the original lineup's brief lifespan into a 95-minute documentary sans framing or narration.
I thought Don't Look Back was boring but historically important. All Dolled Up is boring but not historically important. Note that I'm not…
Emilia Pérez is an innovative film. No, not in the ways that you are probably thinking; rather, it's because it may be the first songless musical.*
What Emilia Pérez has instead are numbers. They aren't song-and-dance numbers, they are chant-and-dance numbers. Sometimes they are just chants. (For the record, I have no problem with hip-hop. I'm not sure that what's in this movie counts as hip-hop.)
Oh, sure, every once in awhile a hint of melody may creep in, but…
"The business life of Elvis Presley" would be laughed out of a pitch meeting. So how is it that we ended up with a big-budget movie that is essentially that?
The decision to depict the life of Elvis from the perspective of his manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), is a mistake from which Elvis cannot recover. That Elvis, naïve in the ways of business, was taken advantage of and often pushed into poor choices is an important part of…
