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New York Doll.

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New York Doll. DVD. Directed by Greg Whiteley. Universal City, CA: Visual Entertainment, 2005. F10130. $19.98.

Be forewarned, this is not a typical "rock-umentary" in the fashion of MTV or VH1. This is a comprehensive and deeply moving story about not only the group, the New York Dolls, but one individual's quest to live once more in his glorious past. This is neither a straight documentary nor is it a glamorized saga of the punk movement nor is it a singularly focused story of Arthur "Killer" Kane (the bass player from the New York Dolls); it is all of these things. Arthur Kane is a loveable, yet tragic character who was used up and left out to dry by the always turbulent world of rock music.

This film was produced out of a love of punk rock music. Its purpose is to shed light on one of the most influential punk bands that gave birth to the movement. The director, Greg Whiteley, had an audience of now aging punk and rock 'n' roll music fans in mind when he came up with the idea to create this film. The target audience is, but not limited to, pre-MTV-generation music fans. Those who would most enjoy the film are the underground music lovers dating from the late '60s and early '70s and those who have ever loved '80s metal and punk rock. This film is an important history lesson even for those fans of music today (since the New York Dolls exercised a tremendous influence over all of the present rock genres in their own way) and is especially worth watching for its pop culture history factor. In addition to its cultural significance it is...

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