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	Dolls (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dolls (Japanese: ドールズ) is a 2002 film directed by the Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano.
		The film leads into it by opening with a performance of Bunraku theatre, and closes with a shot of dolls from the same.
		Because the rest of the film itself (as Kitano himself has said) can be treated as Bunraku in film form, the film is quite symbolic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dolls_(movie) (300 words)

	Mediajonez.com: FILM - Review: Dolls (2003)
		Although not a martial arts or yakuza film (genres he explores frequently), Dolls is an exploration of the human condition, particularly undying love and permanent loss.
		The film gains a dreamlike quality that is hypnotically paced, although it does drag a bit toward the end.
		Dolls is a unique film that strays from conventional romantic depictions and digs into the depths of human love.
	www.mediajonez.com /film/review-dolls0405.html (616 words)

	Dollmaker's Community College - Techniques for Dollmakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If you shot your doll against a colored background and the colors seem strange, the culprit may be machine averaging again—this time averaging of colors instead of dark and light.
		Only one or two dolls should be in a single picture unless the purpose of the picture is to show the relationship of the dolls in a group.
		Group shots are only suitable for a family of dolls, for a dramatic scene or diarama, or when the same basic doll is shown with a variety of costumes.
	www.mimidolls.com /DCC-Techniques/Photography/PHOTO.HTM (3626 words)

	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite its title, it is not a sequel to the novel or film versions of Valley of the Dolls, but a satirical pastiche inspired by the original.
		It is one of two films produced by independent filmmaker Meyer for 20th Century Fox (the other being The Seven Minutes), and one of three films that film critic Ebert wrote with Meyer.
		The film's plot concerns the adventures and misadventures of an all-female rock band called The Carrie Nations (after temperance advocate Carrie Nation), who fall under the spell of a flamboyant, evil record producer (modelled after Phil Spector) named Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell (John LaZar).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls (294 words)

	The John Williams Web Pages: Valley of the Dolls
		A film career in Hollywood leads her to an addiction to pills (the "dolls" of the title) and booze, she ruins two marriages and ends up in a sanitarium.
		With this film he moved from being typecast as a composer of comedy scores (Fitzwilly was the last of these, released at virtually the same time) to a shorter period as a sort of music director (adapting scores for the musicals Goodbye, Mr.
		Duke was not a singer, and an uncredited vocalist dubbed her songs both in the film and on the album.
	www.johnwilliams.org /compositions/valleyofthedolls.html (1433 words)

	Dolls
		"Dolls" bookends a trio of sad love stories with the 300 year-old Japanese art of Bunraku puppetry—a tradition whose stories are steeped in the tragedies of romantic love.
		While "Dolls" is a visually stunning film, with kudos to cinematographer Katsumi Yanagishima, it is difficult to feel any emotional involvement with these somewhat bizarre characters.
		Clearly their role is heavily symbolic but the weight of that and the inordinate amount of screen time devoted to their endless wandering took away from the film for me and acted as a sedative for many in my audience.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/D_2005/dolls.htm (476 words)

	Asian Cinema Drifter - Dolls Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dolls seems to be one of those experimental projects from an instantly encompassing inspiration (in this case being the Bunraku puppets) that leaves the viewer overwhelmed in determining the depth of the filmmaker's intent.
		Dolls tells the three love stories of flawed relationships tied together by the dominating tale regarding a groom-to-be’s return to a past love he mistreated.
		Dolls is an oddly divisive film that can’t be regarded as love/hate yet sends off those vibes.
	www.acdrifter.com /?page=Review&movie=Dolls (736 words)

	DOLLS - CANADIAN EDITION DVD
		The decision to make a film that is all subtext, however, is seldom successful: such pictures tend towards the pretentious for one, and in emptying the basement, logic follows, they leave the basement empty.
		So it is with Dolls, which says everything it has to say, leaving only the speculation upon a repeat viewing (if one is necessary or desired) for how personal a project this might have been for Kitano and ultimately what this film tells us about the rest of Kitano's films.
		Thus yoked, they walk through the film's gorgeous landscapes: carpets of red leaves, snowscapes vast and frigid, train tracks that are in appearance and function the sutures that ravel the disparate regions of the film and Japan together.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/dolls.htm (777 words)

	The enigma of 5 DOLLS
		Both films depict a small group of people in an isolated house by the sea (the Menliff castle and and the Stark beach house were mounted on the same cliff at Tor Caldara, as noted by Tim Lucas in his commentary for VCI's THE WHIP AND THE BODY disc).
		In 5 DOLLS, the scientist Gerry Farrell (or Frick Hangel, as he is called in the Italian version!), who murdered his colleague, is invited to a house by the sea.
		Besides, if the characterizations (or lack thereof) were to be changed, the film would not be the mysterious, wacky movie that it is. And we don't have to care about the characters, in the sense that we care if they live or die, as they'll all magically return when we watch the film again.
	www.members.tripod.com /~mariobava/fivemisc.htm (1362 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Dolls
		Dolls opens with a brief bunraku performance of a scene from The Courier of Hell that ends with the puppet couple, Umegawa and Chubei, staring into the camera before a transition into the story of the bound beggars.
		The world of the film cycles inexorably from spring, to summer, to fall, to winter, bolstering the sense of entropy that defines the relationships between the characters.
		Dolls is the sort of film that demands that viewers calibrate themselves to its sensibilities.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/dolls.php (1496 words)

	Japanese Dolls: Introduction
		Dolls, for which the broadest term is ningyo (`written with two characters, meaning "human figure''), have a spiritual significance; they seal friendships, protect or purify those who use them, and help young girls and boys explore their roles in society.
		Dolls allowed civilian women to feel they were part of the war, and pilots to feel they were supported; and, later, allowed families to mourn the boys who had died without marriage and children.
		Oharu's period as a lord's concubine in Edo (about halfway through the film) culminates with the birth of a son; during this time, she attends a bunraku puppet performance emphasizing a wife's jealousy, which is brief but vivid, and gives birth in a room decorated by a gigantic Gosho doll and a treasure-ship.
	web.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/intro.htm (1474 words)

	Dolls (2004): Reviews
		Dolls isn't a film for everybody, especially the impatient, but Kitano does succeed, I think, in drawing us into his tempo and his world, and slowing us down into the sadness of his characters.
		Dolls is an art film, and a languid, inexplicably haunting one at that.
		Dolls risks the bank on symbology as gaudy as teen anime and as heavy as a stone temple.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dolls (558 words)

	Girls' Day Dolls
		The film consists of a number of short fantastic episodes, and the second one allows a small boy a vision of five complete sets of hina, like the ones his sister is displaying, come to life and dancing for him because of his sorrow at the loss of the family peach orchard.
		The Nagashi-bina ritual still exists at some Japanese shrines; a boatload of dolls (big display dolls, not paper dolls) is sent to sea on March 3 in connection with the Awashima Shrine of Wakayama Prefecture, a shrine particularly important for women, who pray there for good fortune in marriage and childbirth.
		Burning Dolls in Ueno Park is a "traveler's tale" of stumbling upon the annual September 25 ceremony in Tokyo.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/hina.htm (1241 words)

	Lightsfade - iconoclastic horror reviews mainly
		Her friend soon realises that the dolls who share the house with their creators are now very much alive and seeking vengeance.
		These pantomime conventions add to the charm and place our allegiances with the unworldly doll makers who represent the basic decency and wonder of childhood as opposed to the grasping and repressive world of adulthood.
		Dolls is a neat, quixotic, and at only 77 minutes, short film.
	www.lightsfade.com /reviews/dolls.htm (469 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Dolls (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In his new film "Dolls," he makes his longest journey from his action-film roots, into a land of three tragic relationships.
		Elaborate dolls are moved about the stage, each one with two or three artists to manipulate their eyes, heads, arms.
		Kitano's film opens with a bunraku performance, and then segues into the first of three live-action stories in which the characters seem moved about the stages of their own lives, without wills of their own.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050203/REVIEWS/50127003/1023 (671 words)

	Guys and Dolls!: From Stage to Screen
		The title song is a break in the action and three of our gamblers comment on other guys falling in love. For the film they put Nathan Detroit amongst the singers where he strangely has to change the sons tense from third to first. I do feel the vocal stylings of Mr.
		Written for the film and for Sinatra to sing, This unimpressive number is a marriage proposal between Nathan and Adelaide.
		The musical of Guys and Dolls is such a theatrical sensation that it is no wonder they pushed it to the big screen. Still, I wish they put a bit more time and focus into the production.
	www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/Studio/8849/Moviemusicals/Obediah/GuysAndDolls.htm (738 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dolls [2003]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dolls is a film of extraordinary beauty and tenderness from a filmmaker chiefly associated with grave mayhem and deadpan humor.
		This Japanese film is probably the most disturbing and disquieting film I have seen in many months or even years, and yet also one of the most Japanese films I have ever admired and enjoyed, that naturally came from Japan.
		These symbolical elements that run through the film are extremely difficult to capture, and yet the eye picks them, recognizes them and it is quite a pleasure to shift from one situation to the next without a complete break, with a constant reference from one to the others.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000C665I (1410 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| 'You can't tell what I'm going to do next'
		The title refers to the dolls of traditional Japanese bunraku theatre, who bookend the film and inform its slightly mannered, fairy-tale story of a pair of star-crossed lovers driven mad by the vagaries of fate and wandering through a picture-postcard Japan bound together by a red silken cord.
		The lovers in the film are inspired by a pair of beggars from Kitano's suburb of Tokyo who similarly spent their days tied together - Kitano calls them "the bound beggars".
		More familiar to both sets of audiences, and especially to anyone who's seen Kitano's previous films, will be the subplot in which an ageing yakuza boss returns to the park bench where he abandoned his girlfriend forty years previously, to find that she has been forlornly bringing him a packed lunch every Sunday ever since.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,966251,00.html (1445 words)

	Video Review @ Stomp Tokyo - Guys and Dolls (1955)
		And one of the major pleasures of Guys and Dolls is having your expectations fulfilled, and the wit and style with which it happens.
		The doll in question is Sergeant Sarah Brown of the Save-a-Soul Mission, a particularly unsuccessful evangelist (despite being played by the ever-radiant Jean Simmons) Sarah Brown is constantly buttoning and unbuttoning her blouse button, particularly in the presence of Marlon Brando, a habit that the greatest minds in psychoanalysis would fail to decipher.
		The rest of the plot of Guys and Dolls is at this stage probably eminently predictable to the average moviegoer.
	www.stomptokyo.com /guests/g/guys-and-dolls.html (708 words)

	Takeshi Kitano's Dolls
		The 1969 film, Shinju ten no amijima (Double Suicide) also begins in a Bunraku theater, and takes its plot from a different Chikamatsu play, performed by actors in a stylized period setting; it is the play come to life, and the occasional glimpses of lurking puppeteers suggest a dimension of fate in everyday life.
		Dolls, like a Bunraku play, centers on two young lovers, about to be torn apart by a marriage arranged for the boy.
		Dolls is, then, a considerable departure, though he has commented that the passions in this film have their own violence.
	www.jadejapandolls.com /kitano.html (850 words)

	Really Scary: Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence Gallery & News
		At the end of the film, the hero, Major Motoko Kusanagi, abandons her technologically enhanced body or “shell” to become pure soul or “ghost,” and disappears into cyberspace.
		The film also marks a blend of traditional and computer animation, with all the characters drawn in 2D animation, and all the machinery and backgrounds rendered entirely in 3D animation.
		That doll became an inspiration for the villain in the film, Kim.
	www.reallyscary.com /ghostshell.asp (1558 words)

	The Doll
		Before the month was over I sent her the first dolls with a letter describing my family and why we all worked together to make dolls.
		As the story of the Esslinger family and their struggle to accept the death of Kathy is woven throughout the film, so too is the story of the use of dolls in accepting the many problems we face in life.
		Lee is so dedicated to doll makers and she had not even been a doll collector until the "bug" bit her at Doll Makers Magic.
	www.drusilla.com /TheDoll.htm (1187 words)

	CREEM ONLINE: Sylvain Sylvain — Confessions Of A Doll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Well, New York Doll does its part to set the record straight by telling the story of one of the most overlooked members of one of the most overlooked bands in the annals of rock 'n' roll—Dolls bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane.
		In fact, the amusing contrasts the film draws are one of its greatest strengths—Arthur's outrageously over-the-top look from the past compared to his mild-mannered look of today, his life on the stage compared to his work at the library, his wild and woolly rock 'n' roll cohorts compared to his straight-laced Mormon compatriots.
		The scene with Arthur and gruff-voiced Dolls singer David Johansen discussing the Ten Commandments and the finer points of Mormonism backstage while Johansen puffs on a cigarette is priceless, as is the scene where Arthur arrives at the Royal Marriott in London for the Dolls' first reunion show in decades.
	www.creemmagazine.com /BeatGoesOn/NewYorkDolls/ConfessionsOfADoll0510.html (1656 words)

	\| dso \| video \| film reviews \| Dolls (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dolls is an art house film that makes me think script guru Robert McKee was right to say art house is a genre with its own set rules.
		Dolls has all the right elements: minimal plot, various storylines told out of sequence, lots of silent standing around.
		This is a slow film that is infuriating at first: the pieces make little sense.
	www.darkstarorg.demon.co.uk /fr287.htm (319 words)

	Dolls (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kitano claimed that it became to expensive to hire him for soundtracks.
		from Queens, NY "Dolls" is a gripping lesson in film as a visual medium, even when exploring territory that Beckett and Bergman handled verbally.
		Takeshi Kitano wrote, directed and edited with astonishing beauty and poignancy, way beyond the audience pleasing romp of "Zatôichi: The Blind Swordsman." With minimal dialog, he is in a great partnership with the breathtaking cinematography of Katsumi Yanagishima, which uses seasonal changes as powerful visual and emotional metaphors as did "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0330229 (397 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Dolls directed by Director: Takeshi Kitano - reviewed by Ingo Ebeling
		Dolls tells three love stories interwoven with each other, although the theme is loose, more atmospheric than thematic.
		However, these situations are softened by the film being framed by traditional Japanese Bunraku puppet play, which suggests that everybody is a puppet, a doll.
		Dolls is Kitano's quietest and most accomplished film so far.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/dolls.php (768 words)

	Monsters At Play: Dolls Review
		Not just one killer doll though, many, many, many creepy as hell killer dolls inhabit this film, and creepy is definitely the word.
		These dolls are viscous as they slice and dice their way through the guests, with your standard killing utensils, as well as using some unconventional murderous techniques.
		Don't worry, the jester doll DOES use a power drill in case you were wondering.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/d/dolls.php (830 words)

	/FILM - DVD Review: The Dresden Dolls: The Paradise
		The Dresden Dolls, pioneers in Punk Cabaret, have come out with a DVD recounting their exploits at The Paradise in Boston after their spring tour with Nine Inch Nails.
		This DVD is the closest thing to the passionate punch-in-the-face experience you'd get at one of their lives shows.
		Lydon interviews the Dolls with questions flung from the audience, before acting as ringmaster for the rest of the evening.
	www.slashfilm.com /article.php/20051120204005295 (832 words)

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