The Unsettling Stories of Two Lonely Dolls
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Many women have discovered that they share an intense ambivalence, part warm and fuzzy nostalgia, part chilling discomfort, about "The Lonely Doll," first published in 1957.
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They have lived for 200 years between them, but Sweden's oldest pair of twins had never seen anything like this before. Holding up a birthday cake and two bouquets of flowers, Siri Ingvarsson and Gunhild Gaellstedt seemed bewildered by the number of photographers huddled around them in the living room of Gaellstedt's Stockholm apartment earlier this week.
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âThe Decomposition of the Soulâ tackles the unsettling topic of the East German Stasi in a way that might make your flesh crawl.
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At a clinic for anorexia sufferers, I found real girls behind the sensationalized images of this tragic disorder.
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Three New York theater productions offer contrasting coming-of-age tales.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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How soaps that look like little hands connect with the contradictory attractions of novelty and familiarity.
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A bizarre psychological study of degeneration and dependency, âThe Living and the Deadâ is a horror movie only in the most literal sense.
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The mother of conjoined twins who have now been separated grapples with medical needs and new identities.
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Are dolls, blocks and stuffed animals fading away in favor of electronic gadgets, and is childhood fading with them?
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The concept of slipping between dimensions fried my tiny mind as a kid after reading the Victorian satire, Flatland. Super Paper Mario and Crush turn the Flatland conceit into a piece of gameplay.
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There is plenty of sorrow to be found in âInto the Wild.â But though the filmâs structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.
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Floors creak and doors slam. Hidden passages lead to secret compartments. Ratty old dolls show up out of nowhere.
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âRails & Tiesâ is so self-consciously unadorned that it feels as if its director didnât want us to think that she was trying to make a cinematic statement. She hasnât.
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Actresses Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn never seem quite at home in their roles in this strangely uninvolving new production at the Royale Theater.
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A silent cinema revival glories in black-and-white imagery and rich live music for postmodern tales. It makes an "unfilmable" Lovecraft classic a piece of cake. By John Brownlee.
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There is nary a shriek, of either humor or horror, in this musicalâs drably earnest two hours of throaty sturm und drang.