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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She was a small-town girl, a Playboy pinup, a gold digger and a reality TV star. She lived her dream, then died in a lonely hotel room. The rapid rise and tawdry fall of an American oddity.
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Films about social issues  usually exude the deadly aura of good intention and earnest  edification, but Damian Harris zones in on his characters in  "Gardens of the Night." The film gives vivid reality to those  photos of disappeared children on milk cartons by letting us  peek into the lives of two abducted children subjected to  sexual abuse and then prostitution.
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A moody thriller about an unhappily married couple, a remote cabin and a pair of homicidal crazies.
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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.
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Eerie, muddled and gorgeous, âKhadakâ tells the story of an epileptic Mongolian sheepherder who embraces his destiny as a shaman when his village is threatened.
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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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HBOâs movie on one of Britainâs most notorious serial killers is a chilling, but also strangely affecting portrait of her bizarre 30-year friendship with an aristocrat.
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In the case of Doris  Duke and Bernard Lafferty, little is known but much is  imagined. Thanks to the part that is imagined, HBO's "Bernard  and Doris" emerges as a sensitive study of two forlorn souls  with little in common but a growing dependence on each other.
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Two psychoanalysts became friends after bad facelift operations, and wrote a book about their experiences.
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Two women reach out to each other from opposite sides of the socioeconomic divide in Jeffrey M. Togman's marvelously revealing documentary about the psychology of poverty.
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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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Barbie dolls may not be selling, but BarbieGirls.com is.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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Arts & entertainment: Jason Cowley traces the story of the mental and spiritual decline of a gifted writer and close friend
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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Three New York theater productions offer contrasting coming-of-age tales.