When: March 18,2009 at 8p.m.
Where: 480 Kilgo St. Atl, GA 30322
ALICE'S RESTAURANT (Arthur Penn, United States, color, 1969, 111 min.)
A time-capsule of the collapsing counterculture, Alice’s Restaurant may best be described as psychedelic realism: Arlo Guthrie stars as Arlo who is in turn the central figure in Arlo Guthrie’s rambling story-song of the same name, a hapless hippie kid whose fairly innocent act of illegal dumping lands him in jail, in court, in church, and finally in uniform. Directed by Arthur Penn, of Bonnie & Clyde fame (who was nominated for an Oscar for it), the film also includes found locations, non-actors, communes, folk-rock, interracial romance, cop-baiting, draft-bashing, demonstrations, drug use, and Pete Seeger. It is fair to say the film is less a committed social statement than a calculated effort to cash in on the late ‘60s scene, but Alice’s Restaurant is still about as far out as mainstream Hollywood ever dared to get.
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