Alice’s Restaurant
Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2009
(Arthur Penn, USA, 1969, 35mm, 111 min)
Following his 1967 breakout hit film Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn co-wrote and directed this relaxed portrait of hippie culture and gentle lament to the end of the counterculture revolution. The film is based on Arlo Guthrie's famous, rambling folk song recounting a true but comically exaggerated Thanksgiving adventure, and stars Guthrie himself as a wandering soul perplexed by the strange contradictions of Vietnam-era America.