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DVD Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Having scored a critical triumph with Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese accepted Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as his first big-studio assignment, proving his versatility and further advancing his promising career. Hot off The Exorcist with her choice of projects at Warner Brothers, Ellen Burstyn sought a hot young talent (Scorsese was recommended by Francis Coppola) to direct Robert Getchell's fine, sensitive screenplay about Alice Wyatt, a newly-widowed 35-year-old lounge singer with a bratty 12-year-old son (Alfred Lutter) and a very uncertain future. Her pursuit of broken dreams lands her a waitressing job in an Arizona diner, where she befriends foul-mouthed Flo (Diane Ladd) and meets and falls in love with a divorced farmer (Kris Kristofferson). With absolute authenticity of emotion and incident, Alice--which earned Burstyn a well-deserved Oscar® and features supporting roles for future Taxi Driver costars Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel--conveys a then-timely sense of strength and endurance from a single mother in desperate times. There have been several similar dramas made since 1974, but Alice (which inspired the popular TV sitcoms Alice and Flo) is still the best. Trivia buffs: Look closely for Ladd's daughter--a very young Laura Dern--and Scorsese as background extras in the diner scenes. --Jeff Shannon
This film is atypical of director Scorsese's work, a world away from the urban, ethnic male preserves of "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas." Yet the personal, heartfelt quality of "Alice" makes it one of my favorite Scorsese outings. Singer/actor Kris Kristofferson is appealingly mellow as Alice's laconic, no-nonsense boyfriend. Burstyn won Oscar, deservedly, and Diane Ladd (Laura Dern's mom) is also terrific as Alice's straight-talking waitress pal. Also look for a young, precocious Jodie Foster in a pre-"Taxi Driver" role.
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There are more laughs, cries, struggles, heartaches, and lessons packed into this one-woman-on-the-road show than just about any other movie you have seen. It reveals the escapism and yearning inherent to rural southwestern life. This is an excellent film from the earlier career days of distinquished directors and actors. You can certainly understand the Best Actress award that went to Ellen. A pre-teenage Jodie Foster is a bonus. Just about everyone that sees it loves this movie classic.
An amazing film..
This film was such an amazing character study. Ellen Burstyn's performance is astonishing! It was no surprise that she won an Academy Award for her work. The film is about a newly single mother and her 11 year old son (turns 12 during the course of the film). In the beginning they just can't seem to settle down in one place, they move a number of times. They even shared a motel room for a while. Burstyn's character is an aspiring singer who plays piano as well. Even though she's pretty good, she still has alot of trouble finding work as a singer. In order to get by she takes a job as a waitress, where in turn she meets a man that changes everything. Even though they have their relationship issues, he is who we hope she'll end up with. I won't say anymore about what takes place, because I may give away too much to those who haven't seen the film yet. It is an amazing film, made in the mid-70's and it features one of Hollywood's most amazing actresses.. Ellen Burstyn in one of her best roles. Oh, and another major bonus is, it just happens to be a MARTIN SCORSESE picture. Need I say more? I will mention that the film spawned the hit show ALICE, which is based mostly on Alice and the diner.
After Martin Scorsese went to Hollywood in 1972 to direct the low-budget Boxcar Bertha for B-movie mogul Roger Corman, the young director showed the film to maverick director John Cassavetes and got an instant earful of urgent advice. "It's crap," said Cassavetes in no uncertain terms, "now go out and make something that comes from your heart." Scorsese took the advice and focused his energy on Mean Streets, a riveting contemporary film about low-life gangsters in New York's Little Italy that critic Pauline Kael would later call "a true original, and a triumph of personal filmmaking." Starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel in roles that announced their talent to the world, it set the stage for Scorsese's emergence as one of the greatest American filmmakers. Introducing... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro - Harvey Keitel Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: Released the 17 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If You Like Harvey Keitel; Your'll Love His Unchanging Talent In "This Historical Masterpiece Of New York City Life." As Martin Scorsese's Debut Film In 1968; Scorsese captures Italian Gang Life...Like No Other Director! I Grew Up In New York City And Can Tell You "This Is Real Film Making." More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Zina Bethune - Harvey Keitel Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: 17 August 2004
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This well-regarded cult film is a tense Kafka-esque tale concerning what happens to a likable computer guy who is in the wrong place at the wrong time in the city that never sleeps--New York. This is a New York infested with bizarre characters vividly brought to life by a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Griffin Dunne's wonderfully controlled comic performance as Paul Hackett is the glue that holds this increasingly surreal film together. Scorsese utilizes a full array of independent and underground film techniques, including special film speed manipulations, angles, and edits, deftly capturing the strange rhythms of an after-hours New York City. Many will find the jokes clever, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. Some, however, will find the film an excruciating series of staged... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Griffin Dunne - Rosanna Arquette Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: Released the 17 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Martin Scorsese's brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s in a major critics' poll at the end of the decade, and it's a knockout piece of filmmaking. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta (famously putting on 50 pounds for the later scenes), a man tormented by demons he doesn't understand and prone to uncontrollably violent temper tantrums and fits of irrational jealousy. He marries a striking young blond (Cathy Moriarty), his sexual ideal, and then terrorizes her with never-ending accusations of infidelity. Jake is as frightening as he is pathetic, unable to control or comprehend the baser instincts that periodically, and without warning, turn him into the rampaging beast of the title. But as Roman Catholic Scorsese sees... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro - Cathy Moriarty - Joe Pesci Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: Released the 08 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro - Jodie Foster - Cybill Shepherd DVD Release Date: Released the 15 June 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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