Alice's Restaurant

Devastating portrait of the American Sixities counter-culture faced with responsibilities and realities of personal relationships and the need for social structures to spread the burdens of life and to provide support. The failure of Alice's Restaurant is a bit like the…

Silversaxophone

Coming in at 111 minutes, the movie is only slightly longer than the song.

Xeremy Hall 🟠🟢🔵

Forget Easy Rider: Alice's Restaurant is the quintessential countercultural film of the 1960s. Where the former film emphasized the coolness and freedom of bucking the system, Alice's Restaurant reflects on the intimacy, the artistry, the simplicity and utter…

Jake Moran

Warm, open, funny. The best kind of shaggy movie, it might be hit and miss but every succesful realized scene more than make up for the weaker ones. It often gets compared to Easy Rider, as 1969 movies about counterculture, but as long as you care for aesthetics more than…

Filipe Furtado

The first chunk of this was fun until we realized there was still an hour and 20 minutes left. If it had ended with the draft dodging scene, where the song it’s based on ends, it would’ve been a fun, campy 60s counterculture film. But instead it became... whatever this…

Charlie

So, what I like to do on the night before Thanksgiving every year is wait till everybody’s in bed and the house is dark and quiet and then open a bottle of whatever’s around and throw on my DVD of THE LAST WALTZ. I never log it on LB, because I don’t really “watch” it per…

Superargo

Arlo Guthrie is my fav nepotism baby

Grace Szostak

Although lacking a direct message, and definitely 20 minutes too long, Alice’s Restaurant is a really unique slice of life movie. Released soon after Woodstock, I think it was clear to many that the hippie subculture was dying. The party was over, and now everyone had to…

Abbie

As someone who (ashamedly?) romanticizes the 1960’s and the counterculture movement, this kinda hurt lol. A devastating view of a dream, utopia gone awry— not overtly, perhaps, but beneath it all. I didn’t look at it this way until the very end, I think I was caught up with…

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