1974 Directed by Martin Scorsese
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
艾丽丝不在这里, 再见爱丽斯, 艾丽丝不再住在这里, 엘리스는 이제 여기 살지 않는다, Alice non abita più qui
my heart!! a beautiful and brutal and hilarious small story about finding the least offensive abusive asshole in a world so full of them that a "smile sweetie" feels like a gift...dunno if scorsese meant this to be a sweet, quiet tragedy and i don't know that he understands women and their romantic motivations, but miraculously he understands motherhood...tommy telling a bad joke so long and nonsensical that it makes alice cry from exhaustion is real as hell...
Not trying to start shit but it is unbelievably obvious who has and hasn’t seen this when they pop off about Scorsese.
you know when you immediately love a movie but then it strikes that perfect chord and you cry the whole way through not necessarily because it's that sad but just cuz it touched you real good? that moment happened right when ellen burstyn got on the piano for her singing gig audition -- as if i wasn't already charmed and heartbroken by the way she outfit repeats her best green dress and puts a band-aid on her shoe instead of directly on her heel (!) because she hasn't broken them in yet. i also love her dynamic with her son ("life's short" / "so are you") and the moment she has a breakthrough with diane ladd.
35mm. Metrograph.
A lovely and generous character study about a woman who had to reach middle age — and suffer tragedy — before she could become herself. If there’s a dominant theme, it is that even the best men can be (and are) burdens on the women around them.
that scene where tommy spends five minutes trying to tell a joke in such a complex way that it never even reaches the punchline but he is so determined to get the hilarity of it across that he refuses to stop trying... yeah...
An extraordinarily raw and intimate dissection of a character that emphasizes the beauty and motion within struggle but rarely portrays that struggle in a negative light as it’s deeply encouraging and realistically bright throughout. Following Alice’s journey through adulthood as she both searches for her occupation and directionless aura and the sense of raising a child who is stuck in the middle of the entire adventure is both incredibly compelling and emotionally relatable. This film not only captures the 70s in a much more authentic way by showcasing a truly human story about the female perspective but ultimately encourages its viewers to visit and enjoy other films from this decade as they can be more relevant than you’d expect.
Ellen…
"Okie dokie that's enough female representation for the next 50 years!"
-Scorsese after completing this probably
From director Martin Scorsese, cinema’s premiere poet of violence and reverting male insecurity into brutality as recourse, came in 1974… this women’s picture?
Ellen Burstyn was on a string of successes, so when Warner Bros. head John Calley asked her what project she’d like to do and with what director, Burstyn only had one script in mind by Robert Getchell but no director. Francis Coppola recommended Marty as a director; Burstyn saw “Mean Streets” immediately, was impressed but it had no women in it. Marty came in wound-up and nervous for the studio meeting, and there Burstyn asked him what he knew about women? “Nothing, but I’d like to learn.”
Scorsese opens up with a homage to “The Wizard of…
