Word: arlo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Restaurant: God, it's positively embarassing to see this movie in the late '70's. The whole peace and love and macrame-in-the-Berkshires generation never looked so damn silly. It's not necessarily that generation's fault--this is just a very bogus movie which even Arlo regretts making, since it uses the rather dubious device of a dying Woody Guthrie to serve as young Arlo's motivation to grow up and resist the draft, the squares, and all the rest of the unbeautiful things in the world. You will be amazed at how dated this film looks...
...find a way to get up to Sugarbush Valley in Vermont, you'll want to see Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie...
...tenth anniversary of everything," as it was described, Richie Havens and Arlo Guthrie wailed protest songs. Daniel Ellsberg, Daniel Berrigan, Eugene McCarthy and Cesar Chavez spoke out against nuclear warfare. This blast from the past drew 10,000 people to the Hollywood Bowl for "Survival Sunday-a Festival for a Future," sponsored by 60 religious and political groups. Its aim? To support the United Nations' first special session on disarmament, which opened last week. Ellsberg said the meeting's goal was "to save the earth and everything that lives on it." Jesuit Priest Berrigan was not sanguine about...
Alice's Restaurant. Arthur Penn does a nice job of turning Arlo Guthrie's half-hour-long ballad, about hanging out in western Massachusetts and ingeniously resisting the draft, into a loose, rambling, amiable film. The first half works particularly well. The second half drags on a bit too long and is broken by some incongruously depressing sequences, but the movie still remains one of the best film portraits of what life was like for the draft-board-baiting bohemian back-packers...
Alice's Restaurant. Arthur Penn does a nice job of turning Arlo Guthrie's half-hour long ballad about hanging out in western Massachusetts and ingeniously resisting the draft, into a loose, rambling, amiable film. The first half works particularly well. The second half drags on a bit too long and is broken by some inconguously depressing sequences, but the movie still remains one of the best film portraits of what life was like for the draft-board-baiting bohemian back-packers...