Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn has turned Arlo Guthrie's jaunty talking-blues hit of a couple of years back into a melancholy epitaph for an entire way of life. It is hard to imagine a more beautiful film than this-or a sadder...
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn has deepened and widened the scope of Arlo Guthrie's hilarious talking-blues record and transformed it into a melancholy epitaph for an entire way of life. Alternately funny and poignant, Alice's Restaurant may be the best film about young people ever made in this country...
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn has deepened and widened the scope of Arlo Guthrie's hilarious talking blues record and transformed it into a melancholy epitaph for a whole way of life. Alternately funny and poignant, Alice's Restaurant may be the best film about young people ever made in this country...
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) has transformed Arlo Guthrie's rambling, hilarious talking-blues record of a couple of seasons back into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era. With its combination of wild humor and lingering sadness, Restaurant is one of the most perceptive films about young people ever made in this country...
Though Pearson thrived on the vitriol in his professional life, in his private life he was a pleasant and gentle man, a Quaker with a sense of humor. For his epitaph, he said he would prefer not a remembrance of his fame as an enemy of rascals but of his less well-known role as the organizer of the Friendship Train, which sent $40 million worth of food to postwar France and Italy in 1947, and as the rebuilder of a Tennessee high school that was bombed...