Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Penn's newest film is in all important ways a sequel to his last. Only this time the heroes are not violent bank-robbers but potent, generous people with good minds and an ability to love. And the setting is not an America of depression but one of abundance...
...film's story, unlike that of Bonnie and Clyde. is almost non-existent; it revolves around the attempts of the alienated heroes to find community in and around a Stockbridge, Massachusetts church. And while Alice's Restaurant has the feel of a comedy (after all, it is based on Arlo Guthrie's humorous song. "Alice's Restaurant Massacre"), it is nonetheless one of the most depressing films of this year or any other. Love dope, sex, money, utopianism, political action-none of these phenomena can offer salvation to Arlo and his friends. And, unlike Easy Rider, this film does...
Penn's work on the film is nicely augmented by that of editor Dede Allen co-screenwriter Venable Herndon and actors Arlo, James Broderick and Pat Quinn. Pete Seeger is also on hand to remind us how little things have changed since his generation's attempt to find a better America...
TOPAZ. Alfred Hitchcock's newest film is hardly his most entertaining or suspenseful work, but still it stands as a monument to the vision, brilliance and sheer force of America's greatest working director. Hitchcock's visual narrative and moral stance dominate the picture from first shot to last-so much so, that one is oblivious to plot inanities inherited from the Leon Uris novel and the largely clodlike performances of the cast (Michacl Piccoli, Philippe Noirct and Rocoe Lee Browne excluded...
Torn: "I don't want to especially, but I will if you want me to." (Near the end of the film he will burn another girl. This will be one of the signs that he is Coming Apart...