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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Martin Scorsese, 1974

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Romance / Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Written by Robert Getchell

Cinematography Kent L. Wakeford

Edited by Marcia Lucas

Cast Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel, Diane Ladd, Lelia Goldoni, Billy Green Bush, Jodie Foster

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Ben Mankiewicz

“I want to start with the Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, with Ellen Burstyn. She was coming off The Exorcist, had tremendous power in Hollywood. She got to pick her director. She called Francis Ford Coppola, asking for a 'Who’s a hot young filmmaker who could understand this?' And he mentioned this guy Martin Scorsese. And it has a great soundtrack, because it’s a Martin Scorsese film, and it opens with 'All the Way from Memphis,' Mott the Hoople.”