ALICE'S RESTAURANT -- Arthur Penn, dir

©1969
studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
production company: Florin
director: Arthur Penn
cast: Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays
screenplay: Venable Herndon from Arlo Guthrie's song

Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience but it haunts him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft. [from IMDb.com]

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I liked it. I'd never seen it before, though was certainly familiar with the song. Overall, though, I really enjoyed it. I thought I got a pretty accurate description of a paricular group of people from the 60's era (a slightly different group than that in Easy Rider). I was enaged and amused thoughout the film.

I also couldn't help but think that Arlo sure appeared young. He struck me quite a bit as a 'kid' rather than being the worldly-wise folk artist.

A fun film, glad to have watched it.

MR. AND MRS. SMITH --Doug Liman, dir

©2005
production comapny: Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Weed Road Pictures, Epsilon Motion Pictures
studio: 20th Century Fox
director: Doug Liman
cast: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington
screenplay: Simon Kinberg

A bored married couple learn that they are actually both spies, working for competing companies, and currently hired to kill each other.

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I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I'm quite sure it wasn't this.

I thought that there'd be a story and some acting involved, but really this was just another shoot-em-up film with two 'hot' actors who don't have to do much except look good for the camera.

I sat through it, truly expecting it to get better at any moment.

What a waste of my time.