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The link below will take you directly to the product on Amazon.  If you are using an adblocker you will not see link.

 
 
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"You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant...you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, now walk right in, it's around the back...just about a mile from the railroad track...you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant!!!" Arlo Guthrie's theme song has stuck in my mind for the past 46 years... :P
 

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Haven't seen it since original release.


There is a restaurant on Skyline Boulevard just above the San Francisco Bay called Alice's Restaurant, and it kind of reminds me of the movie.


Took the link and one-clicked at Amazon.
 

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The closing tracking shot, however Penn and Dede Allen did it, has remained magical in my memory since my first viewing when it first played in 1969.
 

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At the time ALICE'S RESTAURANT came out in the late 60's, that last shot seemed to me similar to the shot of the church tower stairs in VERTIGO; in other words, tracking backwards while zooming in. Emotionally, this technique seems to express the inner state of Alice at the end of the film, who is looking backward in her mind's eye of all she is leaving behind while determined to move on.
 

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lark144 said:
At the time ALICE'S RESTAURANT came out in the late 60's, that last shot seemed to me similar to the shot of the church tower stairs in VERTIGO; in other words, tracking backwards while zooming in. Emotionally, this technique seems to express the inner state of Alice at the end of the film, who is looking backward in her mind's eye of all she is leaving behind while determined to move on.
Exactly!
 

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