the film that marks a path not taken in Scorsese’s career
- Written by Adrian Danks, Associate professor in Cinema and Media Studies, RMIT University
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, released on December 9 1974, is a fascinating composite of both 1970s New Hollywood and the legacy of the women-centred melodrama of the 1930s and ‘40s.
It is now mostly remembered as an early film directed by Martin Scorsese. But it was actually a project initiated by its lead actor, Ellen Burstyn,...