Americana: Cinema Weekend at the Museum / Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974

Americana: Cinema Weekend at the Museum | A rich weekend of films inspired by the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: All Out / From the Marie and Jose Mugrabi Collection.
Artistic Director: Karin Rywkind Segal

The screenings will be accompanied by introductions from the Museum’s curators and guest lecturers.

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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

USA, 1974 | Director: Martin Scorsese | Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster | 112 min., English with Hebrew subtitles

In this singular work by Martin Scorsese, the young widow Alice (Ellen Burstyn) sets out with her son Tommy (Alfred Lutter III) on a journey across the American Southwest toward California, determined to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. Along the way, she gradually learns to shape her life on her own terms, even as a relationship with a rugged rancher (Kris Kristofferson) puts her newfound independence to the test. Burstyn, who was deeply involved in the film’s development, delivers a performance of remarkable emotional depth and nuance, earning the Academy Award for Best Actress. She is joined by an exceptional supporting cast, including Diane Ladd, Harvey Keitel, and a young Jodie Foster.

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a sensitive, feminist road movie that gives voice to working-class women at a time when such perspectives were rarely represented in American cinema. It offers a distinctly female perspective on a world in which women’s identities had long been defined through desire, romantic relationships, and the domestic sphere—the very terrain explored in Tom Wesselmann’s work. Yet while Wesselmann explores the cultural imagery of the body, sexuality, and the home through the visual language of Pop Art, Scorsese reconsiders their representation by placing at the center of his film the inner life of a woman striving for autonomy.

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The exhibition Tom Wesselmann: All Out, currently on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, provides the point of departure for a weekend film program devoted to America in the 1960s and 1970s. Wesselmann’s work emerged from a visual culture saturated with images of the body, advertising, and consumerism, at a moment when American society was undergoing profound social and cultural change. The program expands the exhibition’s perspective through a selection of films that capture the spirit of the era: the counterculture; growing skepticism toward institutions and authority; shifting ideas about sexuality, femininity, and gender; the struggle for civil rights; and the social and political critique that defined the years of the Vietnam War.

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Note: Film introductions will be in Hebrew.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
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Image: © Warner Bros