Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Scorsese seemed to be following the path of a director determined to maintain his own voice in cinema but also understanding that he needed to work with producers at the same time. Mean Streets was purely an independent production eventually picked up by Warner Brothers. His next film, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, was purely a studio production driven by Ellen Burstyn’s love for the script and desire to help an up and coming director. This would never fall under Scorsese’s films that wou...