Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Is the Pick of the Week

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Before I went on vacation last week, I rushed to write my Five Cool Things article.I usually write them on Tuesday evening, and they are published on Wednesday. But we were leaving early Tuesday morning, so Monday evening, while I was packing, I quickly wrote that article plus a comics review. I was so proud of myself. We drove back home this Monday. Somewhere on the ride, I told myself to remember to write this week’s Pick of the Week.

Then we got home, and I discovered that my keyboard was no longer working. All of the lower keys no longer worked at all. I tried unplugging it and messing with the wires, but nothing. Luckily (or so I thought), I had a spare keyboard lying around. I picked it up to discover that the cat had puked on it at some point in the past. Cleaned it off as best I could and plugged it in. Alas, it also had keys that weren’t working, but they were different keys. Luckily (or so I stupidly thought once again), I had yet another keyboard lying around. It is a wireless one. I grabbed it. No cat vomit, but the lid to the battery casing was missing.

I ordered one on Amazon (and then cancelled that order and purchased a different one – a story for another time). It arrived yesterday afternoon. I was swamped with catching up on everything I didn’t do while on vacation that I totally forgot to write my pick. Emailed the owner of Cinema Sentries about 11 last night, apologizing. We decided it would be okay to go ahead and write it today and be late with it.

So here we are. I intentionally try to not pick released from the Criterion Collection each week because that just feels like cheating. Or lazy. I like to highlight a variety of interesting releases from different companies. But this week, my favorite director, Martin Scorsese, is getting a new release, and I just had to pick it. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore isn’t my favorite Scorsese, but it’s still a very good film (you can read my review of it here.)

You can read all the details of the interesting new releases at Cinema Sentries.