Films like Alice's Restaurant.

Alice's Restaurant (1969) reads as Neutral, steady, measured counterculture / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) poster
1. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz1974

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Mr. Naive (1970) poster
2. Mr. Naive1970

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Peeping Toms (1972) poster
3. Peeping Toms1972

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Who Looks for Gold? (1974) poster
4. Who Looks for Gold?1974

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Funny Old Man (1969) poster
5. Funny Old Man1969

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Wives (1975) poster
6. Wives1975

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) poster
7. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice1969

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Les Godelureaux (1961) poster
8. Les Godelureaux1961

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Graduate (1967) poster
9. The Graduate1967

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Omar Gatlato (1976) poster
10. Omar Gatlato1976

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Autumn Marathon (1979) poster
11. Autumn Marathon1979

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Theatre (1978) poster
12. Theatre1978

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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