The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 6 nominations total
- Robert Fulmer
- (as Chris Walken)
- Mrs. Tupperman
- (as Rachel Novikoff)
- Cop at El Station
- (as Joe Spinnell)
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Did you know
- TriviaFinal film appearance of Lenny Baker and his only film as a leading actor.
- GoofsSet in 1953, but the unmistakable twin towers of the World Trade Center (completed in 1973) are visible in an exterior scene.
- Quotes
Ellen: Was everything a joke to you?
Larry Lapinsky: Not everything.
Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach: See, you're joking right now, right?
Larry Lapinsky: What do you want me to say?
Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach: Joking is what's doing you in. Joking is the American actor's disease. It's the American person's disease. Because what you're doing is you're keeping reality out so that it won't touch you. The worst kind of joking you can do is keep life out. Commenting, editorializing, joking - terrible! Don't do it. It's fatal.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Celluloid Closet (1995)
Larry's friends include several rather eccentric people. But they're all his age, and all have the usual growing-up problems. Talk turns to romance, sex, finding a job, future plans, and so on. The script is rather talky. But in a place like Greenwich Village, where life revolves around people, philosophy, and the arts, what else is there to do but talk?
Though humor permeates the film, it's mostly dark comedy, which masks the underlying emotional pain of the various characters, as they all seem rather lost and forlorn amid such gloomy and dreary physical surroundings. But maybe the drabness of it all provides that sense of nostalgia for Mazursky, that sense of having moved beyond, to a broader, brighter, more expansive vision of life.
The film's cinematography is conventional. Dark interiors match the film's dark, poignant themes. Background music features mostly light jazz, with a little opera thrown in. Casting and acting are fine. But Shelley Winters steals the show with her terrific performance.
Nostalgic in tone and sentiment, "Next Stop, Greenwich Village" offers memories of another time, another place. It's a period-piece setting, a coming-of-age story. It's a film that will appeal to viewers who lived through the 1950s, or who can identify with the bohemian lifestyle that so defines that special place called Greenwich Village.
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- Mar 30, 2010
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- Paul Mazursky's Next Stop, Greenwich Village
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- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1