Product Details

• Actors: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken
• Directors: Paul Mazursky
• Writers: Paul Mazursky
• Producers: Paul Mazursky, Anthony Ray
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: December 13, 2005
• Run Time: 111 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B7QCRW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,971 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Next Stop, Greenwich Village" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

During the 1950s, a young man leaves home to go live in Greenwich Village and be an actor.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 13-DEC-2005
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Little-Known Masterpiece, October 11, 1999

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Thomas Ross ([e-mail]) (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Next Stop Greenwich Village [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an autobiographical film by Mazursky featuring young, then unknown New York actors like Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Murray, and it gives us one of Shelly Winter's best performances (it's unforgettable). Greenwich Village in the 50s, the Bohemian era with its cafes, rent parties, and blossoming sexual freedoms. Lenny Baker promised to be our own Jean-Paul Belmondo--he died young--and this is his best performance: sensible, yearning, funny, and blossoming with talent and ambition, he catches it perfectly. The remaining cast is surprisingly powerful, and the mood that Mazursky catches is memorable: freedom and youth, humor and youthful hypocrisy in an era cracking at the seams to reinvent the world and still have it all.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked gem., July 6, 2004

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Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Next Stop Greenwich Village [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's hard to explain the lack of public response to this charming comedy in 1976. Perhaps because it was released when all cities, especially New York City, were having such hard times. Or maybe it was the casting of mostly unknowns that sank it.

For whatever reason, Paul Mazursky's NEXT STOP GREENWICH VILLAGE is a classic movie about youthful ambition, betrayal, tragedy, and never-ending surplus of hope. While most directors ultimately wind up knee-deep in schlock when making a movie about their youths, Mazursky keeps his focus on honesty. There's an integrity in his examination of these young characters, as they support and/or abuse each other in pursuit of their aspirations.

The performances are sparklers. The late Lenny Baker contributes just the right amounts of comedy, self-doubt and, ultimately, self-confidence the role demands. And, as others have mentioned, Shelley Winters is totally priceless! NEXT STOP GREENWICH VILLAGE should be your next purchase.

PS--When will the dvd version come out?

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The Mother Behind The Throne", July 21, 2002

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Stanley H. Nemeth (Garden Grove, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Next Stop Greenwich Village [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This early Paul Mazursky film could well be his finest achievement. Wonderfully mixing irony and affection, it examines bohemian New York in the 50's, its scenes generously filled with the assorted types - from fragile to vicious - who then flocked to Greenwich Village, seeking personal freedom and frequently a career in the arts. Mazursky's knowledge of that time and place is unerring; the pubs, the street life and the character types he presents are accurately, hilariously and, often, movingly drawn. From the frequenters of the San Remo to the Brando imitators at the Actor's Studio, he recreates the aspiring young people of a time long since gone but still fresh in the memories of some persons who were part of it.
A nostalgic invocation of the past, however, is not the film's sole or even chief strength. That honor goes instead to the amazing part of the actor hero's mother brilliantly portrayed by Shelley Winters, clearly in the role of her career. She is the Jewish Mother On Film for all time. Not just a stereotypical devotee of the classic formula - control guilt feelings and you control the child - she is also, surprisingly and freshly, herself a frustrated artist. When she weeps over the radio singing of Jussi Bjorling, vowing to hear him in person at the Met, or unconventionally jitterbugs, mad glint in her eye, with a black gay guy at a Greenwich Village party she crashes, we feel affection for her despite her cluelessness and manipulations. Hers is an unfulfilled life in Brooklyn, for she's bursting with an artist's energy which has no outlet. This becomes the ground of her aspiring actor son's and then our eventual respect and affection for her despite her meddling as the would-be power behind the son's throne. "Next Stop Greenwich Village," all told, is a film of considerable distinction, and it deserves to be far better known.