Next Stop, Greenwich Village

"Greenwich Village, 1953. It was coffeehouses and high adventure, it was your first love and your best dream, it was girls who drank wine and your mother back home asking God to forgive you."

1976 1h 51m EN

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★6.4TMDB · 46

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An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

“Greenwich Village, 1953. It was coffeehouses and high adventure, it was your first love and your best dream, it was girls who drank wine and your mother back home asking God to forgive you.”

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Cast

Lenny Baker
Larry Lapinsky
Shelley Winters
Faye Lapinsky
Ellen Greene
Sarah Roth
Lois Smith
Anita Cunningham
Christopher Walken
Robert Fulmer
Dori Brenner
Connie
Antonio Fargas
Bernstein Chandler
Lou Jacobi
Herb

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Paul Mazursky
Writers: Paul Mazursky
Languages: Italian, English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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50 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Italian, English.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Paul Mazursky, shot by Arthur J. Ornitz. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Bill Conti. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Richard Halsey shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Lenny Baker and Shelley Winters and Ellen Greene carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Greenwich Village, 1953. It was coffeehouses and high adventure, it was your first love and your best dream, it was girls who drank wine and your mother back home asking God to forgive you.".

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IMDB entry: tt0074963 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Paul Mazursky directs. Arthur J. Ornitz behind the camera. Bill Conti scores. Richard Halsey cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Italian, English.

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150 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Italian, English.
3Directed by Paul Mazursky, shot by Arthur J. Ornitz. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Bill Conti. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Richard Halsey shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Lenny Baker and Shelley Winters and Ellen Greene carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Greenwich Village, 1953. It was coffeehouses and high adventure, it was your first love and your best dream, it was girls who drank wine and your mother back home asking God to forgive you.".
8IMDB entry: tt0074963 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 46 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 12 themes, including "new york city", "mother", "girlfriend", "jewish american".

The technical file

Cinematography: Arthur J. Ornitz
Original score: Bill Conti
Editing: Richard Halsey
Production design: Philip Rosenberg
Costume design: Albert Wolsky
Makeup / hair: Robert Jiras
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)

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CinemaSerf2025-07-05
★ 7/10
There were loads of these type of films made in the mid 1970s about aspiring types finally out from under their parental wing and now hitting the big city with dreams and hormones racing. Here, the quite charismatic Lenny Baker is “Larry”, a Jewish lad who thinks he could be the next Marlon Brando, or maybe Laurence Olivier - even though a local beat cop reckons he might want to change professions altogether. He has moved away from his doting but overpowering mother (Shelley Winters) and takes up with his girlfriend “Sarah” (Ellen Greene) for the usual slew of castings, romantic interludes, fights and squabbles as he tries to keep his life on an even keel whilst he seeks that elusive break. Will it ever come? This is an observational look at a chunk of his life. We learn a little of his earlier life but for the most part we just follow their day-to-day antics as he tries to reconcile his ambitions with her’s and the reality of his new and bumpy Brooklyn life. There are no conclusions here, though maybe progress is made as he begins to realise that he is not the first in his family to want more, nor is he the only one with the talent to perhaps support that. He begins to appreciate that sacrifices have been made for him just as he has to make them now, himself. Winters doesn’t really feature that often, but when she does she delivers quite strongly with a short burst of Maria Callas livening things up and lightening the mood for a few moments too. Thanks to characters like Christopher Walken’s “Fulmer” and “Bernstein” from the man forever remembered as “Huggy Bear” (Antonio Fargas) it also manages to take a light-hearted swipe at the pomposity of the creative community and it’s occasionally flamboyant population. It’s an enthusiastic and lively production that does play a little to stereotype now and again, but it keeps clear of sentiment, is quite funny and worth a watch.

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