Who payed the critics

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

A Brilliant Conflict

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

This film is a fun evocation of the times, with young bohemian types in lower middle class New York city. The main protagonist is a very sympathetic character, by far the best of the film, an aspiring your actor who is leaving home and dealing with his Jewish mother. You also get the young Christopher Walken, Jeff GOldblum, Ellen Greene, and several others in their earliest roles, so film buffs will love to see them.Unfortunately, very little happens in the film, in the middle it kind of dragged, for me at least. Some of them get ready for the next stage, most of them don't. Pfft.I do like this film, indeed I watched it when I was contemplating moving to New York. But it didn't bear a critical re-watching at a more mature age, one of the crucial tests for film classics. I watched it and felt, so what?

Paul Mazursky's wonderful ode to struggling actors in 1953 New York. It's not exactly a comedy and not exactly a drama, but a mix of both. Lenny Baker is Larry Lipinsky, a Brooklyn transplant living the bohemian life Greenwich Village. Shelley Winters (in an utterly outrageous performance) is his suffocating mother. The movie is populated with one eccentric character after another from Christopher Walken's pretentious poet to Antonio Fargas's flamboyant dandy to Lois Smith's tragic depressant. The movie is very flavorful and extremely well acted. Baker, who died less than ten years later, gives what should have been a career making performance. Jeff Goldblum pops up as an extremely ridiculous actor. Somehow this film is largely forgotten --- it's a real buried treasure.

I stumbled on this film on USA last night, about 15 minutes in. It was alternately comedic and touching, with Lenny Baker playing a 20-something (Larry Lapinsky) in Greenwich Village in the '50s. Shelley Winter played his mother, who had a knack for showing up at the most inopportune moments and embarrassing her son. Both of them, along with Mike Kellin as Mr. Lapinsky, give excellent nuanced performances.The central action of the movie is around Larry's attempts to become an actor, and around his friends in the village. The dialog is generally snappy and both dialog and visuals can be out-loud funny at times. 7/10.

As the founder of an Arts and Entertainment magazine, writer and film-buff, I can safely say that "Next Stop, Greenwich Village." is the most poignant film of the century. The wrier/director, Paul Mazursky, brilliantly displayed his experience of a rising star from 'Greenwich Village.' For his mastery of a vast diversity of human-kind, I applaud him and am shocked that it received such a low rating on this pole. Without any tribulations, I do not hold back that I voted a 10- excellent for the film. Never before had I witnessed such a fine group of rising stars in one film. Lenny Baker, Jeff Goldbloom- even Bill Murray shared the stage. But clearly old time favorites such as the Golden Globe winner for best supporting actress in this film, Shelley Winters and a personal love, Lou Jacobi, held the most memorable scenes. If every movie was like "Next Stop, Greenwich Village", we would have no reason to live outside of the movie theater.