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The Joy of Positivity Pick: Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)

The Joy of Positivity Pick: Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)

Paul Mazursky's lovely coming of age show-business story is a bittersweet winner with an amazing performance by Christopher Walken

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Nathan Rabin
Jan 08, 2024
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The Joy of Positivity Pick: Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
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I have a strangely contentious relationship with the films of actor turned writer-director Paul Mazursky. In The Fractured Mirror I write about his show-business comedies Alex in Wonderland and The Pickle with great irritation, as the kind of wildly self-indulgent, semi-autobiographical navel-gazing nonsense that makes people hate movies about the film industry.

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