The Ballad Of Greenwich Village

[2005, Movie]

The Ballad Of Greenwich Village: Review

Filmmaker Karen Kramer only skims the surface of New York City's Greenwich Village, a storied tangle of twisty, cobblestoned streets on Manhattan's Lower West Side, but her serviceable survey offers a few insightful interviews and some great archival footage. Opening with a quote from literary critic Alfred Kazin that asks where but Greenwich Village could a rebellious freethinker settle, Kramer traces the neighborhood's antiauthoritarian roots back to 1811, when Village resi... read more