There were 3 separate movies being filmed in the West Village last night, all within a 4-block radius. Every time you go to the Village, you run into movie crews. It’s fun to watch them set up and everything, and it’s fun to look for stars – but if I actually lived in the Village, that kind of thing would get old REALLY fast.<\/p>\n
“Hi. You can’t come out your front steps for 3 days this week.”<\/p>\n
“Uh – what? Why?”<\/p>\n
“We’re filming Kirsten Dunst’s new movie here.”<\/p>\n
“But … my steps … my life!!”<\/p>\n
“But – Kirsten Dunst!!!”<\/p>\n
“Oh, who gives a crap about Kirsten Dunst! The new Robin Williams movie was filmed on my street LAST week … I am OVER the movie-star thing, okay? I need to be able to come out of my house when I feel like it!”<\/p>\n
The West Village is a prime movie-making neighborhood. There are certain streets (Barrow Street, Bedford) where … if there were not cars parked along the curb … you could believe that you were in the late 1800s. Nothing would give our present-time away.<\/p>\n
Warren Beatty shot the whole beginning section of Reds<\/i> right in Greenwich Village – only he put horses and buggies on the streets. Nothing else had to be changed, because the landscape there, the architecture is from another time. It is untouched.<\/p>\n
It’s beautiful: the cobblestones, the trees, the wrought-iron lampposts, the brownstones …<\/p>\n
…and …<\/p>\n
around every corner … a massive bustling movie crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There were 3 separate movies being filmed in the West Village last night, all within a 4-block radius. Every time you go to the Village, you run into movie crews. It’s fun to watch them set up and everything, and … Continue reading