Episode 1.1
Pretend It’s a City
Meet Fran Lebowitz and join her on her rambles as
... More she muses about deadly distractions, Times Square terror, subway stoppers and total building fails.Less
Docuseries on New York City icon, the wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz. From Martin Scorsese.
"For decades, the critic...
Docuseries on New York City icon, the wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz. From Martin Scorsese.
"For decades, the critic and essayist has been expressing her opinions, sometimes grouchily, always riotously. A New Yorker to the core, Lebowitz has raised straight talk to an art form, packaging her no-nonsense observations about the city and its denizens into a punchy running commentary, one that spares nobody." (Official synopsis)
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"This is Scorsese’s version of forwarding you an email with a link and insisting that, trust him, you just gotta read it."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"A tribute to two things Scorsese loves, Fran Lebowitz and New York City, and that affection is contagious for much, if not quite all, of its running time."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Deeply pleasurable."
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine"Lebowitz is hilarious, and Scorsese captures her humor, as well as her love of New York City, very well."
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Decider
Decider"Lovingly admiring, if slightly unchallenging..."
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A.V. Club
A.V. Club"Yields its share of amusing thoughts and wry observations, many of which are worth recording for posterity. But it would take a great pretender to act like it's worthy of the time devoted to them."
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CNN
CNN"Nothing that Lebowitz says in it does more than provoke, and that's a reflex that fades with overuse."
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Variety
Variety"Scorsese sets the jumping off points and Lebowitz leaps with often hilarious, reckless abandon."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com
