Fran Lebowitz

A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. (imdb)

A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences. (imdb)

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp became an Englishman in New York. We follow Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, his life as an gay man, and his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering. (imdb)

A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world.

Wander the New York City streets and fascinating mind of wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz as she sits down with Martin Scorsese.

A controversial artist blazes a trail for other gay image makers in New York 's 1980s scene, only to perish at the end of the decade from the AIDS virus. (imdb)