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Pretend It's a City

Pretend It's a City

Pretend It's a City

2021
Comedy, Documentary
TV Series
Wander the New York City streets and fascinating mind of wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz as she sits down with Martin Scorsese.

Directed by:

Martin Scorsese
Martin-Scorsese
172 total credits
After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style

Starring:

Martin Scorsese
Martin-Scorsese
172 total credits
After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style
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Fran Lebowitz
Fran-Lebowitz
6 total credits
Fran Lebowitz has 6 credits at Criticker, including: Pretend It's a City, Public Speaking, The Booksellers, Dirty Pictures and Wojnarowicz

Country:

USA

Pretend It's a City

2021
Comedy, Documentary
TV Series
Avg Percentile 62.44% from 119 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

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Rated 10 Mar 2021
72
82nd
A very enjoyable record of a singular personality, of a kind that is rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth.
Rated 16 Sep 2021
78
48th
Hilarious and enjoyable, both the dialogues and the music. Fran's a great observer of many things, with a combination of sharpness and humour that has already become rare.
Rated 23 Feb 2023
80
81st
um humor envelhecido, mas muito bom
Rated 02 Mar 2022
70
59th
Entertaining chats. I wish the lighting guy had done something so the people on stage didn't have to cover their eyes.
Rated 31 Jul 2021
74
72nd
Fran Lebowitz fans--I've been one since the '70's--will love this, and your enjoyment will depend largely on how you feel about her. This provides compelling evidence that directors belong behind the camera, not in front of it. Scorsese's loud guffawing at almost everything she says is grating. And whose idea was it to have Spike Lee interview her? She is so far out of his league intellectually and culturally it feels like a bad joke. I didn't think it was possible to like him less than before.
Rated 22 Feb 2021
87
73rd
I haven't heard of Fran Lebowitz before this documentary. She's a very interesting woman with unique take on world. And it's filmed in New York which I adore from countless movies and series. Her whole acting grumpy is a lot better now than from what we saw on her earlier, younger appearances. She does seem overly pessimistic on some things and overly annoyed at others, but hey, that's what makes her - her. And I love Scorsese's contagious laugh, he clearly adores her.
Rated 23 Jan 2021
80
88th
One of those works I'm obsessed with and I don't quite understand why. Half the time you might disagree with her thinking "Nah, that's some flimsy reasoning," yet there's something captivating about the way she makes observations and how she drifts from one unusually strong opinion to another with childlike honesty. She knows she "gets yelled out" and she can't stop broadcasting her cynicism.
Rated 18 Jan 2021
4
26th
I probably would have enjoyed this a lot more if I was ten years younger or thirty years older. I find Lebowitz's personality compelling, but her takes seem less sizzling hot and more half-baked than the documentary (desperately, desperately) wants you to think. Anybody else feel like clawing their eyes out when Fran and Spike started debating the artistic merit of Michael Jordan?

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Martin Scorsese
Martin-Scorsese
172 total credits
After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style

Starring:

Martin Scorsese
Martin-Scorsese
172 total credits
After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style
,
Fran Lebowitz
Fran-Lebowitz
6 total credits
Fran Lebowitz has 6 credits at Criticker, including: Pretend It's a City, Public Speaking, The Booksellers, Dirty Pictures and Wojnarowicz

Country:

USA
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