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Pretend It's a City (TV Miniseries)

Pretend It's a City

2021

Martin Scorsese

Documentary, Self: Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorsese, Alec Baldwin ...

7.1

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TV Series. Documentary TV Mini-Series (2021). 7 episodes. Wander the New York City streets and fascinating mind of wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz as she sits down with Martin Scorsese. The director converses with the author about all manner of things that irritate and inspire her.

	Media	Author	Review
		Dave Itzkoff The New York Times	"'Pretend It’s a City' offers a tantalizing snapshot of New York in full bloom, along with Lebowitz’s lively and unapologetic commentary on what it means to live there"
		Judy Berman Time	"We should all be so lucky as to find someone who looks at us the way Marty looks at Fran."
		Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"A mostly smart, funny and warm look at New York City from several of its beloved chroniclers"
		Daniel D'Addario Variety	"The viewer familiar with Lebowitz will walk away from 'Pretend It’s a City' having had that familiar Fran Lebowitz experience (...) The viewer meeting her for the first time will wonder what anchors the scattered and formless monologues"
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"[It] is more than merely delightful, although it’s certainly that. It’s also something of a historical document"
		Jason Bailey The Playlist	"An uproariously funny delight (...) The director works up clever visual manifestations of [Lebowitz's] commentary"
		Roxana Hadadi AV Club	"So much of the joy in watching comes from the pure quality of Scorsese’s reactions to Lebowitz (...) [It is] lovingly admiring, if slightly unchallenging"
		Jordan Hoffman Decider	"It may seem, at first, that 'Pretend It’s A City' is just another portrait of an artist, but it’s not (...) If you follow Fran’s ways, you’ll learn how to truly not care what others think about you"

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