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Pretend It's a City — Limited Series

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Barry Divola Sydney Morning Herald Whether she's kvetching about slow-walking tourists or detailing the horrors of a sanitised Times Square, Lebowitz is never less than caustically loveable. Mar 10, 2021 Full Review Tony Bravo San Francisco Chronicle There is something unusually comforting about Lebowitz's ability to verbally decimate the absurdity of modern existence that sparks a lot of pleasure for me and my friends. Feb 1, 2021 Full Review Naomi Fry New Yorker Is there anything more delightful than watching Martin Scorsese enjoy someone? One of the best things about his new documentary series, Pretend It's a City, is getting to see the filmmaker react to his subject. Jan 23, 2021 Full Review Joonatan Itkonen Toisto.net Lebowitz is an excellent orator. She’s consistently entertaining, even, or especially when she’s infuriating. Her observations drip with hyperbole and surrealism, yet they feel more real for their inclusion. Rated: 4/5 Jul 14, 2024 Full Review María Juesas Fotogramas Lebowitz becomes a guide to the city that – no matter how much she denies it – she adores. With the streets as her setting, her ease transforms this concrete jungle into a familiar terrain, although not always friendly. [Full review in Spanish] Jul 1, 2024 Full Review Michael Cuby them. Is there any personality more “New York” than Fran Leibowitz? Sep 28, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jan 8, 2021 Pretend It's a City Fran Lebowitz muses about deadly distractions, Times Square terror, subway stoppers, and building fails. Details Episode 2 Aired Jan 8, 2021 Cultural Affairs Fran Lebowitz looks at the peril of writing, the joy of Motown and the time jazz pianist Charles Mingus chased her on the street. Details Episode 3 Aired Jan 8, 2021 Metropolitan Transit Fran Lebowitz gets going on mean cabbies, arty subway stations, interstellar tourism, spacey bus drivers, and being offered an e-cigarette by actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Details Episode 4 Aired Jan 8, 2021 Board of Estimate Fran Lebowitz hates money but loves things, so she must work, though she prefers to read and winning the lottery may be her only other option. Details Episode 5 Aired Jan 8, 2021 Department of Sports & Health Fran Lebowitz says she knows that smoking is bad for one's health and that some are annoyed that she's still alive; she says "wellness" and sports sound even worse to her. Details Episode 6 Aired Jan 8, 2021 Hall of Records Fran Lebowitz is all about fun -- guilty pleasures, not so much; she doesn't need technology, just a party, a movie, a small child, or a luminous Cary Grant. Details Episode 7 Aired Jan 8, 2021 Library Services Fran Lebowitz says books opened up the world to her younger self; today, she can't throw a volume away, but she will trash the writer of a glowing blurb for a lousy book. Details

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