Fran Lebowitz Offers A Guide To New York In ‘Pretend It’s A City’ Documentary From Martin Scorsese

By Corey Atad. Published: 28 Dec 2020 3:16 PM

Take a tour of the Big Apple with Fran Lebowitz.

On Monday, Netflix debuted the trailer for the new documentary “Pretend It’s a City” from director Martin Scorsese.

“Fran Lebowitz knows what she likes—and what she doesn’t like. And she won’t wait for an invitation to tell you. 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,” the official description reads.

“Shaping Lebowitz’s thoughts into the furiously funny guidebook every New Yorker has at one point wished for, ‘Pretends It’s a City’ checks in with a classic urban voice on subjects ranging from tourists, money, subways and the arts to the not-so-simple act of walking in Times Square. (There is a right way to do it),” the description continues. “Along the way, Lebowitz’s own past comes into focus: a life marked by constant curiosity and invigorating independence.”