One of the best things about Martin Scorsese’s documentary series, “Pretend It’s a City,” is getting to see the filmmaker react to his subject, the author and humorist Fran Lebowitz.
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, the author and humorist Fran Lebowitz, who is also his good friend. Ten years ago, Scorsese made “Public Speaking,” his first documentary about Lebowitz, which was an ode to a vanishing breed of New York celebrity, as well as a portrait of the city itself.
Scorsese loves characters, and his style is to let them reveal themselves through gesture and, especially, through speech. This has been apparent in the vivid voice-over monologues of Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle, in “Taxi Driver”; Ray Liotta’s Henry Hill, in “Goodfellas”; and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort, in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Scorsese’s documentaries, too, often hinge on the portrayal of voluble figures.
Apart from writing one children’s book and the occasional magazine article, Lebowitz has suffered, in recent years, from what she calls a “writer’s blockade.” This has prompted her shift from an actively publishing author to a legendary public wit, who earns her living through speaking engagements. This is excellent work if you can get it, and, as far as I can tell, hardly anyone but Lebowitz has.
As I sat down to watch, I recalled that, when “Public Speaking” came out, I went to see it at Film Forum, a fifteen-minute stroll from the Waverly Inn. Now Film Forum had been shut for nearly a year, and I was viewing “Pretend It’s a City” from my couch in Brooklyn, feeling far away in more ways than one. “Pretend It’s a City” shows New York as it was when people still left their couches.
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