VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for PRETEND IT'S A CITY on Netflix
The film, from director Martin Scorsese, will be released on January 8th.
By: Sarah Leiber Dec. 28, 2020
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.
Watch the trailer for PRETEND IT'S A CITY below.
Shaping Lebowitz's thoughts into the furiously funny guidebook every New Yorker has at one point wished for, PRETEND 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.) Along the way, Lebowitz's own past comes into focus: a life marked by constant curiosity and invigorating independence.
Directed by Lebowitz's longtime friend Martin Scorsese and peppered with his own witty takes on a town he knows best, PRETEND IT'S A CITY is a double dose of NYC attitude that sparks pangs of delight, fury and recognition among those who love the place as deeply as they do.
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