Public Speaking

Name: Public Speaking
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 23, 2011
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 78

2011

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Rialto Pictures | Release Date: February 23, 2011 | Unrated

Summary: Wise, brilliant and funny, Fran Lebowitz hit the New York literary scene in the early ‘70s when Andy Warhol hired the unknown scribe to write a column for interview magazine. Today, she’s an acclaimed author with legions of fans who adore her acerbic wit. (HBO Documentary Films)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 84 min

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Robert Bianco

Jan 10, 2024

A fabulously enjoyable documentary from Martin Scorsese that may introduce a new generation to this incredibly sharp, often stinging, but famously unproductive writer. [22 Nov 2010, p.12B]

Melissa Anderson

Feb 22, 2011

The quick-witted malcontent, a Morristown, New Jersey, refugee who arrived at Port Authority in 1969, is the best kind of New Yorker: one with a long memory who's averse to nostalgia. Read full review

Ginia Bellafante

Jan 10, 2024

In “Public Speaking,” Martin Scorsese’s enormously enjoyable and perceptive documentary about her, Ms. Lebowitz’s endearing narcissism is a study in the notion that arrogance and insecurity are largely two sides of the same cocktail coaster. Read full review

David Fear

Feb 22, 2011

By the end of this funny, insightful doc, you get a sense of an extraordinary mind that both fueled and fed the zeitgeist. Don't miss it. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Bruce Elder

Jan 10, 2024

This is a movie with a lot of intelligence and ideas, about someone with a lot of both, for people who, even if they lack one or both of those qualities, appreciate them. Read full review

David Wiegand

Jan 10, 2024

This may not be Martin Scorsese's most sophisticated film, but it actually takes a smart filmmaker to understand that, with a subject like Fran Lebowitz, the best thing you can do is let her talk. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jan 10, 2024

Intermittently amusing and surely interesting, "Lebowitz" falls victim to the classic faux pas of overstaying its welcome. Read full review

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