Fran Lebowitz
Birthday: 1950-10-27
Place of Birth: Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Biography: Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.
Movies
Resident Alien
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an English...
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Regarding Susan Sontag
An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracki...
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The No Show
McGruff, Drew Barrymore, and a rag tag band of kids make a rock video about "saying no to drugs."...
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Yesterday's Tomorrows
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in w...
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Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker
Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled l...
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Beautiful Darling
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known War...
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aka Mr. Chow
With his signature circular glasses and mustache, Michael Chow is an exuberant force at the crossroa...
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I, Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon. Contrarian. Misanthrope. Naysayer. For all the people interviewed in this film, someone ...
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River of Fundament
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...
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Killing Patient Zero
After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire gen...
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The Wolf of Wall Street
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on...
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Crazy About Tiffany's
A provocative and rare glimpse at the most iconic luxury jeweler in the world. From past to present,...
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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—thes...
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Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
The story of the iconic trailblazer known by her initials DVF worldwide. Child of a Holocaust surviv...
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The Gospel According to André
From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor And...
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Public Speaking
Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp ...
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Always at The Carlyle
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a...
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and t...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at ...
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Toni Morrison Remembers
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black Am...
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The Booksellers
What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare bo...
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Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker
A collage-like, incisive look at the life of writer, painter and thinker David Wojnarowicz, whose po...
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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creati...
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Dirty Pictures
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken ...
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It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise
This portrait of Hilary Knight, the artist behind the iconic Eloise books, sees him reflecting on hi...
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