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title: "Public Speaking"
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# Public Speaking

**Brand:** martin scorsese
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## Customer Reviews

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    Perhaps Scorsese tried to help too much
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2015*

Not only do I count myself a Fran Leibowitz fan but I bought this movie hungry for her particular brand of acerbic insightful wit. There are certainly some sharp bon mot layered in to some depth between short bits about her friends, her life in New York, but ultimately I felt the woman had been softened and polished more than was necessary. For a friend Leibowitz fan this is an opportunity to meet the woman in a more conversational mode. The aspects of Fran the deliberate sharp minded wit and her explanations of her life and influences are balanced but I don't feel I know Miss Leibowitz that much better or have had the chance to enjoy the best of her mind.The advantage of reading the work of Miss Leibowitz either as collected in her more famous books or in her occasional essays with Vanity Fair is that you meet her focused on a topic and exhausting what she has to say about that topic. In the movie you get a variety of high points, bits of narrative and some very interesting video moments of some of the people who help illustrate points she is making. It is not immediately clear, for example why James Baldwin in debate with Bill Buckley Junior is part of this movie but it does not take much to align their brilliantly worded debate points with the kind of New York experience Miss Leibowitz is describing. There are several efforts to distinguish wit defined as being sharp edge and judge mental as opposed to humor which is defined as friendly. While this point is fairly well made the discussion relating jazz rhythms and successful joke telling is abandoned as an incomplete thought.Fran Leibowitz fans are logical audience for this documentary. Speaking as one I conclude that it is almost all that I would want from this kind of documentary. For a person using this documentary as an introduction to Miss Leibowitz there is some good background but I'm not sure this conversation works as an introduction. It is a very friendly documentary and Scorsese is adept at varying the visuals to maintain interest I wish he had been so free with the editing.

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    AS GOOD AS IT GETS
  

*by H***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 4, 2012*

This is a highly entertaining documentary that does great credit to its two protagonists.  No doubt it has to be Fran Liebowitz who takes the prize, but that is in no small measure thanks to Martin Scorsese who has managed to present his subject in a most natural environment, where you feel as though you are present in the proceedings, and the director (although you see the back of his head) seems invisible.Such is the extraordinary force of her personality and humour, that there is never a dull moment.  That in fact is quite some compliment since I have never actually heard of Fran Liebowitz before (unfortunately). I shan't attempt to describe the contents of this extended interview, since those who already know Fran Liebowitz need no introduction, and those who don't - well you don't know what you're missing (unless you don't happen to like the New York "take" on life).I thank Mr. Scorsese for helping me make up for lost time, and if ever he should think of a sequel, count me in!

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    Brilliant cultural critique; not instructional for toastmasters wannabes
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2017*

Lebowitz is a national treasure. She has the kind of intelligence and wit that leads commentators to refer to her as a "throwback" to an earlier generation (1840s, 1880's, 1920s, 1940s?) when literary wit was cultivated and heralded. I love the reviews here by incensed folks who thought they could substitute 5 to 10 years of participation in public speaking programs by Toastmasters International with a DVD documentary on a cultural commentary icon. Seriously. So, Fran, if you want to up your rating, please ask Martin to update the progam by adding more guidance for dry mouth and techniques to cover when drawing a blank.I've watched the DVD three times and shared it around with friends, so it's a gem I'll come back to often.

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