Pretend It's a City (2021)

Wikidata Q104764029, series, IMDb tt13660958: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only series by that title.

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Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

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Led to

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Connected to

Ellen Kuras: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Pretend It's a City → Ellen Kuras. The odd city-walking segments are beautifully shot by Ellen Kuras.
    “It's really, it features these odd segments in which he's walking through the city that are beautifully shot by Ellen Curris.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:24:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Martin Scorsese: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Pretend It's a City → Martin Scorsese. Only Scorsese could have gotten away with making this hodgepodge omnibus show.
    “It, an omnibus kind of a TV show, and I don't think anybody else could have made it or could have gotten away with making it in this fashion.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:25:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Public Speaking: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Pretend It's a City → Public Speaking. Scorsese's 2010 HBO Lebowitz documentary was far more formalist than the loose Netflix series.
    “There was a Martin Scorsese documentary about Fran Leboitz in 2010 called public speaking that aired on HBO.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:24:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Tiger: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Tiger → Pretend It's a City. Pretend It's a City, with its Spike Lee-Michael Jordan-as-artist archive, helps frame Tiger's moments as sublime, viewable only through footage.
    “I do think those Tiger Woods moments probably are this sublime, and to be able to see them again, as friendly boys kind of points out, is really the only way that you can”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:18:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Pretend It's a City → Ellen Kuras. The odd city-walking segments are beautifully shot by Ellen Kuras.
    “It's really, it features these odd segments in which he's walking through the city that are beautifully shot by Ellen Curris.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:24:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Pretend It's a City → Martin Scorsese. Only Scorsese could have gotten away with making this hodgepodge omnibus show.
    “It, an omnibus kind of a TV show, and I don't think anybody else could have made it or could have gotten away with making it in this fashion.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:25:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Pretend It's a City → Pretend It's a City. A streaming service giving great artists room to make projects like this is cited as the proof of what streaming can offer; it could not have happened a decade ago.
    “I think it's a good testament to actually what a streaming service can provide, which is sort of the beneficence to great artists on projects that they otherwise would not be able to make.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:23:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Pretend It's a City → Public Speaking. Scorsese's 2010 HBO Lebowitz documentary was far more formalist than the loose Netflix series.
    “There was a Martin Scorsese documentary about Fran Leboitz in 2010 called public speaking that aired on HBO.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:24:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Tiger → Pretend It's a City. Pretend It's a City, with its Spike Lee-Michael Jordan-as-artist archive, helps frame Tiger's moments as sublime, viewable only through footage.
    “I do think those Tiger Woods moments probably are this sublime, and to be able to see them again, as friendly boys kind of points out, is really the only way that you can”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:18:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Pretend It's a City: Scorsese's on-screen role is mostly laughing at Lebowitz; the one time he talks over 20 seconds, he corrects her Penny Arcade into Penny Serenade and explains Grant's career.
    “Martin Scorsese's role on the show, his physical role, is largely just to laugh at the things that friend Leboitt says.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:58:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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