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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Public Speaking’ Should Be Considered One of His Best

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Christopher Campbell
Dec 04, 2019
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With Public Speaking, Martin Scorsese achieved the impossible: he made the most interesting person in the world more interesting, and he made a film that nearly rivals its subject, the writer Fran Lebowitz, in originality. 

The brilliance of Public Speaking is the way it deviates from the typical form that documentaries about a single person usually take…

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