Martin Scorsese, in many ways, seems best suited to direct an unusual series such as this. Both a passionate New Yorker and fast talker with wide-ranging interests, he shares several qualities with Lebowitz (and most receptive to her humor). Bringing his love for fun musical segues and kinetic edit style, he is able to create an engaging mosaic from interviews, dinner table conversations and archival footage, inter-cut with shots of contemporary New York street life. By the end, we get a double portrait of a human character and a city in constant flux, linked inextricably with each other. The series is both a welcome addition to Scorsese’s non-fiction filmography (beginning with ‘Italianamerican’) and a reflexive homage to an old friend. In making these, Scorsese appears most comfortable and having a lot of fun- which for Lebowitz, is always “a good reason to make anything”.