Watch: Trailer Drops for Martin Scorsese Doc About Fran Lebowitz

"People frequently are infuriated by me because I'm filled with opinions," openly lesbian writer Fran Lebowitz declares in a trailer for "Pretend It's A City," the forthcoming Martin Scorsese documentary about her.

"'Pretend It's a City' marks the second major Scorsese-Lebowitz collaboration. Scorsese previously directed the 2010 HBO documentary film 'Public Speaking,' which included a variety of clips of Lebowitz's interviews and speaking engagements," IndieWire writes.

The IndieWire report went on to note that Lebowitz is "a longtime friend of Scorsese" who had "a cameo in the director's 2013 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'"

CNN reports that the forthcoming doc "follows Lebowitz, known for her cutting humor and social commentary, as she roams the city with which she has become synonymous."

Adds the CNN story: "It also features interviews with the 70-year-old essayist, allowing her to bemoan the issues she sees in her city."

"In New York there are millions of people," Lebowitz declares in the trailer, "and the only person looking where she's going is me." She's also seen proclaiming that, "It would take one subway ride for the Dalai Lama to turn into a lunatic."

IndieWire described Lebowitz as a "social critic who published bestselling books such as 'Metropolitan Life' and 'Social Studies,' " and quoted from the Netflix press release, which calls Lebowitz "a New Yorker to the core" and describes her as having "raised straight talk to an art form, packaging her no-nonsense observations about the city and its denizens into a punchy running commentary, one that spares nobody."

Wikipedia notes that Lebowitz "is known for her clever quips and observational humor on a range of topics, including New York City, gentrification, art, literature, and politics."

Once a writer for Andy Warhol's magazine "Interview," Lebowitz numbered pioneering gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe among her friends.

As famous for her decades-long writer's block - which she refers to as her "writer's blockade" - as for the books she's authored (the last of which to be published was a children's book in 1994), "Lebowitz has largely supported herself with television appearances and speaking engagements," Wikipedia says.

Lebowitz described her career as follows: "People asking me my opinion, and people not allowed to interrupt."

News sites took note of Scorsese's prolific output, which has flowed of late to streaming services. The director's much-acclaimed film "The Irishman" premiered on Netflix a year ago; his next feature, "Killers of the Flower Moon," will stream at Apple TV+. "Pretend It's A City" is scheduled to premiere on Netflix January 8.

Watch the new trailer below.