The King of Comedy
This program brings together several film duos, exploring the unique dynamics of face-to-face encounters. These interactions can take the form of a chase, a direct confrontation, a tense meeting behind closed doors, or a spectacular final showdown. Antagonists, doubles, adversaries, or alter egos: these are all troubled relationships that unite and tear apart the protagonists, between fascination and aversion.
Winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay in 1984
Rupert Pupkin, a little-known stand-up comedian, dreams and believes that he has great talent. He tries to convince Jerry Langford, a famous talk-show host, to put him on his show. Langford flatly refused. Pupkin then takes all the necessary steps to ensure his moment of glory on the prime-time show.
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is an American filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and producer. His body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of good and evil, guilt, redemption, faith, machismo, nihilism, crime, perdition, and violence. A major figure of the New Hollywood era, Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential American filmmakers of his generation, thanks to classics such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Wolf of Wall Street, and many more. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and the president of the Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving film heritage and preventing the deterioration of film stock.
