Martin Scorsese’s follow-up to The King of Comedy is another darkly hilarious tale of obsession and delusion, following a hapless word processor (Griffin Dunne) and his paranoid, anxiety-ridden nocturnal misadventures in Manhattan over the course of a single frantic night, after arranging a date with a mysterious woman (Roseanna Arquette) he meets in a café. Shot quickly after Scorsese had first failed to get The Last Temptation of Christ off the ground in 1984 (and originally to be directed by Tim Burton), the film is now regarded as one of the unsung gems of his filmography.
Monday 11th March
96 min
M
Comedy
