Death Watch (La mort en direct)

Wanted to see this so I could complete my Bertrand Tavernier filmography viewing. Still have a few to go. Way ahead of its time. Since, we've seen similar subject matter covered in The Truman Show, Videodrome and Black Mirror. And in many ways this film foretold the…

Sean Baker

"Look how shy we've become about death—it's the new pornography." Spoilers abound. In a somnolent future society wherein disease has been all but eradicated, a terminal diagnosis turns spirited publisher Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider) into an involuntary…

Richard Chandler

1980 In Review - October  In a future where dying is exceedingly rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a celebrity and a man with camera implants goes to secretly record her for a morbid TV show.  Very very interesting and well before it’s time drama that suffers from a…

Michael501 📺

Romy Schneider Retrospective #2 Death Watch is a poignant and moving film. An ethically-challenged TV producer (Harry Dean Stanton) has a great idea for a sensational new kind of TV show. It would be an intimate documentary portrait of a woman living through the moments…

Disgustipated

if you see me thirst-watching Harvey Keitel's filmography in the next couple of days no you didn't & please respect my privacy at this time

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There’s a certain sad fame about it…in dying the old way… What if your impending slow death from illness was the world’s hottest reality show? And so it is with this Black Mirror prototype featuring the incredible cast of Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton and the…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

An intelligent sci-fi film from Bertrand Tavernier, his only venture into this genre and also in English, set in and around Glasgow. It anticipates many things that have come to pass: reality television, live streaming, artificial intelligence, surveillance by implanted…

Stephen M

not for everyone, the stupidly slow pacing alone would turn a lot of people off, but luckily it is very much geared toward me :^) personally i wish there were more anti-futurism sci-fi movies filmed in glasglow and drenched in 1970's sensibilities. nothing is more important…

henry 💿

poor Romy Schneider..... to me, this is her greatest performance, the role just fits her so well and it made me so deeply sad. her chemistry with Harvey Keitel carries this film despite that they could've easily taken another route with this dynamic, but it's all the more…

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