Death Watch (1980)
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch". (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Bertrand Tavernier
Written By: Bertrand Tavernier, Géza von Radványi, David Rayfiel, David Compton
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Max von Sydow, Harry Dean Stanton, Robbie Coltrane, Romy Schneider, Vadim Glowna, Bernhard Wicki, Caroline Langrishe, Thérèse Liotard, Paul Young
AKAs: Deathwatch, La Mort en direct
Country: France, UK, West Germany
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Death Watch belongs to 16 collections
1. Psychotronic Film and Video Guides (public: moderated by Gregzilla - 38 stars)
2. Netflix Instant (public: moderated by somnivore - 29 stars)
3. Doubling The Canon (public - 13 stars)
4. Doubling The Canon (2010 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 5 stars)
5. POV (public: moderated by Grit - 4 stars)
6. Wikipedia's list of dystopian films (public: moderated by ND Geek - 4 stars)
7. The Lost Picture Show Podcast (public: moderated by Coheed - 2 stars)
8. Television (public: moderated by djross - 1 star)
9. French director (public: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
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| May 06 | SHOCKULAR | 70 39% |
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| May 02 | HoneyB | 74 52% |
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"Everything is of interest but nothing matters." This was maybe sci-fi in 1980. but not anymore.
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| Jan 05 | TGFVG- | 2 65% |
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| Dec 06, 2021 | lynchian | 67 48% |
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syvyys | 80 48% |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Atoz | 42 21% |
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| Jan 28, 2021 | wimcalp | 77 83% |
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| Jan 17, 2021 | kjones77 | 70 43% |
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| Aug 14, 2020 | posetitel | 70 49% |
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| Apr 27, 2020 | flipperrbm | 3 15% |
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ZombieBuffet | 55 35% |
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| May 03, 2019 | bluefuzz | 75 28% |
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| Mar 17, 2019 |  |
lucius | 80 86% |
| Jan 11, 2019 | ZgGost | 60 44% |
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| Dec 23, 2018 | knives | 73 51% |
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| Dec 20, 2018 |  |
Moribunny | 50 38% |
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Considered as speculative fiction, it's not such a bad approximation of the future of the medium, with a twist of f451-like dystopia. The cast leaves little to be desired. But otherwise it just isn't very good. The characters are paper-thin, and the plot is patchy and constantly struggles to engage. It improves near the end, but too little too late.
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| Dec 07, 2018 |  |
EbelC | 60 47% |
| Sep 09, 2018 | Zepheus | 60 52% |
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| Aug 07, 2018 | filmbantha | 60 31% |
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| Apr 23, 2018 | chone | 30 12% |
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WuGambino | 50 10% |
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oskarhu | 75 39% |
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Starts off well, but loses momentum as the scenes get stale and don't develop into anything more interesting than what the premise was from the beginning. Somewhat disappointing.
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| Feb 01, 2018 | Panunzio | 72 46% |
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| Jan 02, 2018 | rafalko6 | 40 4% |
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Another "prescient, ahead-of-its-time" critique of mass media culture -- is it just me, or are such movies surprisingly abundant? Nice premise but as far as I can tell there's nothing beyond that except dramatic cues and ACTING! ACTING! When Sydow finally turns up, he seems to serve no purpose other than as a palate cleanser.
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| Apr 24, 2015 | OldAle1 | 80 61% |
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| Nov 22, 2014 | toro913 | 61 64% |
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Stain | 80 68% |
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A thoughtful, very European sf film. With the rise of reality TV, this movie looks less and less like fantasy every year
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nihilanth | 77 63% |
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| May 07, 2007 | filmsnob | 61 49% |
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djross | 40 24% |
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Score based on distant memory, but my recollection is the theme was more interesting than the execution.
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| Average Percentile 51.25% from 92 Ratings |  |