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Death Watch

Death Watch

Well-deserved re-issue of Bertrand Tavernier's prescient Glasgow-set sci-fi thriller

(4 stars)16 May 2012

Its plot is a credibility stretch even in these days of de rigueur media paranoia, and its relentlessly murky, moody tone might raise the odd giggle, but Tavernier’s long-neglected sci-fi curiosity is compelling nonetheless. Romy Schneider plays…

GFF 2012: 85A, Wrinkles and Death Watch

GFF 2012: 85A, Wrinkles and Death Watch

Some darker but inspiring fare concludes this year’s Glasgow Film Festival

1 Mar 2012

Czech animator Jan Svankmajer has made some strange films and nowhere is his wild imagination and unbridled creativity seen more vividly than in his many short films (26 in total!). In these works Svankmajer’s dark surrealism takes the form of biscuits…

GFF 2012 - Death Watch

GFF 2012 - Death Watch

Bertrand Tavernier’s remarkable Glasgow-shot film foresaw the coming of voyeuristic TV

2 Feb 2012

It’s arguably the best film ever shot in Scotland, but chances are you’ve never seen it. Directed in 1979 by French auteur Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country, Round Midnight) and set in the near future, Death Watch is a Glasgow-set sci-fi drama…

Search for those involved in Glasgow-shot 1980 film Death Watch

Search for those involved in Glasgow-shot 1980 film Death Watch

Bertrand Tavernier's reality TV film set for 2012 Glasgow Film Festival

16 Jan 2012

Glasgow Film Festival are appealing for anyone who worked on Bertrand Tavernier's film Death Watch in 1979 to get in touch before it is screened in February. Death Watch was filmed in Glasgow in 1979 and will be shown in cinemas nationwide this…

The Princess of Montpensier - Bertrand Tavernier interview

The Princess of Montpensier - Bertrand Tavernier interview

The cineaste speaks on his inspiration for returning to the past

1 Jul 2011

In a career spanning four decades and some 27 films, the French director Bertrand Tavernier has often been drawn to historical subjects: think for example of his 17th century swashbuckler D’Artagnan’s Daughter, or his dramas set in the aftermath of…

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Death Watch (La mort en direct)
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(4 stars) Katherine (Schneider) is a novelist living in Glasgow who's been diagnosed with a terminal disease; Roddy (Keitel) befriends her, but unknown to her he works for a TV company with its own agenda. The basic idea is amazingly prescient but the plot is rather preposterous; Schneider's moving performance anchors it in emotional reality.
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1 Jun–7 Jun Fri 1.15pm & 8.15pm; Sat 1.20pm & 8.15pm; Sun 3.25pm & 8.15pm; Mon–Wed 3.15pm & 8.15pm; Thu 6pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
1 Jun–7 Jun Fri 3.20pm & 8.10pm; Sat 3.40pm & 6.10pm; Sun 12.25pm & 5.10pm; Mon 1.15pm & 6pm; Tue 3.15pm & 8.10pm; Wed 1.15pm & 6pm; Thu 2.40pm & 8.10pm Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
16 Jun–17 Jun Sat 3.30pm; Sun 8.45pm Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee