Southside Film presents Death Watch (12A)

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Death Watch (12A, 127mins, 1981)
Tues 20th January
The Glad Cafe
8pm (doors 7.30pm)
£6, £5 conc

Before Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror or Big Brother or David Cronenberg entered theVideodrome, Bertrand Tavernier came to Glasgow to film this strikingly prescient futuristic drama. Ace reporter Roddy (Harvey Keitel) has a camera implanted in his eye to record everything he sees. His job is to capture the last days of the terminally ill Katherine (Romy Schneider) for the viewing pleasure of voyeuristic millions. Refusal to comply is not an option in a cult classic that earned five César nominations and makes atmospheric use of the decaying industrial heartland of late 1970s Glasgow.

Also starring Southsider Robbie Coltrane in his first film role.

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