November 2010
October 2010
Death Watch (1980) Now Online →
Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the user’s eyes. Keitel is assigned by ruthless TV producer Harry Dean Stanton to secretly probe the...
Kiyoko Matsumoto
On February 12, 1933, a 21-year-old student, Kiyoko Matsumoto (松本 貴代子, Matsumoto Kiyoko ), committed suicide by jumping into the crater of Mount Mihara, a volcano on the island of Izu Ōshima, Japan. This act started a trend in Japan and over the course of the year, 944 people (804 men, 140 women) leapt into the crater.
American musician Beck references Matsumoto’s death in the lyrics to...
WatchLost 1973 Bukowski documentary found.
