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'Enemy of the State', with Will Smith and Gene Hackman, also bears mentioning here - especially since it is a kind of informal sequel, albeit with explosions and a proxy protagonist, to Hackman's role in 'The Conversation'. -----Original Message----- From: Film-Philosophy Salon [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Henry Miller Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:59 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: surveillance a pretty colossal example is 'THE WIRE' this is kind of pro-surveillance, if anything, insofar as there are numerous bureaucratic checks in place so the cops have to be observing a suspect using the phone if the tap is to be admissible in court, etc. it's pro-surveillance as more effective than the standard practice of bringing in low-level perps and trading their sentence off against them bringing in higher-level targets. but it also shows up that for surveillance to mean anything, someone has to be actually listening/watching. On 9/4/07, Stan Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Jim, > Yes, that's it. Just looked more carefully at imdb and found it at once. > It deals with the increasing instability of the main character thanks to his voyeurism-strange parallel to The Conversation, perhaps? > Cheers, > Stan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Film-Philosophy Salon on behalf of Jim Flannery > Sent: Wed 9/5/2007 5:14 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: surveillance > > Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 4:54:22 AM, one spoke: > > S> there also occurs to me a film made in the Uk, whose title and > S> director evades me, in which a 1st person viewpoint predominates > S> thanks tot he sci-fi motif of cerbrally implanted video. Can anyone > S> remeber this little gem? > > I believe you're thinking of Bertrand Tavernier's _Deathwatch_, with > Havey Keitel (based on the british SF novel _The Continuous Katherine > Mortenhoe_ by D.G. Compton). > > -- > Jim Flannery > [log in to unmask] > > * > * > Film-Philosophy salon > After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. > To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] > Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html > For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. > * > Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com > Contact: [log in to unmask] > ** > > > > * > * > Film-Philosophy salon > After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. > To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] > Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html > For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. > * > Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com > Contact: [log in to unmask] > ** > * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] ** * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **