Stanley Schtinter, an artist and the author of a new book titled Last Movies, was curious to find out what film famous people had seen before they died. What spurred this project on was Schtinter's fascination about the former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who had been assassinated in 1986 as he was leaving a movie theater in Stockholm. He watched The Mozart Brothers by Suzanne Osten, who had coincidentally offered Palme a role in the film.
It was these coincidences perhaps, that led Schtinter down this path. For example, what ties JFK and Elvis Presley together? Well, the book answers that. Apparently, they both saw a Bond film before their unfortunate deaths. JFK watched From Russia With Love, while Elvis Presley watched The Spy Who Loved Me.
Another fascinating but eerie coincidence recorded in the book is the film that director Rainer Werner Fassbinder saw. It was 20,000 Years in Sing Sing. Coincidentally, the day he died was the same date shown on a telegram in the film. It was dated June 10, 1932 and Fassbinder died June 10, 1982.
Other famous people included in the book were Franz Kafka, Charlie Chaplin, and Stanley Kubrick. They too have an unseeming connection which the book unfurled. Kafka watched Chaplin's The Kid, and Chaplin watched Kubrick's Barry Lyndon before he died. Finally, Kubrick watched a trailer of his own film, Eyes Wide Shut.
The book has not yet hit the shelves but preorders are currently being accepted. -via Nag on the Lake
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