Last Movies

Stanley Schtinter / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 86 min

The humor is pitch black and the level of detail completely overwhelming in British artist and filmmaker Stanley Schtinter’s ‘Last Movies’, which takes its simple concept to the point of absurdity, with entertaining and thought-provoking results: What would film history look like if the timeline was determined by the more or less random movies celebrities and cultural figures watched before (and sometimes while) they died?

From Franz Kafka (‘The Kid’) to Kurt Cobain (‘The Piano’), Schtinter leads us down a rabbit hole where one bizarre and gallows-humorous coincidence leads to another, until patterns emerge across time and place. The depth and detail of his historical research is carried to its conclusion by Jeremy Irons, who narrates the film clips that illustrate Schtinter’s collage work. ‘Last Movies’ is sharp, witty, deeply original and radically unpredictable. The natural culmination of an art project that also includes a book of the same name and a series of screenings.