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Cold Lazarus
1996 · TV series · 65 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Dennis Potter
Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of pancreatic cancer. Forming the second half of a pair with the television serial Karaoke, it is Potter's sole science fiction work. In a bleak, synthetic 24th-century dystopian Britain, scientists work on reviving the mind of 20th-century writer Daniel Feeld, whose head was frozen after Feeld's death shortly after the events of 'Karaoke'. Progress has not been made, so discontinuation is considered, but media mogul David Siltz, who has been spying on the project, envisages a fortune from broadcasting Feeld's memories on TV.
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I found that I actually only really like a movie or tv show if it is infinitely (aka a lot; more than 50x without getting bored) rewatchable (for me obviously); not many movies are. Some favorites which fall in that category; Alien, Aliens, The Thing, Das Boot, Cold Lazarus (the Dennis P one), ...
It is very personal as looking through what other people mention ; many of those I couldn't sit through once, but if friends tell me to give it another go, I watch 2-10 times to see if it grows. Rarely it does, but there have been cases. Notably everyone likes Pulp Fiction; I saw it at least 15 times and find it unwatchable.
I have a vague memory of watching a sci-fi mini-series in the nineties with a similar premise… something with "Lazarus" in the title. Ah, found it: Cold Lazarus.
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Since everyone is sharing related films, might I recommend Dennis Potter’s "Karaoke" and "Cold Lazarus", which deals directly with this theme?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaoke_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus
>Slices of neural tissue were even able to conduct electrical signals (for ethical reasons, the researchers had generally suppressed that capacity in the animals’ whole brains).
Stuff like this always makes me think of Dennis Potter's 'Cold Lazarus', I highly recommend that people watch it. Especially if working in the research end of neurology. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115140/