If It Bleeds, It Leads: Christine

ChristineDirected by Antonio CamposOpens October 14
In 1974, a 29-year-old Sarasota talk-show host named Christine Chubbuck shot herself on live television after reading a pointed statement about her station’s recent selling out to sensationalism. Notwithstanding the likely coincidental parallels in 1976’s Network—whose laid-off, “mad as hell” anchor Howard Beale vows to off himself on-air—it’s taken almost four decades for this woman’s sad legacy