The Secret Cinema

The Secret Cinema

1968
Comedy
Short Film
27m
Almost 30 years before Peter Weir brought us The Truman Show, cinematic cult figure Paul Bartel (of Eating Raoul and Lust in the Dust fame) was the 30-year-old auteur of this half-hour film, a somewhat sleazy bit of surrealism on a similar subject. Amy Vane plays a woman whose every move is recorded on film. She didn't ask for this scrutiny: the woman is the victim of a voyeuristic director, who contrives to hide cameras wherever she goes and show the results in a theater. (Surreal Moviez)
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The Secret Cinema

1968
Comedy
Short Film
27m
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Rated 04 Feb 2016
6
34th
Would've been far more effective as an atmospheric science-fiction drama. As a comedy, it's just treading water really.
Rated 29 Aug 2016
74
40th
Funny premise, so-so execution. There are some highlight moments, but most of it goes too far on the wacky side for my taste without really pulling off the humour needed to make that work.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
80
87th
I can think of a few films that would borrow from silent era aesthetics and it's usually unconvincing. This is brilliant, and effortlessly weaves its gimmicks into something unminstakably different and more modern, but perhaps more Leonard Kastle/John Waters than Cahiers du Cinema.
Rated 11 Dec 2012
74
41st
A lot of cool stuff going on here. Fun and moves quickly.

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