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The Secret Cinema

  • 19681968
  • 27m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
382
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Amy Vane in The Secret Cinema (1968)
ShortComedyHorror
A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
382
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
128,286
16,887
  • Director
    • Paul Bartel
  • Writer
    • Paul Bartel
  • Stars
    • Amy Vane
    • Philip Carlson
    • Barry Dennen
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  • Director
    • Paul Bartel
  • Writer
    • Paul Bartel
  • Stars
    • Amy Vane
    • Philip Carlson
    • Barry Dennen
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    • 12User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Amy Vane
    • Jane
    Philip Carlson
    • Dick
    Barry Dennen
    Barry Dennen
    • Psychiatrist
    Connie Ellison
    • Helen
    Gordon Felio
    • Mr. Troppogrosso
    Camille Fife
    • Second Secretary
    Glenn Johnson
    • Disc Jockey
    • (voice)
    Mara Lepmanis
    • First Secretary
    Estelle Omens
    • Jane's Mother
    Mimi Randolph
    • Waitress…
    • Director
      • Paul Bartel
    • Writer
      • Paul Bartel
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    • Trivia
      The film was remade as Secret Cinema (1986), in which the writer and director Paul Bartel played the psychiatrist Dr. Shreck.
    • Goofs
      The shadow of the camera is visible during the track into the restaurant.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Gremlins 2 - uusi pesue (1990)

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    leave this gem alone, Mr Spielberg
    Okay, you've chanced to see something that sticks in your craw after gawd only knows how many decades - much like "Eclipse of the Sun Virgin" and a few other rarities from the day of true "underground" film. So you decide to check it out on IMDb just to see if anyone else has had the same grace and seen this movie. And you find out that it has already been filtered and reduced to some pablum for the masses already, and for TV, no less. Leave this gem alone, Mr Spielberg. The black and white ORIGINAL is so powerful and fun and dark that doing anything with the content or.... needless to say, Hollywood seems to have run out of ideas, or original ideas, or any means to make a buck without investing a whole lot of energy (as I see it). This wonderful movie should be on any serious film buff's list of must sees. Are you paranoid? This movie gives credence to anyone and all of us who have felt that there ain't an inch of life left to ourselves and that your meager little life is an open book for other's amusement - and our personal horror. Love love love this film.
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    • poguemathon
    • Sep 3, 2004

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    • Release date
      • May 1, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Plaza Hotel - 750 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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    • Budget
      • $5,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      27 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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