The Secret Cinema

This article is about the film. For the UK-based events company started in 2007, see Secret Cinema (events company).

The Secret Cinema
Directed by	Paul Bartel
Produced by	Paul Bartel Bob Schulenberg
Written by	Paul Bartel
Starring	Amy Vane Philip Carlson Barry Dennen Connie Ellison Gordon Felio Estelle Omens
Music by	The Rusty Nails
Cinematography	Fred Wellington
Edited by	Sam Moore
Distributed by	The Film-Makers' Cooperative
Release dates	May 1, 1968 (1968-05-01)
Running time	30 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

The Secret Cinema is a short black-and-white film produced, written, and directed by Paul Bartel, and released in 1968.

Plot summary

Jane (Amy Vane) is a secretary who doesn't know that her life is being filmed and shown in theaters, or that those who are closest to her are in on it. She's being sexually harassed by her corpulent boss (Gordon Felio), humiliated by her fey boyfriend, given the gaslight treatment by the people around her, et cetera, and she doesn't know why... but she's starting to suspect that something isn't quite right.

See also

• List of American films of 1968
• List of films featuring surveillance

Notes

• In 1986, Paul Bartel remade the film as an episode of Amazing Stories (season 1, episode 20), in which Bartel also played a part.
• This film has been released on videocassette by Rhino Entertainment, packaged with a 7-minute erotic short entitled The Naughty Nurse.
• In 1998, the premise of someone's life being secretly filmed was used in The Truman Show.
• In 2012 The Secret Cinema, along with The Naughty Nurse, was released as a bonus feature on The Criterion Collection's Blu-ray release of Eating Raoul.

References

• The Secret Cinema at IMDb
• The Secret Cinema at AllMovie