Monday, August 11, 6:00 p.m. | Peer into the unknown, embrace the ambiguity, and show up to the Film Center for a screening that is entirely, absolutely, and completely “to be announced”—quite literally until the moment the lights go down. Starting the week prior to each screening, we’ll drop hints via social media and on our website: year of release, runtime, genre, maybe even a cast member or two if we’re feeling generous. Feel free to guess, but we’re not telling, at least not until showtime. Feeling lucky? Drop your guess in our Mystery Movie Monday box outside the theater. One right guesser will win a prize pack with two complimentary tickets plus popcorn and drink vouchers for your next visit to the Film Center. No refunds and no spoiling the surprise!

CLUES:

  1. Not an American film.
  2. One of three films the director made in one year (this film was the second of the three). 
  3. This film includes direct addresses to the audience, on-screen text, and the occasional clapper-board. 🎬
  4. 50 years after this film was made, another movie was made about the relationship between the Mystery Movie's director and their relationship with one of the members of the film's cast. 
  5. This film includes a great deal of the color red. 

Past Mystery Movie Monday films include Jacques Tati's PLAYTIME (1967), Hirokazu Kore-eda's AFTER LIFE (1998), Donna Deitch's DESERT HEARTS (1985), King Hu's DRAGON INN (1967), John Huston's MALTESE FALCON (1941) on 35mm, Wong Kar Wai's CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1999), Spike Lee's CROOKLYN (1994), Glauber Rocha's BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL (1964), F.W. Marnau's NOSFERATU (1922), Lina Wertmüller's SWEPT AWAY (1974), Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL (1930), Sean Baker's TAKE OUT (2004), and Jafar Panahi's 3 FACES (2018).

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu