The Vanishing

press release: The Netherlands | 1988 | DCP | 101 min. | Dutch with English subtitles

Director: George Sluizer; Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege 

After his girlfriend Saskia disappears at a rest stop, Rex (Bervoets) spends the better part of three years searching for her. Finally, Saskia’s abductor approaches Rex with promises of information, setting off a cat-and-mouse game that results in one of the most shocking endings of all time. An intelligent, unique thriller, The Vanishing has long since earned its place as a modern suspense classic.

Our numerous and diverse Fall 2018 special presentations include a screening of an excellent vintage print of Roger Corman’s low-budget The Little Shop of Horrors; Douglas Sirk’s masterful melodrama All That Heaven Allows and Todd Hayne’s reworking of Sirk, Far from Heaven; rare 35mm prints of Antonioni’s counter-culture classic Zabriskie Point and Claire Denis sibling saga Nenette and Boni; a screening of the popular recent documentary The Eagle Huntress with producer Stacey Reiss in person; plus new digital restorations of two cult horror comedies from the early 1980s: Basket Case and Strange Behavior, as well as George Sluizer’s great thriller The Vanishing, Powell and Pressburger’s repressed nuns classic Black Narcissus, and the landmark independent Buddies, the first movie to depict the AIDS crisis.

All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public.