SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our PALM SPRINGS 70MM GETAWAY Film Festival, Sunday, May 7th, 2023
LOCATION: Palm Springs Cultural Center (Camelot Theater) 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262
SPECIAL NOTE: Take a cinematic vacation to Palm Springs, California. We're showing 70MM classic movies Friday, May 5, 2023 through Sunday, May 7, 2023 at the historic Camelot Theater: built SPECIFICALLY for 70MM. (The Master on Friday, Titanic on Saturday & 2001 on Sunday)
On Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 11p-2am, we host an afterparty at the Amigo Room at the Ace Hotel, Palm Springs. During the days, you have all of downtown Palm Springs for vintage shopping, eating, hanging out, relaxing by the pool.
We have a discount code for folks wanting to stay at the Ace (use code: ARTSHOW) although there may be even better deals if folks do some internet sleuthing both at the Ace and around Palm Springs.
2pm 2001 (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick, MGM, 143mns, 70mm)
Recently voted by 480 directors in the Sight and Sound 2022 Poll as the Best Movie of All Time, 2001 still stands as one of cinema’s pinnacle achievements.
Everyone from James Cameron to Martin Scorsese to Steven Spielberg to Christopher Nolan have cited 2001 as the high opera apotheosis of everything that cinema can do.
2001, co-written by sci-fi master novelist Arthur C. Clarke, is almost certainly the greatest science fiction movie ever made. Shot on native 70mm, taking 4 years total to make from pre-production to final release, 2001 tells its mysterious story of human, alien, and computer interaction across three discrete time periods.
First, we get a fascinating first movement a million years in our past when our primate ancient ancestors first came to the realization that certain objects could be used as tools and weapons and thus putting us at the top of the food chain and on our way towards rapid technological advance. This advance is accompanied by the strange appearance of an obsidian black monolith that may not be of this earth.
A million years later, a similar monolith is discovered buried on the moon. But since the Americans have discovered it, they hide the discovery from the rest of the world under the cover story that their moon base is ravaged by a strange plague. However, when they examine the monolith, it emits an ear piercing radio-like signal that points them in the direction of the moons of Jupiter.
Finally, an American spaceship, helmed by astronauts Frank and Dave and the most advanced AI computer system to date, HAL, (while the rest of the crew are in suspended animation) head towards Jupiter to find out what lies on the other side of that mysterious radio signal.
But along the way, the HAL computer system begins to show signs of being all too human and even. . .emotional. . .
Stanley Kubrick made a career out of taking iconoclastic chances with wildly ambitious movies that should have been impossible to make. Yet Kubrick dared and succeeded in making them.
2001 is, interestingly, Kubrick’s most blindingly optimistic work. For all its irony and insightful views into human violence, AI technology, and error, 2001 ultimately dares to suggest there may life and intelligence in the universe that WANTS to connect with us and help us in our own advancement.
The final part of 2001 remains, to this day, one of the most singular sequences ever put to celluloid. Come see it on 70mm, the way Kubrick always intended for you to experience this massive work.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
ANSWERS FOR OUR 70MM PALM SPRINGS GETAWAY 2023
PACKAGE DEAL:
We are offering an MOVIES + AFTERPARTY PASS for $60/per person. This gets you into all three 70MM movies (The Master, Titanic, 2001) and Saturday's afterparty at the Ace Hotel Amigo Room (ticket gets you admission + one free drink). Or you can purchase the MOVIES ONLY PASS for $45/per person if you would like to skip the party. Finally, you can purchase each movie and the party ticket al a carte!
ACCOMMODATIONS:
We have a discount code for folks wanting to stay at the Ace (use code: ARTSHOW) although there may be even better deals if folks do some internet sleuthing both at the Ace and around Palm Springs.
REFUNDS:
We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.
However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening, good for 90 days. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)
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