SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our KUBRICK KALEIDOSCOPE & MOVIE HOLIDAY PARTY series! Saturday, December 11, 2021
LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater Movie Palace, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013
**We will open doors 1 HOUR before each screening time so audience can have plenty of time to enter, maintain 6 feet of distance, pick up or buy concessions/drink, and get their seats. We will have staff who will help guide and direct audience to their seats.
630pm A CLOCKWORK ORANGE(1971, adap/dir by Stanley Kubrick, Warner Brothers, 136mns, 35MM)
930pm EYES WIDE SHUT (1999, co-adapt/dir by Stanley Kubrick, Warner Brothers, 159mns, 35MM)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
****Starting November 4th, 2021 ALL AUDIENCE will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. PLEASE HAVE YOUR VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL VACCINATION CARD READY BEFORE ENTERING THE THEATER. If you have a religious exemption, please have proof of a negative COVID test within 3 days of the screening.
***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.
***EVERYONE WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE BRING AND BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE THEATER. You will be able to eat and drink concessions without a mask. But AT ALL OTHER TIMES, MASKS ARE REQUIRED.
2)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our tables in our lobby prior to the screening.
We will be able to sell concessions & merchandise at the theater. But it will make everything much quicker and easier if you pre-order!
3)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. Let’s all do our part to beat this thing so we can go back to the complete movie going experience!
It has all come to this! We finally get to close out our Kubrick Kaleidoscope series with the final two movies we haven't yet shown: 1971's A Clockwork Orange and 1999's Eyes Wide Shut.
In some strange ways, these movies actually go together. Both feature a "first half/second half" through the looking glass structure. Both deal with how the working class/middle class find themselves at the mercy of the strange and nefarious dealings of the shadowy rich and powerful and politically connected.
But of course, like all Kubrick, they are also completely their own things.
A Clockwork Orange was Kubrick's follow up after 2001 and it created a firestorm of controversy. Based on the Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange is narrated by and follows "ultra-violent" teen gang leader Alex who lives in a not so distant English future where he engages in tons of sex, violence, hooliganism with his band of "droogs". But when Alex is finally caught, he volunteers to undergo a new government experiment that promises to render him "safe" for society again and an early release.
But Kubrick and Burgess ask, what does a society do to Alex or anyone when they take away their free will? Even if they're morally reprehensible.
Filled with some of Kubrick's most iconic imagery and sequences, A Clockwork Orange is still a live wire film 50 years later.
We follow that with Kubrick's final movie: the Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman starring Eyes Wide Shut. Eyes Wide Shut had been a passion project of Kubrick's since the 1960's. Based on the Arthur Schnitzler novella Traumnovelle (Dream Novel) which took place in early 20th century Vienna, Eyes Wide Shut transplants the story to modern day New York.
After an unsettling holiday party where they are both propositioned sexually by other people, married couple Bill and Alice Hartford smoke a joint and get ready to hang out. But soon Alice, upset at Bill's presumption that she Alice has sexual feelings for no one but Bill, reveals to Bill that she does INDEED feel sexually towards other men.
Bill, upset and bothered, then goes on a series of house calls (he's a doctor to the rich) and soon descends into an odyssey into the night of sexual strangeness.
Eyes Wide Shut like almost all Kubrick movies divided audiences upon its release who were expecting an erotic suspense thriller and instead got a dark odyssey into the married female and male sexual psyche.
What no one could have predicted was that Kubrick would end his career with one of his most optimistic and affirmative movies (alongside 2001) surprisingly asking unsettling questions about the rich and powerful but also affirming the centrality of the family.
A fascinating work and one of Kubrick's greatest movies (in this programmer's opinion) Eyes Wide Shut also takes place during the holidays! So it's a Christmas movie.
Come join us as we celebrate the master in style with two of his most provocative works. On 35mm!
Best always,
Craig Hammill
35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR IN-DOOR THEATER SCREENINGS
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 us at: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.
HELPFUL MILLION DOLLAR THEATER MOVIE PALACE PARKING TIPS:
If you are attending all movies on any given day (the double or triple feature), you can go to ADD ONS and pre-order an all day $6 Grand Central Parking Lot Pass. The Grand Central Parking Lot is at the corner of 3rd Street and Hill Street just 1 block from the Million Dollar Theater entrance on 3rd & Broadway.
Folks just attending one feature can also park at this lot and as long as you grab food/drink from GCM you can get a 90 minute validation stamp that will help the cost of parking.
HOW WILL OUR STAFF MAKE SURE THE THEATER IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE:
We will have staff in the theater at all times who make sure everyone is wearing masks and obeying protocols. We will have signage at entrance, markings at concessions, restrooms, etc so folks keep 6 ft distance at all times.
Anyone not observing safe protocols will kindly be asked to leave. On top of this, we’ll be making announcements at the head of each screening to make sure everyone understands the rules & regs!
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