SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! series! Friday, February 11, 2022
LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021
*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate. We’ll have staff to help guide/park you.
730pm MATADOR (1986, co-wri/dir by Pedro Almodovar, Sony Pictures Classics, 106mns, 35mm)
945pm LAW OF DESIRE(1987, wri/dir by Pedro Almodovar, Sony Pictures Classics, 102mns, 35mm)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***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 an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level 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 WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING INSIDE THE THEATER AS A SAFETY PRECAUTION.
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 your 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!
Any self-respecting programmer can't have a series called LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! without including a few Pedro Almodovar movies. And we're showing two of his most fascinating. On 35mm!
Almodovar has had one of the most fascinating careers of any modern master director moving from outrageous punk rock transgressive cinema to heartfelt modern art melodramas.
His middle period (of which these two movies arise) finds Almodovar in the dynamic flux of the earliest and latest stage and produces some of his best work.
Matador has the outrageous premise of two sexually frustrated serial killers-Diego, a former bullfighter, and Maria-slowly falling in love with each other. But it also marks Almodovar's willingness to go dark for the first time with his material-an instinct that has produced some of his greatest work (Bad Education, The Skin I Live In, Live Flesh, Pain and Glory...). The movie is mid-80's pop art blast of shocking imagery and scenes but there's an emotional core about trauma here that is fascinating.
Almodovar next made Law of Desire which centers around the strange love triangle of a gay director, his intense young lover, and the lover's transgender sister who is performing for the director. Decades ahead of its time in its frank, funny, profound, unapologetic look at LGBTQ issues, Law of Desire also begins Almodovar's long cycle of semi-autobiographical melodramas that explore the joys and pains of post-Franco Madrid and Spain.
These two movies are sexually frank, all kinds of gloriously beautiful and strange, filled with Almodovar's incredible cinema AND humanism.
Bring your loved one or meet your loved one here and let's watch some amazing cinema 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 SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:
We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.
We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.
There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.
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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
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