SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our IDIOSYNCHRATIC EASTER series! Saturday, April 16, 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 AU HAZARD BALTHAZAR(1966, wri/dir by Robert Bresson, Janus, 95mns, 35mm presentation)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***ALL AUDIENCE are still 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.
***As of April 1, 2022, masks are now optional for indoor theater events if you're fully vaccinated. Anyone with a vaccination exemption can still attend as long as they have proof of a RT-PCR level negative Covid test ( within 72 hours of the event) but will be required to wear a mask. We will continue to update our protocols with the dynamic situation.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE BRING YOUR VACCINATION CARD (digital cards accepted).
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!
French Filmmaker Robert Bresson made many powerful movies. The majority we hope to show throughout our seasons.
The most powerful (for this programmer at least) is also, in some ways, his most tender: Au Hazard Balthazar.
The story follows Balthazar, a donkey, from his birth throughout his entire life, as he passes through the hands of several owners-some kind, some cruel, some indifferent. Specifically, a French country girl, Marie, who also has her own trials and tribulations, comes in and out of his life at key moments for both of them.
It's hard to fully put the power of this movie into words. This is its strength. This is cinema. If words could do it, you wouldn't need a movie to communicate cinematically where words falter.
Balthazar, though we never really know what he's thinking, seems to take everything in stride with a kind of acceptance, forgiveness, and grace that becomes overpowering and sublime over time.
To say more would be "gilding the lily". The best way to discover this movie is to see it. We hope it will affect and move you as profoundly as it moved us. No less than Jean Luc Godard once summarized Au Hazard Balthazar as "the world in an hour and a half". Not one to usually be so direct and candid, Godard, among many others, realized that Bresson had touched some deep mysterious sense.
A beautiful film. We can think of few films as powerful to show the eve before Easter.
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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