SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! series! Thursday, February 17, 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 BAND OF OUTSIDERS (1964, wri/dir by Jean Luc Godard, Rialto, 97mns, 35mm)

930pm PIERROT LE FOU (1965, wri/dir by Jean Luc Godard, Rialto, 110mns, 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!

One cannot have cinema without Jean Luc Godard. It may not be overstatement to say that Godard rejuvenated cinema for the next 60 years with his wild (and wildly successful) experiments with editing, dialogue, sound + image, humor, irony.

Tonight, we look at two of his absolute best French new wave movies. On 35mm!

First up is BAND OF OUTSIDERS, a movie so influential Tarantino named his production company after it. It tells the story of Odile (played by New Wave star Anna Karenina) and her ephemeral romance/crime partnership with two men in her English class.

But as always, though the movie does actually tell a kind of heist/crime story, its really Godard's wild experiments from scene to scene that give it its forever pulsing vital creativity.

Godard often would write the scenes/dialogue the morning of the shoot and thus his cast and crew would have to learn their lines, figure out where the story was going, in the moment.

In most other hands this approach would most likely be slipshod and disasterous but somehow Godard was so talented he was able to marry pre-planning with improvisation to create an infinitude of joyous happy cinematic accidents.

Take for instance the world famous "dance" sequence here in this movie that spontaneously occurs in the middle of the narrative. Or watch his endlessly fascinating experiments with sound and image. This is just a masterclass in playing with the form.

We follow this with PIERROT LE FOU, maybe the pinnacle of Godard's 1960's New Wave period. Here disillusioned married Ferdinand (French superstar Jean Paul Belmondo) reconnects with his ex-girlfriend Mariane (Anna Karenina again) at a mindless party (hilariously shot with different colored filters in cinemascope) and they go on the run.

However while they're being chased by gangsters, Ferdinand begins to suspect that Mariane is also playing him. Or is he playing her? Or are they playing each other?

Late 50's-late 60's Godard is as thrilling as 70's Fassbinder or 1930's Renoir or 1920's Eisenstein. You're watching a movie director somehow push forward the entire form into a new area that will inspire a whole generation of moviemakers to come (including Scorsese most notably).

So come watch two stone cold fun bubbly French new wave masterpieces. On 35mm! And get inspired by a master.

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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