SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our SECRET MOVIE CLUB TEAM MEMBER BIRTHDAY Series, Saturday, April 30, 2022
LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please note we have moved the location from the Million Dollar Theater to our Secret Movie Club Theater (just 5 minutes away) due to a scheduling conflict at the Million Dollar.
**We will open doors 1 HOUR before each screening.
SPECIAL NOTE: Guest Programmed by Secret Movie Club Chief Design Officer Heather Monahan for her birthday. Happy birthday, Heather!
5pm BOTTLE ROCKET(1996, co-wri/dir by Wes Anderson, Sony, 91mns, 35mm)
730p RUSHMORE (1998, co-wri/dir by Wes Anderson, Disney, 98mns, 35mm)
930p THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001, co-wri/dir by Wes Anderson, Disney, 109mns)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
****As of April 1, 2022, we are now enacting the following post COVID surge protocols in line with CDC and LA County recommendations and our own discretion:
-We still ask that everyone bring their vaccinations cards (physical or digital on your phone) and/or a negative PCR level test within the last 72 hours and be ready to show proof of such vaccination and/or PCR test at the door.
-MASKS are now strongly recommended but not required for all AUDIENCE who are fully vaccinated. However, we will continue to REQUIRE MASKS for all AUDIENCE who are not vaccinated.
HOW TO:
1)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!
2)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!
Today, we celebrate Wes Anderson and our Chief Design Officer Heather Monahan's birthday! Heather has selected an amazing program of BOTTLE ROCKET and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS and Secret Movie Club Programmer Craig Hammill has sandwiched RUSHMORE in there because. . .we might as well go all out.
All on 35mm prints!
Wes Anderson's first three features might now safely be called his "first or early period". All three were co-written with his college best friend and (still) frequent lead actor Owen Wilson. All three find Anderson exploring themes of family, friendship, and what it means to be American. And all three center around misfits who simultaneously charm and enrage everyone around them.
First up is Anderson's debut feature Bottle Rocket which centers around ambitious if inept amateur thief Dignan and the team he puts together to pull off the first of several heists in his "75 year plan".
In many ways, Bottle Rocket is the most naturalistic of all Anderson's movies as the seeds of his formal experimentation are already evident but the real focus is on the friendship and frustrations of interpersonal relationships. This is the movie that launched Anderson into the world scene of cinema and was based on a 1992 short of the same name he shot with Owen and Luke Wilson in essentially the same roles.
After a one hour break for dinner/drinks (if you want at next door's Grand Central Market), we screen Rushmore, the movie that once and for all put Anderson in the firmament of his generation of directors.
Rushmore tells the tale of charismatic high schooler Max who, if he isn't actually a good (or even decent) student, is easily the most driven at his private Texas academy. When Max develops a crush on the new first grade teacher, Rosemary Cross, and strikes up an unusual friendship with chain smoking high school parent and local rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray, at his peak), he sets in motion a hilarious and heart breaking chain of events that shakes up each of their lives.
Here we see the Anderson style achieve a kind of beautiful golden mean. Filled with great needle drops, the character in center framing, the sequence titling, and acute design sense, it also is clearly a deeply semi-autobiographical comedy about Anderson himself and his own feelings of misfitness in his adoloscence.
Finally, we wrap up tonight's trilogy with Anderson achieving full bloom in his 2001 epic family comedy The Royal Tenenbaums. Anchored by a late career best performance from Gene Hackman (who was reportedly frustrated on set but you would never know it from the final product), The Royal Tenenbaums is a kind of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson riff on Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.
A family of child geniuses are now all broken and dysfunctional adults whose lives are abruptly rocked when absentee and self-centered father Royal Tenenbaum (Hackman) returns to their lives. Though he claims to be dying and wanting a reconciliation, it soon is revealed that he's up to his old tricks.
Anderson, who clearly gained confidence with each feature, is in full epic tapestry mode here with a vibrant ensemble cast that includes regulars Owen and Luke Wilson but expands out to Hackman, Angelica Huston, Danny Glover, Ben Stiller, and Gwyneth Patrow among others.
So get ready to watch how a young director from Texas gets his first movie made and quickly, determinedly builds it into a lifelong singular career. 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 any or all movies on any given day, you can go to ADD ONS and pre-order an all day $6 Grand Central Parking Lot Pass (while SUPPLIES last). 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.
HOW WILL OUR STAFF MAKE SURE THE THEATER IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE
Anyone not observing safe current 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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