SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
A CASSAVETES PAIR 35mm! Thursday, November 4, 2021
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.
8pm HUSBANDS (1970, wri/dir John Cassavetes, Columbia, 142mns, 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.
***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!
John Cassavetes' career had a familiar pattern. He would go all out blood, sweat, and tears to make an independent movie he believed in, often mortgaging his house or taking sub-par acting jobs to hustle cash, and it would be a MASSIVE HIT (Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence). Then a studio would offer to back him and he would have a miserable time of it.
Still, two of his absolute best movies were made within the studio system just after the surprise success of his years in the making indie Faces.
We show both those movies (the second is Minnie and Moskowitz which we show November 18, 2021 @ 8p) this month.
First we kick off with Husbands, one of this programmer's personal favorite Cassavetes, a stunning, honest, unpredictable, wild work (aren't they all!).
Gus, Harry, and Archie, three middle aged friends, are shocked at the unexpected death of their fourth friend Stuart.
The death rocks their middle aged, married lives and they spend the next few days wandering around New York together before spontaneously deciding to go to London for a "Wild Boys" weekend.
Though the movie is filled with Cassavetes' trademark spontaneity and scenes of wild tone changes, it is also anchored by incredible filmmaking and editing which somehow gives the movie an intense, hilarious rigor.
Husbands shocked the studio and audiences in its refusal to hide the huge flaws of each of the men. The movie touches on alcoholism, adultery, violence, anger in a nakedly honest Cassavetes' way. It's likely that much of America wasn't ready to see a movie that so sincerely acted as a mirror to the mid-20th century Male persona.
As with all his great movies, Cassavetes NEVER judges any of his characters. But neither does he excuse their behavior OR glorify it. The singular genius of Cassavetes was always to celebrate life while being RIGOROUSLY honest about everything.
There was no one like Cassavetes before he arrived and there really hasn't been anyone like him since. A singular uncontrollable life force who dared to tackle everyday realities no one else could ever film or face up to.
By the way, this movie is also hilarious. So come watch one of Cassavetes' most divisive (but for this programmer, one of his greatest) yet personal movies.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
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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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