SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our ANIME APRIL/IT'S GOING TO GET WILD series! Friday, April 8, 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 HEAVY METAL (1981, dir by Gerald Potterton, Columbia, 90mns, 35mm presentation)

930pm LIQUID SKY (1983, dir by Slava Tsukerman, 118mns, 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!

Tonight we're diving head first (maybe into a bottomless pool) of early 1980's cult classics.

As part of our April Anime series, we wanted to take a look at two movies that influenced the anime, techno, rave renaissance that would blossom in the mid to late 1980's and affect almost all anime thereafter.

First up is the horny R rated sci fi animated movie whose poster graced many an early 1980's teenage boy's bedroom or college dorm Heavy Metal. An anthology movie adapted from the comic book of the same name, produced by Ghostbusters' Ivan Reitman, scored by Elmer Bernstein, and featuring the voices of Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy (!!) among others, Heavy Metal tells a series of trippy sci-fi short stories with noir and speculative sci-fi plots laced with a healthy dose of giddy adoloscent sexual fantasy.

It's best not to take this stuff too seriously but as a time capsule of the early 1980's and one of the first attempts to make a more teenage and adult oriented serious animated movie, Heavy Metal definitely acts as a kind of American/Canadian primer "ur-text" for later anime super hits like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Neon Evangelion Genesis.

We follow this up with the even stranger, near indescribable new wave early 1980's cult movie Liquid Sky. Directed by Slava Tsukerman and shot in mind-blowing neon and day glo colors by Yuri Neyman, Liquid Sky (an invented slang term for heroin) plays like a Soviet fever dream of New York's early 80's new wave scene.

Transgressive to the extreme with a proto-Titane and Under the Skin storyline, Liquid Sky tells the story of androgynous bisexual model Margaret who discovers she can kill anyone she has sex with by making them reach orgasm (while she herself, paradoxically, finds she can not). Little does she know that aliens who have landed on the roof are using her to extract endorphins from her sexual partners.

This movie is a wild fever dream of 1980's rebellion against Reganism, rigid gender roles, and homophobia. Not for the faint of heart, it was 1983's biggest grossing indie movie and served as the basis for the early 2000's "electroclash" scene in clubs in Brooklyn, Berlin, Paris, and London.

So come buckle up for two wild cult rides from the early 1980's that, in their own ways, primed a generation of American youth for the anime tidal wave that was just around the corner.

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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