SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our HOLIDAY MOVIE PARTY series ! Friday, December 17, 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.
730pm CHILDREN OF PARADISE(1945, written by Jacques Prevert, dir by Marcel Carne, Janus, 190mns)
NOTE: We will play this movie with a short 10 minute intermission between the two parts as it was originally played.
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. If you have a religious exemption, please have proof of a negative 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 BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES 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!
Yet another movie in our series that isn't explicitly a holiday movie while somehow feeling like a wonderful cinematic holiday gift from the movie Gods, Jacques Prevert's & Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise is one of the greatest movies ever made you may have never seen.
It focuses on Garrance, a French courtesan, and the four men who love her in different ways all amidst the magical ambience of the French theater of the 1820's-1830's. In fact, "Paradise" is a colloquial French way of describing the balcony section of the French theater where the working class would sit. If an actor could get their applause and enthusiasm that actor soon would be beloved by the country.
The movie is divided into two parts: The Boulevard of Crime (Part I) and The Man in White (Part II). Written by one of France's greatest ever screenwriters, Jacques Prevert, and directed by the exquisite Marcel Carne, Children of Paradise is a revelation in how shockingly complex, humane, magical, yet commitedly realistic it is. It's impossible to describe its tone. One must experience it.
No less than Francois Truffaut said he'd trade all his movies to be able to say he'd directed Children of Paradise. And Marlon Brando went on the record as saying it was probably the greatest movie ever made.
Like a great Charles Dickens' novel, Children of Paradise pulsates with vitality, character, twists and turns, before a stunning and brilliant ending. Come join us and give yourself the holiday gift of one of the greatest cinematic stories ever put to celluloid.
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.
There is, however, free parking all around the theater on Wilson and Bay Streets.
HOW CAN WE STAY ON TOP OF NEWLY ANNOUNCED 35MM SCREENINGS, EVENTS, ETC?
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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.