SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! series! Wednesday, February 9, 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.
8pm MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002, written by Nia Vardalos, dir by Joel Zwick, Playtone, 92mns, 35mm )
*This movie is programmed by Secret Movie Club team member Casey Young for his birthday!
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!
Look. Sometimes you just gotta let loose, relax, laugh, and have a good time.
Not every story has to end in unrequited torment, existential angst, and political and societal decay and gridlock.
Sometimes it's fun to just go to the movies and have a good time. So tonight, as part of our Valentine's Month long LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! series, we're screening one of the biggest, most surprising, sleeper hit feel good movies of all time: Nia Vardalos's My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
What might have made this movie such a surprise monster hit (even Steven Spielberg acknowledged it had kicked the butt of his own movie War of the Worlds) is that it both celebrated and acknowledged the craziness of family. We all come from our own tribes and our own tribes have their own rituals, their own strengths, and their own brand of crazy.
Writer and star Nia Vardalos gets the most romcom mileage (possibly ever) out of showing just how great and maddening family can be when her character Toula gets engaged to non-Greek Ian thus sending her entire family into a tail spin.
Because it's very rare for a Greek to marry a non-Greek.
This is the kind of movie you can see with your whole family or take your significant other who hates the "dark" movies you're always watching to.
And if you just go with it, Preston Sturges "Sullivan's Travels" style, you might just discover how important and spirit-lifting movies like MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING are to a movie going public that every now and then enjoys being reminded how joyful life can be.
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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