SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! series! Friday, February 4, 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.

715pm SENSE & SENSIBILITY (1995, adap by Emma Thompson dir by Ang Lee, Columbia, 136mns, 35mm)

950pm BRIDGET JONES DIARY (2004, dir by Sharon Maguire, Miramax, 92mns)

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!

Yeah, that's right! We're showing four movies February 2022 that star Hugh Grant. Why? Because Hugh Grant rom-coms are the bomb! Somehow Grant was able to age, change, weather personal controversies, to make a series of hugely enjoyable romantic comedies where he often worked to subvert or expand his initial "charming, dashingly handsome, innocent stud but he doesn't know it" persona.

First up, we're doing a double bill of Jane Austen adapted and/or inspired rom-coms.

Emma Thompson's adaptation of Sense of Sensibility pulled together an all-star team including Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, and director Ang Lee. As Lee has consistently done his whole career, he surprised everyone by sensitively and wonderfully adapting a 19th century period British novel and maximizing the comedy and emotion.

Here we get the Jane Austen story of three sisters who have to navigate the strange and arcane "rules of society" that dictate who they should marry. But of course they have minds and hearts of their own. At the center is eldest daughter Elinor's (Emma Thompson) unrequited love for the handsome Edward (Hugh Grant). With all the forces of society and their own awkwardness working against them, it seems impossible they will ever get together.

We follow this up with one of the smartest and most fun "Jane Austen" updates BRIDGET JONES DIARY. Here Renee Zellewegger plays the eponymous journal keeping single Bridget who, despite her clumsiness and self-doubt, suddenly finds herself torn between two men, the dashing if buttoned up Darcy (Colin Firth) and the caddish yet enjoyable Daniel (Hugh Grant). Tough spot to be in huh?

Here Hugh Grant embraces the "bad boy" persona that had begun to dog his personal life to turn in a performance of narcissistic and hedonistic comedy.

Zellweger and Firth have incredible chemistry and the whole movie is a clear ode to Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.

So bring your date and join us for a double dose of romantic comedy and intrigue done right. Your in the best possible hands when you have Jane Austen as your source material.

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:

You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.