SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our JOHN FORD FUNDAMENTALS series! Wednesday, February 2, 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 SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949, dir by John Ford, Warner Brothers, 35mm, 103mns)
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!
Tonight, we show the middle movie of John Ford's Cavalry trilogy She Wore a Yellow Ribbon in beautiful 35mm technicolor!
This was only Ford's 2nd color movie (after 1939's Drums Along the Mohawk) and already he was finding ways, with his cinematographer Winton Hoch (who won an Academy Award for his work here), to preserve the best of black and white (contrast, shadow, pattern, depth, light) and utilize the new aspects of color (saturation, emotion, powerful imagery).
The movie, a fascinating variation on Fort Apache, has John Wayne playing Captain Nathan Brittles, on the verge of retirement, who must lead his regiment to deliver a woman to a stagecoach while trying to make the peace with neighboring Native Americans.
There's so much to write about this movie but it's ultimately probably better experienced. But some quick notes if importance: this was one of the first roles where Ford totally trusted Wayne to deliver a "performance" rather than a "persona". When Ford saw Wayne play 20 years older than he was in Howard Hawks' RED RIVER, he decided Wayne could play the older, wiser Brittles. At the end of the picture supposedly Ford gave Wayne a cake that said "Now you're an actor". In many ways, it was this movie that cleared the way for THE QUIET MAN and THE SEARCHERS.
Also, this is one of the quintessential Ford movies in terms of the Ford Stock Company, his always used group of actors who appear again and again in his pictures. This includes Mexican superstar Pedro Armendariz who starred in numerous Ford pictures, Victor Maclaglen, Ward Bond, Walter Kibbe, etc.
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon is probably the most wistful of the trilogy, edged throughout with a melancholy and wisdom that Ford had developed with age.
The irony (or more likely genius) of Ford was that he never showed this side to the public offscreen. But he constantly showed it to the public onscreen where it counted and where it would endure.
Ford has always been the director's director because he was intelligent enough to act as if he wasn't making art just doing his job. And consequently, he was able to make humanist masterpiece after humanist masterpiece.
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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