SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our TRIBUTES series! Friday, April 29, 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 TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983, adap/dir by James L. Brooks, Paramount, 132mns, 35mm presentation)
10pm BROADCAST NEWS (1987, wri/dir by James L. Brooks, Fox, 133mns, DCP)
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 show two great movies by James L. Brooks who somehow mastered the complex 80's comedy-drama better than anyone else.
First up is 1983's Best Picture winner Terms of Endearment. Brooks was already 20 years into an incredibly successful television producing and writing career (which continues to this day with probably his greatest international success The Simpsons) when he made Terms of Endearment.
Adapted from The Last Picture Show's and Lonesome Dove's Larry McMurty's novel of the same name, Terms of Endearment tells the story of spirited widow Aurora (an always amazing Shirley MacClaine) and her struggles with his equally spirited daughter Emma (the luminous Debra Winger). When Emma marries a selfish College Professor (played amazingly by Jeff Daniels) and Aurora embarks on an affair with her neighbor, astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson who won a best supporting Academy Award for his turn here), the mother and daughter fight, bond, and face the hardest struggles anyone can face.
A beautiful, nuanced, hilarious, joyful and heartbreaking movie, Terms of Endearment would seem to be a hard act to follow.
But Brooks did just that with his incredible follow up, 1987's Broadcast News.
Starring the incredible William Hurt, whom we just lost and want to pay tribute to, Broadcast News drops us into the high pressure, high reward world of nightly network broadcasts.
This movie is a three hander about professional, hard nosed producer Jane (always wonderful Holly Hunter) who finds herself at a professional and personal crossroads when she has to consider two romances/working relationships with either talented if prosaic reporter Aaron (Albert Brooks, always real and funny) or prime time ready gorgeous TV anchor Tom (William Hurt, perfectly nailing the ambition, narcissism, and charm) who lacks the journalistic ethics of a great reporter but is dynamite for the ratings.
Broadcast News adroitly captures the struggles and conflicts of Boomers in their 30's in Regan's America and plays as a kind of humanist version of Network with a focus more on the individual's struggle to balance work and personal ambitions with ethics and integrity. With a surprise (and wonderful) cameo from Jack Nicholson as an added cherry on top and incredible cinematography by Fassbinder and Scorsese DP, Michael Balhaus, Broadcast News is one of the more undersung gems of the 1980's.
Join us for both tonight!
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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