SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our POLITICS & THE PERSONAL series! Thursday, May 12, 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 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS(1966, co-wri/dir by Gillo Pontecorvo, Janus/Rialto, 121mns, 35mm presentation)
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!
All May 2022, we're running a "POLITICS & THE PERSONAL" series. We're screening some of the most fascinating movies about politics, political movements, and political figures of the last 60 years.
We've worked to curate a selection of movies that personalize and humanize some of the most history affecting figures and moments of the 20th century. At the same time, we salute these movies because they often show the complexities on all sides of an issue and avoid the understandable trap of favoring a side or ideology based on a filmmaker's own personal beliefs or politics.
Rather all these movies are great cinema, great examinations, and great watches.
We kick off with one of the MUST SEE political movies of all time. Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 The Battle of Algiers.
The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the Algerian-French war (1954-1962) from the point of view of BOTH the Algerians and their guerilla rebel movements AND the French Counter-terrorism Special Forces brought in to deal with the escalating acts of city terrorism.
60 years later, The Battle of Algiers is still possibly the greatest movie ever made about how occupied peoples rebel against occupiers WHILE still showing the humanity, objectives, and complexities of both sides.
Pontecorvo chose to make the movie in a kind of neo-realist reportage style reminiscent of Rossellini. He co-wrote the music with Ennio Morricone and opted for a more propulsive ensemble approach while surprising us with shockingly empathetic portraits of the French Special Ops Forces and the tactics they used.
While ultimately the movie makes the inescapable point that occupations are rarely successful (or even wise), it also shows the pros and cons of everyone involved in escalating conflict.
This movie is so respected it actually is watched by BOTH insurrectionists and governments around the world as near documentary of what everyone can expect if diplomacy fails.
A stunning, challenging, thought provoking work. And we're doing it on 35mm!
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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