SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our MOVIE HOLIDAY PARTY series 35mm & 16mm! Friday, December 3, 2021

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 TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003, dir by Satoshi Kon, Sony, 35mm, 92mns)

10pm BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974, dir by Bob Clark, AGFA, 16mm, 98mns)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***Starting November 4th, 2021 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 a religious exemption, please have proof of a negative 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!

We kick off our Movie Holiday Party series with two totally singular, unique holiday classics. . .in very different genres.

First up is Satoshi Kon's TOKYO GODFATHERS. On a Sony 35mm print! Japanese anime master filmmaker Kon (whose PAPRIKA, MILLENIUM ACTRESS, and PERFECT BLUE rocked our worlds in 2019) switches gears to tell the heart-warming, humanist story of three Homeless people who discover an abandoned baby during the holidays and struggle to figure out how to handle the situation.

TOKYO GODFATHERS is a clever re-working of the John Ford movie THREE GODFATHERS (which Ford himself re-made from an earlier version that he also directed!) that transplants the story from the Western to modern day Tokyo. But the spiritual themes are all there in the unique, ultra creative, unexpected style of Satoshi Kon.

We programmed TOKYO GODFATHERS first because next we dive into the darkness with the hilarious, wild, classic horror movie from the 1970's Black Christmas.

Directed by Bob Clark (who would go on to direct another holiday classic A Christmas Story a decade later), Black Christmas follows a sorority during holiday break. There's a killer on the loose who kills the girlsone by one who didn't go home for the holidays.

At first no one knows what's going on but slowly, the final girls begin to realize that the killer might be. . .

Ah c'mon! You didn't think we were going to give it away. Still a revolutionary movie for how it basically takes an oft-told campfire story and translates it into a gripping, wildly entertaining unpredictable horror movie, Black Christmas may not fill you with holiday cheer. But it will fill you with holiday fear! And we're showing it on 16mm.

Come have a blast with two very quirky idiosynchratic holiday classics.

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.