SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN 2023 Series, Saturday, November 11, 2023

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 1917 Bay St building. Our entrance is NOT on Bay Street. You access our entrance from Wilson Street by turning into the street art alleyway/corridor in the back of the building. Look for our signs which are always posted on Wilson and in the corridor to guide the audience.

7:30pm A SERIOUS MAN (2009, wri & dir by Joel and Ethan Coen, Universal, USA, 105mns, 35mm)

The Coen Brothers have built a career on sly, imaginative genre left turns filled with cinematic and oratorical flourish. They are NOT known for being particularly autobiographical. In fact, they're known for an imp-like and mischievous tendency to refuse to answer ANY questions about the meaning or their own intent with any of their pictures.

So maybe it was just the ultimate punk rock Coen Brothers move to suddenly surprise the world with a very autobiographical picture about growing up Jewish in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in the 1960's.

A SERIOUS MAN is somehow both one of the Coens' funniest and one of the Coens' most inscrutably philosophical movies. It follows Gopnik family father, Larry, a local college professor, across several very trying weeks in his family and professional life. His story is doubled by the story of his son Danny (Joel and Ethan smushed together into one) who is preparing for his bar mitzvah while at the same time smoking pot and listening to late 1960's Jefferson Airplane.

Structured partly as a typical Jewish joke, "A man goes to see three rabbis. . .", A SERIOUS MAN manages to touch on all sorts of themes including spiritual vs secular understandings of the world, what it means to do the right thing, parent and children connection, and finally whether there is any kind of causal/karmic connection between moral/ethical transgression and spiritual punishment.

Oh yeah. . .did we also say it's really really funny. Come join us for one of the Coens very best. On 35mm!

Best always,

Craig Hammill

Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

*Please note that though we strive to always show titles on 35mm film if advertised, we may have to screen digitally if the print we receive is in such bad shape or if we don't receive the print in time because of a shipping delay. We will do our best to alert the audience. When this does occur, we will offer each ticket holder who chooses not to attend a complimentary ticket to a future event in exchange. (Disclaimer: Good for 90 days – Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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 to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening, good for 90 days. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)

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.

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.

HOW CAN WE STAY ON TOP OF NEWLY ANNOUNCED 35MM SCREENINGS, EVENTS, ETC?

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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.