SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
RE-OPENING RE-DISCOVERING FILM SERIES! Friday, May 14, 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 AFTER HOURS (1985, dir by Martin Scorsese, Warner Brothers, 97mns, 35MM)
1020PM GOODFELLAS (1990, dir by Martin Scorsese, Warner Brothers, 148mns, 35MM)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
**WE ARE OBSERVING ALL COVID HEALTH PROTOCOLS ACCORDING TO THE COUNTY OF LA DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH (AS DIRECTED 4/17/21).
THIS INCLUDES KEEPING OUR CAPACITY TO A TOTAL OF 40 GUESTS PER SCREENING (26% MAX CAPACITY), 6FT DISTANCING, ENFORCED MASK WEARING, ETC.
***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE PURCHASE ALL TICKETS FOR FOLKS IN YOUR “HOUSEHOLD” AT THE SAME TIME. THIS WILL HELP US KNOW HOW TO LAY OUT THAT NIGHT’S SEATING PLAN. So for example, if you are attending in a group of 3 people all of whom will be sitting together, please purchase ALL 3 TICKETS at the same time.
For the time being, we are capping the maximum “household” number to 4 tickets/4 people who can sit next to each other.
2)PLEASE BRING AND BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE THEATER. While you will be able to order, eat, and drink pre-packaged drinks and concessions in your reserved seating area (always 6 ft apart from other households), you will be required to wear your mask at all other times.
3)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!
4)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 continue our re-opening week at the Secret Movie Club Theater in DTLA’s Arts District with a two-fer of Martin Scorsese’s greatest.
When Martin Scorsese began working with famed German cinematographer Michael Balhaus, Scorsese was at a low point in his career. The two were supposed to collaborate on The Last Temptation of Christ (which they eventually did 6 years later) when production fell through 1983.
Scorsese was so depressed, he thought he might give up on filmmaking entirely, move to Italy, and make documentaries on the Saints.
Enter Michael Balhaus who had shot many of German auteur (yet Enfant terrible) Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s greatest 70’s movies. Balhaus knew how to shoot quick, get great expressive inventive shots, yet make everything look incredible.
The two decided to get down and dirty and return to Scorsese’s indie roots with After Hours, a hilarious comedy about computer programmer Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) who heads down to Manhattan’s Soho district for a midnight rendezvous with newly met crush Marcy Franklin (a wonderfully neurotic Rosanna Arquette).
But from the very moment he embarks on this midnight odyssey, things go very very wrong and very very surreal. Until Paul begins to suspect he may be in some kind of nocturnal Purgatory keeping him from ever returning uptown.
Scorsese has said that After Hours and his new collaboration with Michael Balhaus, re-awoke Scorsese to how fun it can be to make movies. And this movie shows it. Every shot, every sequence is intoxicated with possibility and the love of cinema.
We follow After Hours with what many (including this programmer) consider the pinnacle of the Scorsese/Balhaus collaborations Goodfellas.
Scorsese decided to direct Goodfellas like a 2.5 hour coming attractions trailer. And boy did that creative decision pay off in cinematic fireworks of all kinds.
Often cited as THE greatest gangster movie ever made and possibly Scorsese’s personal greatest movie, Goodfellas tells the life story of real-life mid-level foot soldier gangster Henry Hill (played with a kind of predatory exuberance by Ray Liotta) from his start to the very end of his career as a gangster.
Hill comes up in the mafia with fellow gangsters and friends shark-like Jimmy “the Gent” Conway (Robert De Niro) and out of control near psychotic Tommy Devito (Joe Pesci).
Scorsese sets a template here that dozens of filmmakers have tried but never managed to equal. Wild, almost off the rails energy, married to an incisive understanding of what tempts and ultimately destroys the people who make a bargain with the devil to be part of the mafia.
So come watch this double feature of two of Scorsese & Balhaus’s greatest collaborations.
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.
WHY ARE THE TICKET PRICES HIGHER THAN NORMAL?
In order for us to re-open, maintain health protocols (which includes operating at only 50% capacity), and screen movies on 35MM, we need to temporarily raise our ticket prices. We apologize.
However, if you could look at this as partially helping the Secret Movie Club Theater re-open, make the improvements as we go to turn this into the amazing movie watching, movie making center we know it can be, we would be eternally grateful.
As we can increase capacity, we will IMMEDIATELY LOWER ticket prices.
If you could look at this as all of us being in this together, we WILL remember your kindness.
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.
HOW WILL OUR STAFF MAKE SURE THE THEATER IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE:
We will have staff in the theater at all times who make sure everyone is wearing masks and obeying protocols. We will have signage at entrance, markings at concessions, restrooms, etc so folks keep 6 ft distance at all times.
Anyone not observing safe protocols will kindly be asked to leave. On top of this, we’ll be making announcements at the head of each screening to make sure everyone understands the rules & regs!
HOW CAN WE STAY ON TOP OF NEWLY ANNOUNCED 35MM SCREENINGS, EVENTS, ETC?
You can follow us on Facebook: @secretmovieclub35mm or Instagram/Twitter: @secretmovieclub
You can also subscribe to our weekly email newsletter by writing us at community@secretmovieclub.com and using the header “SUBSCRIBE ME TO NEWSLETTER”.
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.