SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our THE LITTLE MOVIE THAT COULD series! Thursday, January 13, 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 BELLFLOWER (2011, wri/dir by Evan Glodell, Oscilloscope, 106mns)
930pm PRIMER (2004, wri/dir by Shane Carruth, Visit Films, 77mns)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***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 an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level 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!
Our Little Movie that Could series continues with two 21st century examples of how ingenuity, creative problem solving, and maybe even a little craziness can get high concept movies made on a micro-budget.
Bellflower is one of those little cinematic miracles that drops your jaw in the first ten minutes and keeps it there until the explosive final credits. It's got everything: tricked out cars with flame throwers and whiskey dispensers, crazy bloody special effects, stunning and disturbing and surprising sequences.
Yet at heart, it's actually a beautiful metaphor about the intensity with which we experience our first love, relationship, breakup, and aftermath.
Amateur inventor and misfit Woodrow meets kindred spirit Milly and they decide, on the spot, to drive to Texas from California to check out a bar. This kicks off their relationship which then goes through the archetypical ups and downs.
This movie always threatens to topple over or overheat with its near grand guignol and high opera take on relationships yet it never does. It somehow perfectly captures the feeling.
Next is Shane Carruth's mind-blowing time travel sci-fi movie Primer which won at Sundance because it is one of the best time travel movies you will ever see MADE for almost no money (the budget was reportedly $15,000.00).
It niftily takes the premise of two people inventing something in their garage, almost a riff on how Microsoft and Apple and Amazon etc all came about, but here we get two friends inventing a time machine.
However, the movie is also constructed as a kind of Borges-like puzzle where we have to figure out how the rules work, what iteration of timeline we're in, and who exactly is betraying who.
If you need inspiration immediately to get you to make your first feature, you gotta come see these two amazing movies.
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.
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.