SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Two SCI-FI GENRE MASH UP CULT CLASSICS! Saturday, June 5, 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.

730pm DARK CITY (1998, dir by Alex Proyas, Warner Brothers, 111mns, 35MM)

1015pm MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985, dir by George Miller, Warner Brothers, 107mns, 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 screen two sci-fi genre mash up cult classics.

First up is the late 90's Dark City which somehow manages to be incredibly noir, incredibly 90's, and incredibly stylishly sci-fi all at the same time.

Using the tropes of the 1940's noir movie, John Murdoch wakes up in a hotel room and is wanted for murder but he can't remember committing the murders and suspects he may be innocent. At the same time he falls in love with mysterious Emma (always wonderful Jennifer Connelly), he begins to dig down into why the city he roams in never seems to see daytime or why strange bald men in overcoats and bowlers seem to follow and monitor everything he does.

As we become aware of what's really going on, we land directly in Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick territory. A wonderfully strange and gorgeous mash up of sci-fi, noir, and the head trip movie.

Next we take a leap back to the last Mad Max movie for 30 years (!!) before Fury Road burned into our minds in 2015. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome which co-stars a wonderful Tina Turner as Auntie Entity, the evil sheriff if you will, of an apocalyptic wasteland city known as Bartertown.

But here, strangers and townsfolk alike are often forced to fight in an arena known as Thunderdome where two enter but only one can come out.

Enter Mad Max who, as usual, just wants to be left alone but realizes he may need to help a group of children get to a better place lest they fall victim to the evils of Bartertown.

Genius director George Miller cleverly uses the trope of the western in this sci-fi post-apocalyptic riff on Shane . In many ways, this is the most gloriously Dickensian of all the Mad Maxes with tons of action, car chases, fights but also with a more intricate and denser then usual story of apocalyptic characters who don't easily fit into the tropes of Cowboys, bad guys, the innocent, the guilty. Because after the apocalypse, everybody is a little stained.

So join us for two great sci-fi movies that found very clever ways to mash up sci fi with a an older genre.

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?

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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:

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