SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our APRIL ANIME series! Saturday, April 23, 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.
700pm EVANGELION 3.33 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (2012, dir by Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Crunchy Roll/Funimation, 96mns, Japanese w/ English subtitles, digital presentation)
915pm Secret Screening Finale Party. Please note ONLY audience members who have purchased the EVANGELION ALL-ACCESS PASS ticket can attend this special private party.
SPECIAL NOTE: We are celebrating the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series & feature films for our April Anime spotlight. We do HIGHLY recommend that all audience members stream/watch (Netflix & Amazon prime) the television series (13 hours total) & END OF EVANGELION (the 1997 re-cap movie, 90 minutes) ahead of our feature film celebration since the movies re-tell and in many ways re-vise what happened in the landmark anime television series.
This is a celebration of anime through the prism of one of the key hallmark anime masterpieces of all time. We highly recommend folks buy the EVANGELION ALL-ACCESS PASS for all 3 features & a special "Secret" party that will follow Evangelion 3.33 Saturday night. The Secret party will include a very important secret screening that should serve as a fitting how shall we say, finale! But only AUDIENCE with the PASS will be able to attend.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***ALL AUDIENCE are still 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.
***As of April 1, 2022, masks are now optional for indoor theater events if you're fully vaccinated. Anyone with a vaccination exemption can still attend as long as they have proof of a RT-PCR level negative Covid test ( within 72 hours of the event) but will be required to wear a mask. We will continue to update our protocols with the dynamic situation.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE BRING YOUR VACCINATION CARD (digital cards accepted).
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!
Tonight, we wrap up our Anime April through the prism of exhaustively looking at one hallmark classic: the Evangelion 1.11, 2.22, 3.33, (and a secret screening at the party Saturday night) series of features made after the celebrated and controversial TV show.
Tonight, we show Evangelion 3.33 YOU CAN(NOT) ADVANCE and then throw a Secret Screening Finale party that we hope will provide. . .closure to our celebration of the Evangelion series. PLEASE NOTE THOUGH, ONLY AUDIENCE WITH AN EVANGELION ALL-ACCESS PASS can attend the party which starts at 915p.
Written and co-directed by Japanese master filmmaker and anime maestro Hideaki Anno (who would also do the mind blowing Godzilla re-boot Shin Godzilla), the Evangelion cycle of 4 movies (which just culminated with the fourth and final feature released in 2021, but more on that later) is not so much a continuation of the NEG TV series as a sometimes subtle, sometimes stunning and bold re-imagining, re-telling, and re-envisioning.
If you've seen what David Lynch did with Twin Peaks in Twin Peaks Season 3, you will have some sense of the risks, re-examination, experimentation you're in for.
The Evangelion movies like the TV series tell the story of a battle between a mysterious being called Angel and a para military organization that uses giant humanoid bio-machines known as Evangelions.
In the feature 3.33, Ano and his team again throw the audience for a loop by choosing fascinating, unexpected, and wild approaches to the Evangelion narrative in what clearly becomes obvious is a set up for a huge finale (which was finally delivered with the biggest anime hit of all time, 2021's Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon A Time which finally put the declarative exclamation mark to close out the three decade series.
Evangelion 3.33 wisely keeps its running time short so the experimentation and deepening of the narrative act more as a primer for what will be a clear EPIC finale.
Following 3.33, we'll be throwing a secret special party to wrap up our Evangelion weekend with a secret screening that we hope will bring closure to everyone. Please remember only folks with the ALL ACCESS PASS can attend.
Come join us, be inspired, get riled out, go on the journey. It ends tonight.
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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