SPECIAL NOTE, PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING TICKET: Your eyeballs may burst bloody out of your head when you see our $190 per ticket price point for EACH of these events. Please know this, you’re paying $175 for a limited edition poster by one of the top marquee poster designers in the field of limited edition movie posters (think Mondo level and you’re right) and an after party with food and drink. Then $15 to watch the movie of the poster you’ve just bought on 35mm.
We’ve been told by the organizers that once you find out who the designer is (we can’t announce the designer until much closer to the event when we also reveal the poster design) this event will sell out quick. The designer has actually done the poster design for all three posters. So you may want to purchase your ticket now before it sells out.
Finally, we have to limit purchase of one person per poster to discourage poster assassins from scooping up too many of the limited editions. So if you want to attend with a companion, they need to purchase their ticket on their own as every ticket comes with a limited edition poster. Okay. Whew!
SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our MOVIE POSTER PARTY WEEKEND Series, Saturday, November 12, 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.
7pm EYES WIDE SHUT (1999, dir. Stanley Kubrick, WB, USA, 159mns, 35mm)
Today we hand you your limited edition Eyes Wide Shut movie poster designed by (NAME SECRET UNTIL REVEAL BUT PLEASE KNOW THIS DESIGNER IS MONDO LEVEL) and screen Stanley Kubrick’s final film on 35mm!
At this point, we’ve screened Eyes Wide Shut almost every holiday season since we started at the Vista. And that’s not laziness. That’s because, in this programmer’s opinion, Eyes Wide Shut is one of Kubrick’s absolute best movies. Kubrick himself thought so and told Warner Brothers’ studio head John Calley the same just before Kubrick died several months before the opening of the picture.
Eyes Wide Shut -- based on the novella Traumnovelle (“Dream Novel”) by Arthur Schnitzler -- tells the story of upper middle class (maybe even upper class) New York couple Dr. Bill and Alice Hartford and the traumatic reckoning they have with their marriage and sexual life across several days before Christmas.
The day after attending a holiday party hosted by one of Bill’s super-rich clients (played wonderfully by Sydney Pollack), in which both Bill and Alice flirt with other guests, the husband and wife open a can of worms when Alice, angry at Bill’s male confidence she would never cheat on him, reveals to Bill she almost once left him for a man she lusted after (but actually ultimately didn’t have an affair with). The news so shatters Bill’s sense of himself that he journeys out into a nocturnal world of sexual opportunity leading ultimately to a strange orgy hosted at a very rich mansion. . .
And despite this maybe even lurid description, Eyes Wide Shut, like 2001, is actually one of Kubrick’s most blindingly optimistic movies. But you’ll have to see it to decide for yourself. 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.