SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
FASSBINDER 35MM BIERGARTEN WEDNESDAYS! Wednesday, July 28, 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 FOX AND HIS FREINDS (1975, wri/dir by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Janus, Germany, 124mns, 35MM)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
**WE NOW FOLLOW THE NEW PROTOCOLS AS OF 6/15/21 WHICH ALLOW FOR GREATER OCCUPANCY AND EASING OF RESTRICTIONS REGARDING MASK WEARING.
***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.
***WE STILL RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE BRING PROOF OF VACCINATION AND MASKS. FOLKS WHO HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE VACCINATION (OR DON'T HAVE PROOF OF VACCINATION) WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.
***PLEASE HAVE A PHOTO OF YOUR VACCINATION CARD READY ON YOUR PHONE AND/OR HAVE IT ON YOUR PERSON FOR EASE OF CHECK IN.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE BRING AND BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES 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!
We continue our Fassbinder 35mm Biergarten Wednesdays! series with Fassbinger's controversial stunningly brilliant and devastating Fox and His Friends.
Each of these Wednesdays, we turn the Secret Movie Club into a free-wheeling German 1970's Biergarten so we can watch, debate, rage at some of master filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's greatest movies.
Fox and his Friends tells the heartbreaking story of a good hearted working class Fox who wins the lottery and is soon exploited by his new lover, the son of a wealthy Industrialist, who simultaneously tries to convert Fox into the kind of urbane "sophisticate" acceptable to his circle of friends while simultaneously exploiting Fox to get at his money.
But Fassbinder (who always plays Fox here brilliantly well) surprises by criticizing Fox as well for ALLOWING HIMSELF to be exploited.
Not an easy to movie take, Fox and his Friends famously enraged many of Fassbinder's LGBTQ friends (Fassbinder himself was publically and commitedly bi-sexual) who felt Fassbinder was airing his tribe's "dirty laundry".
But again, Fassbinder refused to "airbrush" the hypocrisy we all suffer from, even those in his own tight-knit community.
Shot again by master cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, Fox and his Friends is one of Fassbinder's greatest all time movies.
If you don't know about Rainer Werner Fassbinder, he was a blisteringly angry, politically committed, mischievously insightful prolific German moviemaker who wrote & directed over 40 feature films, numerous tv series, 20 plays of wild creativity before od'ing on cocaine and barbituates at 37 years old.
Fassbinder never expected to see old age and he made movies (often 4+ a year) at an unimaginable pace of high quality as if he knew he only had a decade or so to get it all out there.
He also refused to bulls@#t anyone, including himself. Some of the bravest, most confrontational challenging cinema you'll ever see.
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 , 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.
We should be able to lower our ticket prices soon as we are able to increase capacity and lower restrictions.
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:
You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.