SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

FASSBINDER BIERGARTEN WEDNESDAYS! Wednesday, December 1, 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 KATZELMACHER (1969, wri/dir by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Janus, Germany, 89mns)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***Starting November 4th, 2021 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 a religious exemption, please have proof of a negative 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 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 close out our Fassbinder 2021 series with three very different yet fascinating works.

First up is Fassbinder's 2nd ever feature made in 1969, Katzelmacher (a Bavarian slang term derogatory for a foreigner and translated as either "trouble maker" or more literally "cat-screwer").

Katzelmacher is a fascinating movie because it's clearly still fascinated with the Godardian, Brechtian devices of Fassbinder's anti-theater and early work (repeated shot movements, variations on scenes, etc.) but it pulsates with the stinging "shoot in all directions" humanist observation of his very best work.

The movie centers around a group of aimless friends who get agitated when a Greek foreign worker, Jorgos (played by Fassbinder himself), suddenly tries to befriend them and be part of their group.

If anyone thought Fassbinder was going to cut his generation a break all they have to do is watch Katzelmacher to know that Fassbinder, even this early in his career, was going to go after everyone and everything with the razor.

We see how young people who pride themselves on not being like their parents or the older generation, who define themselves as "open minded and accepting", can become just as reactionary, closed off, and xenophobic as the stuffy adults they supposedly are rebelling against.

A tremendous vital exciting work, Katzelmacher much more than Fassbinder's first movie Love is Colder Than Death (still a dynamite movie) offers us the blueprint for the rest of Fassbinder's career.

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.

There is, however, free parking all around the theater on Wilson and Bay Streets.

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