SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our SMC BIRTHDAYS Series, Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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.
7:30pm GHOST WORLD (2001, dir. Terry Zwigoff, Park Circus, USA, 112mns, 35mm)
9:45pm MYSTERY TRAIN (1989, dir. Jim Jarmusch, Janus, USA, 113mns, 35mm)
Hey we didn’t necessarily intend to do a Steve Buscemi double but sometimes the stars align!
Tonight, we screen two great indie cinema gems, guest programmed by the birthday girl herself, Secret Movie Club Team Member, Marina Sakimoto.
Interestingly, both movies deal with creative sub-cultures.
First up is the adaptation of Daniel Cloves’ famous cult graphic novel Ghost World. Director Zwigoff, hot off his amazing documentary on underground graphic novelist and counterculture comic book artist Robert Crumb, was the perfect fit for this story of Enid and Rebecca, two just high school graduated outsiders trying to make it in a mediocre world they both suspect of its mediocrity. When Enid meets sad sack Seymour (Buscemi) she decides to help him with his romantic life.
A fascinating snapshot of too smart for their own good jaded teenagers at the end of the endlessly innocent 1990’s, Ghost World also captures the loneliness and isolation that comes from folks who just can’t force themselves to play the game.
We follow this up with Jim Jarmusch’s third movie, a wonderful one night journey into the rock and roll and blues nocturnal landscape of Memphis, Tennessee.
Mystery Train plays as part Down By Law and part Night on Earth while settling into wonderful rhythms all its own. Mystery Train tells three stories of outsiders and misfits wandering around nighttime Memphis in search of Elvis, love, music, a place to sleep. Jarmusch interweaves the three stories in clever ways while staying true to his deadpan comic sensibilities of his first period.
Come join us for two great movies of too cool for school hip outcasts just trying to find their version of the American dream. Both 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.
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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
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