SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our LOVE! EMOTION! ROMANCE! Friday, February 25, 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.
730pm TRUST (1990, wri/dir by Hal Hartley, Possible Films,107mns)
945pm SIMPLE MEN (1992, wri/dir by Hal Hartley, Fine Line Features, 105mns)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***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 an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level 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 WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING 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!
One of the greatest poets of misfit romance of the last 30 years is writer/director Hal Hartley. Tonight we show two of his greatest.
Hartley, like French filmmakers Jean Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, always marched to his own drummer. His movies are idiosynchratically their own, with their own rhythms, style, feel.
And it's a gloriously deadpan, droll, yet deeply romantic humanistic feel. Hartley's cinema needs to be shouted out from the rooftops more as he is every inch one of the key 1990's filmmakers.
First up is the movie that really put him on the map, 1990's Trust starring Adrienne Shelley and Martin Donovan. Shelley drops out of high school and announces she's pregnant much to the shock of her parents. As she tries to figure out what to do she meets deeply ethical (if a bit angry at the world) Matthew.
Both misfits in their own way, Maria and Matthew find themselves developing a romantic relationship based on the two most important if illusive traits: mutual admiration and trust.
A very very funny movie delivered in a kind of deadpan that somehow elevates the emotion. A MUST SEE.
We follow it up with Hartley's own ambitious follow-up Simple Men. Here brothers Bill (a frustrated criminal) and Dennis (his younger college grad brother) meet up after their anarchist father escapes from the hospital.
Bill, double crossed by his girlfriend, vows to break the heart of the next woman he meets, Dennis gets to know the Long Island locals of the town they stop in including intense Elina and fiery Martin, and local sincere, hard working waitress Kate tests Bill's resolve to break hearts.
Hartley always seemed resolve to push himself into new territory (a pattern he followed with possibly his masterwork 1997's Henry Fool) and here he expands his palette to a more ensemble approach with familial and crime issues as well.
The movie wears its Godard love on its sleeve (including an homage to the Band A Part dance) yet hurtles towards an incredibly emotional and moving climax.
These are two of Hartley's absolute best. Inspiring to both the romantic and the filmmaker.
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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