SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our INDIE SPOTLIGHT Series, Friday, December 1, 2023

PLEASE READ, LOCATION CHANGE: Due to our SMC Theater being shut down for weekend due to building issues, we are screening this movie on the University of Southern California Campus through the kindess of Alex Ago, USC Programmer, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

We have included a USC Campus Map to help get to theater.

ADDRESS: 3470 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 BUILDING: SCI 106 (C3 on attached USC campus map)

DIRECTIONS: You can access this theater (160 seats) via the gate/entrance at McClintock Avenue and Jefferson Blvd. The SCI building is visible just after passing the gate at the corner of McClintock Avenue and West 34th Street. We’ll have WARM BLOOD posters and signage up to guide folks.

PARKING INSTRUCTIONS: There are multiple parking options. Free parking is available off campus to folks willing to walk a few blocks from 28th Street, 30th Street, 32nd Street, etc. There is also $12 parking at the Shrine Auditorium about 3-4 blocks from the theater. Finally there IS on campus parking on West 34th Street for $20. Folks would enter at the McClintock gate, make a left onto West 34th Street, then drive ALL the way down to the Royal Street Parking Lot (at G4 on Campus Map).

7:30pm WARM BLOOD (2022, wri & dir by Rick Chamoski, shot on 16mm/presented on DCP, 86mns)

FILMMAKER Q&A with director Rick Chamoski & other WARM BLOOD cast/crew TO FOLLOW.

Cinema at its best has often had an element of punk rock. A bit of pirate's blood. Skater ethos and daring. There's so many voices telling a filmmaker no or it has to be done this way or that way that only those able to lock in and trust a vision and drown out the noise get anywhere.

Today we're proud to welcome filmmaker/skater Rick Chamoski and his movie Warm Blood which took 9 years to shoot and is lensed by noted cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt (First Cow, Emma, Night Moves). We're honored to shine the indie spotlight on this singular movie and talk with Rick about his journey to getting it done.

Warm Blood is going to be unlike anything you've ever seen. Shot on 16mm, Warm Blood tells the story of Red, a driven young runaway who returns to her hometown to track down her wayward father. Inhabiting the fringes of Modesto, California in the toxic haze of the 1980’s, WARM BLOOD is a politically subversive, searing collage of sound, narrative, documentary and trash B movie meta narratives, hand stitched by filmmaker Rick Charnoski.

Sometimes cinema is best jagged, raw, poetic, and brutal. If you're a moviemaker (or even just a movielover) who wants to see something new and talk with someone who got it done in this very weird cinematic climate, join us tonight as we screen, talk, hash out how cinema gets made these days. We're honored to welcome Rick, the Warm Blood team to the Secret Movie Club Theater and talk this out.

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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