SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our MARCH MUSICAL MADNESS Series, Friday, March 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 ONCE (2007, dir. John Carney, Fox, Ireland, 85mns, Digital)
9:20pm THE COMMITMENTS (1991, dir. Alan Parker, Swank, Ireland, 120mns, Digital)
SPECIAL NOTE: Guinness beer, Irish food and drink will be available tonight to help us celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Before, during, and after the screenings. So come celebrate with us and get your Irish on.
This year, we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we two of the most fun Irish-Ireland themed musicals to come out in the past thirty years.
Once, the micro budget 2007 musical, tells the story of hard luck musicians Guy (Glen Hansard) and Girl (Marketa Irglova) who meet, fall in love, write music together.
The movie, shot on the streets of Dublin, with original songs by Hansard and Irglova (performing as The Swell Season) surprised the world with its mix of feel good storytelling and genuinely amazing music.
The very definition of a feel good movie that proved all the skeptics wrong, Once is pure joy.
We follow that up with Alan Parker’s The Commitments. Based on the Roddy Doyle novel of the same name (and which would become the first in a four movie series), The Commitments is about a group of American soul music loving Dubliners who get together to form the scrappiest cover band Ireland has ever seen. Parker, who had previously made the musicals Bugsy Malone and The Wall, has a blast here. And the actors, mostly Irish singers and musicians, have a rough edged sincerity to them that gives the whole movie tremendous charm.
So join us for a night of music, Irishness, beer, celebration. Because the United States claims 70 million people of Irish descent (from an island of 6 million). Which must mean we Irish procreate prodigiously.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
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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