SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our ATTENTION ANIME! series! Saturday, July 2, 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.

5pm PARANOIA AGENT Episodes #1-7 (2004, created by Satoshi Kon, Madhouse/Toho Kushinsha Film Corporation, approx 175mns, Subbed)

*Please note there will be a roughly 1 hour intermission at 8pm for folks to go grab dinner at a number of our local DTLA Arts District restaurants. Audience can bring food back to the theater as well!

9pm PARANOIA AGENT Episodes #8-13 (2004, created by Satoshi Kon, Madhouse/Toho Kushinsha Film Corporation, 150mns, Subbed)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***As of April 1, 2022, masks are now optional for indoor theater events if you're fully vaccinated. Anyone without proof of vaccination will be required to wear a mask for their own safety. We will continue to update our protocols with the dynamic situation. We are working to make sure we make the theater going experience the most enjoyable and safest possible.

HOW TO:

1)PLEASE BRING YOUR VACCINATION CARD (digital cards accepted).

2)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 you complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. (Disclaimer under “REFUNDS” applies)

Master anime filmmaker Satoshi Kon had so many unused unique ideas from his features Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers that he put them all in his brilliant, eclectic, unsettling, visionary, wildly creative 2004 TV series Paranoia Agent.

Running 13 episodes (each episode 25 minutes), Paranoia Agent, much like Twin Peaks, focuses on an unsettling central act of violence that blossoms out to be a kaleidoscopic look at an ensemble of fascinating characters where our initial understanding of the violent acts changes, deepens & becomes more and more mysterious.

A city is terrorized by Lil Slugger (Bat Boy in the literal Japanese translation), a mysterious assailant who victims can only remember wields a gold baseball bat.

In episodes #1-7, we are introduced to various characters including the police detectives assigned to the case. Each episode ends with a Lil Slugger attack as we come to understand how bullying, insecurity and personal conflict affect each of L’il Sluggers victims (and some admirers).

Then, we get an explanation for the attacks but the explanation is more mysterious then what we thought it would be. New details come to light revealing that some of the victims may have only imagined the attacks and new characters appear who inject even more dread and uncertainty into everyone’s lives than L’il Slugger (who keeps attacking).

Episodes #8-13 hurtle towards an almost apocalyptic conclusion as Satoshi Kon fully digs into examining his ongoing themes of the blurred line between reality and fantasy, waking life and dream, interior and external realities. It would be impossible to give a synopsis here without ruining the jaw-dropping mind melting twists and turns the series takes.

What we can tell you is that we’re wildly excited to be able to present one of Satoshi Kon’s masterworks, little seen as a cinematic event, all on one day.

Kon is one of the those rare cinematic voices who is able to make works that are simultaneously humane, psychologically complex, and mysterious, cinematically arresting & totally unique.

Join us for one of the greatest anime series ever made.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

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 to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening. (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:

You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.