ELECTRIC DUSK DRIVE IN & SECRET MOVIE CLUB present CULT CLASSICS NIGHT!
DOUBLE FEATURE NIGHT! Part of our April 2021 Series. Thursday, April 1, 2021
745pm RUSHMORE (1998, directed by Wes Anderson, Disney, 93 mns, Digital)
945p THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001, directed by Wes Anderson, Disney, 110mns, Digital)
IMPORTANT NOTES: Gates will open for the first feature at 615pm. If you are just attending the second movie, please arrive no earlier than 9pm so we can allow all FIRST FEATURE only attendees to leave and get you in quickly.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE PURCHASING TICKETS TO THE CORRECT MOVIE IF YOU ARE JUST SEEING ONE FEATURE INSTEAD OF BOTH.
Also, our January-June 2021 drive-in screenings are subject to more potential weather postponements (mostly RAIN and WIND). Please check your email and our social media (@secretmovieclub) before heading to the event just to make sure we haven’t postponed due to weather.
We will re-schedule any postponed event to the nearest possible date. Anyone unable to attend the new date can request a refund up to 24 hours before the rescheduled event.
FINALLY, WE WILL OCCASIONALLY BE SELLING ALTERNATE DESIGN MOVIE POSTERS DONE BY INCREDIBLE CURRENT GRAPHIC DESIGNERS.
CHECK THE ADD-ONS. IF WE ARE SELLING A POSTER, YOU CAN VIEW, PRE-ORDER, AND PICK UP POSTER AT OUR CONCESSION TABLE AT EVENT UNDER YOUR NAME!
PARKING LOT: Glendale Sears Parking Lot, 211 W. California Avenue Street, Glendale, CA 91203
HOW TO:
Make sure when you purchase your ticket(s), you do the following:
1)PURCHASE A TWO FEATURE MAIN TICKET ($37) which includes a $25 car fee and the driver’s ticket. This gets you into BOTH features.
OR PURCHASE A SINGLE EARLY BIRD ($23) or DAY OF TICKET ($28) which includes the car fee and the first ticket for the driver. This gets you into the single FEATURE you select by title.
2) GO TO ADD ONS: Purchase either an additional $12 per person ticket (for BOTH Features) or an additional $8 per person ticket (for a SINGLE FEATURE) for however many other people after the first person will be in the car. You can always bring more people and pay at the gate as long as you have purchased the TWO FEATURE, EARLY BIRD, or DAY OF TICKET.
3)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our table in the middle of the Parking Lot.
To attend, you need a car with an FM radio or a handheld radio you bring yourself. We will space out cars to make sure folks can safely maintain 6 feet of distance. We ask that folks stay in their cars unless they are picking up concessions or using the restroom. Whenever you are out of your car, you are required to wear a mask for everyone’s safety.
IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, PLEASE BRING A SMALL OR REGULAR SIZED CAR (sedan sized or smaller). We want to make sure EVERYONE gets a great space. SUVS, TRUCKS, CARS WITH HIGH ROOFS/RACKS/ITEMS ON ROOF often have to be parked further away from the screen to avoid sightline issues.
If you bring a larger car, arrive as near to when we open our gates as possible to get the best possible space.
We are proud to continue our partnership with ELECTRIC DUSK DRIVE IN (https://www.electricduskdrivein.com) into April 2021!
We continue with a double bill of Wes Anderson classics!
What better way to say Spring and hope and regeneration than with two of Anderson’s most hopeful, classic features. Made back to back early in his career, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums still stand as two of his very best.
First up, Rushmore, the movie that announced Wes Anderson was a directorial vision to be reckoned with.
Rushmore follows the many schemes and dreams of lackluster yet totally driven and inspirational Rushmore Academy student Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman). Max falls for new Rushmore teacher, Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams), and begins a friendship with disillusioned industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray in a career best performance) who happens to have sons who attend the school. But when Herman falls for Rosemary as well, a hilariously strange love triangle is formed with cutthroat rivalry, confusion, and coming of age realizations that ensure.
Rushmore is in many ways the absolute perfect distillation of Anderson’s style at a critical crossroads. Realistic enough that all the character motivations are hilarious and believable, but stylized enough to be a cinematic tour de force.
We follow Rushmore with Anderson’s very next feature and one of actor Gene Hackman’s very last performances for the screen The Royal Tenenbaums. If Rushmore was Anderson’s nod to Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude then Tenenbaums is Anderson’s wink at Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons.
We follow a very dysfunctional family of geniuses as their estranged wayward father, Royal (played to perfection by Hackman), returns to try and ingratiate himself back into everyone’s good graces. But his children borderline hate him and his ex-wife is about to get married.
Royal is determined to put his family back together again but each of its members have their own mini-crises to deal with. Anderson’s career long meta-theme of broken and re-constructed families has one of its most potent incarnations here in a movie that is both hilarious and incredibly sincere.
So join us for two of Anderson’s best as we kick off April 2021 in style!
Best always,
Craig Hammill
35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR PARKING LOT CINEMA SERIES
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.
HELPFUL PARKING LOT CINEMA TIPS:
Please make sure you know how to hit off your car headlights before attending. For newer cars, the process is usually:
1. Activate the Parking Break.
2. Make sure the lights are switched to off.
3. Then turn the car on. The lights will stay off unless they are manually turned on. Repeat the process to turn them off again.
Bring warm clothes, blankets, a few layers just in case it gets chilly and you don’t want to run your car the entire movie (although you totally can if you want).
Make sure you know how to work your CAR RADIO so you can TUNE to any frequency you want.
The earlier you arrive, the better space/closer to the screen you will get! Once you get parked, you can totally leave the lot, go to get food, come back.
HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com or sales@electricduskdrivein.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.