SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our MARCH MUSICAL MADNESS Series, Friday, March 10, 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 PERFORMANCE (1970, dir. Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, Warner Bros., UK, 101mns, Digital)
9:30pm THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976, dir. Nicolas Roeg, Rialto, UK, 140mns, 35mm)
It’s fascinating how rock and roll changed cinema in wild and wonderful ways.
Exhibit one: Performance a movie made in 1968 but not released until 1970 for fear it was too out there, sexual, and violent. Performance follows violent British gangster Chas (James Fox) who goes into hiding at the home of shadowy rock star Turner (Mick Jagger). Slowly the two form a strange bond and lose their identities in each other.
A kind of rock and roll Persona, Performance introduced the world to Nicolas Roeg as a director as well ass Donald Cammell who, though his filmography is short, has made some of the most idiosyncratic movies of the last 50 years. Performance also builds to a great performance of "Memo From Turner" which most modern audience members recognize from Goodfellas.
This is also almost certainly the best movie Mick Jagger was ever in. Possibly because he is playing a character based on himself and people he knew at the time.
A few years later, Roeg would solo direct rock and roll genius David Bowie in the unclassifiable and bizarre sci-fi The Man Who Fell To Earth which we’re screening on 35mm. Though the movie starts out with what appears to be a straightforward narrative-an alien(David Bowie) lands on earth and announces his presence, it soon becomes a stream of consciousness cinematic acid trip. Bowie himself wrote Station to Station, one of his greatest albums, around the time of the making of the movie. Bowie was so strung out and depressed from his cocaine use (the whole movie feels like cocaine on celluloid) that he wrote the album as a kind of prayer for his own redemption. Shortly thereafter Bowie would move to Germany with Iggy Pop and never again take on the glam-rock invented personas of his early 70’s period.
Come see two fascinating time capsules of the joys and sorrows of being a rock musicians in the 60’s and 70’s.
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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