SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our MARCH MUSICAL MADNESS series! Saturday, March 19, 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. We’ll have staff to help guide/park you.

730pm PURPLE RAIN (1984, Music by Prince, directed by Albert Magnoli, Warner Brothers, 111mns, 35mm)

945pm SIGN O THE TIMES (1987, Music by and directed by Prince, Film Rise, 85mns)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***ALL AUDIENCE will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. PLEASE HAVE YOUR VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL VACCINATION CARD READY BEFORE ENTERING THE THEATER. If you have an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level COVID test within 3 days of the screening.

***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.

***EVERYONE WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.

HOW TO:

1)PLEASE BRING AND WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING INSIDE THE THEATER AS A SAFETY PRECAUTION.

2)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our tables in our lobby prior to the screening.

We will be able to sell concessions & merchandise at the theater. But it will make everything much quicker and easier if you pre-order!

3)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 your complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. Let’s all do our part to beat this thing so we can go back to the complete movie going experience!

First Prince owned the 80's. Now he owns eternity.

Tonight, we work to replicate a Prince based concert model where he would play a stadium show then find a club and continue playing into the early morning.

We're showing two Prince classics back to back.

First is the all-time forever masterpiece Purple Rain on 35mm. One of the very rare musician-driven narrative movies that actually delivers what it promises, Purple Rain is the very thinly-veiled semi-autobiographical story of "The Kid" (played by Prince) and his band The Revolution (the actual Revolution band) as they compete with Morris Day and the Time at Minneapolis's famed First Avenue nightclub.

When "The Kid" meets new to town singer Apollonia, he falls in love, but he also struggles with the dysfunction of his home life where his black father and white mother argue nightly in a rocky marriage.

All the while, "The Kid" struggles to breakthrough to the audience as his personal resentments often cloud his ability to connect to the people to whom he's singing.

Purple Rain is just one banger song and scene after another leading to the climactic showdown between the two bands. The irony being that Prince wrote the music FOR EVERYONE so basically you're just hearing Prince compete against Prince.

Even more jaw dropping is that the movie is structured around a demo tape that Revolution band members Wendy and Lisa give The Kid to develop.

Often in movies like these, the climactic "hit" song is actually not that great. Here it's Purple Rain one of the greatest tracks (in this programmer's opinion) of all time.

We follow up Purple Rain with Prince's incredible 1987 concert film Sign O The Times (this programmer's personal favorite Prince album) which uses both live and staged footage to give a 90 minute sense of Prince's concerts in the late 80's.

Prince seemed to live to write and perform music. He lived, breathed, created music as a form of idiosynchratic prayer. And his concerts took you to an even deeper and higher level because you'd realize on top of all that, Prince was a mother-f@#$ing top level guitarist, dancer, show-stager.

So come tonight to wash yourself clean in the waters of Lake Minnetonka and be born again in the musical discovery of the Purple One at the very height and pinnacle of his powers.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

35mm 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 us at: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.

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.

We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.

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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