SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
TAKE A CHANCE CINEMA ! Tuesday, November 30, 2021
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.
8pm HARD TO BE A GOD(2013, dir by Aleksei German, Kino Lorber, 177mns)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***Starting November 4th, 2021 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 a religious exemption, please have proof of a negative 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 BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES 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!
From time to time, we've programmed a movie we hope you'll take a chance on. You might remember a few years ago when we programmed Jacques Audiard's 2009 Cannes Film Festival winning prison gangster drama/spiritual awakening powerhouse Un Prophete. Or a year later, 2014's stunning Ukranian movie without any spoken dialogue about troubled teens in a deaf high school The Tribe written & directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy.
Now, we hope you'll take another chance with us as we screen what this programmer feels is one of the greatest movies of the 2010's: the Russian sci-fi opus Hard To Be A God.
Adapted and directed by Aleksei German who died before its release (his family put on the final touches), Hard to Be A God tells the story of a group of astronauts from Earth who are living incognito on a planet much like our own where the society has never left the middle ages. The astronauts have sworn only to OBSERVE not to INFLUENCE events. But one astronaut, Don Rumata, posing as a local Duke, finds it increasingly hard not to act as he watches religious superstition, hypocrisy, and abuse keep people in poverty and keep idiots in power.
An utterly singular and strange movie where you feel YOU ARE ON THE PLANET rather then in a movie, you have to adapt to the movie's hypnotic strange rhythms and mind-blowing production design. But if you get on the wavelength of this movie, you experience something akin to a cross of Dune and Solaris.
Yes. The movie for sure acts as a metaphor for totalitarian countries that refuse to embrace advancements and liberalizations that would democratize life for all. But it also gets at something much more profound and universally human. A sense of indignation and struggle to know when to act, when not to act. What one can control. What one can't control.
One of the most profound and inexplicable sci-fis this programmer has ever seen. If you're ready to take a chance, come take a chance on this cinematic masterpiece.
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.
There is, however, free parking all around the theater on Wilson and Bay Streets.
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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
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