SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our THE HEART WANTS Series, Friday, February 24, 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 SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959, dir. Billy Wilder, United Artists, USA, 121mns, Digital)
10pm THE APARTMENT (1960, dir. Billy Wilder, United Artists, France, 125mns, Digital)
Our final double feature of our The Heart Wants series are two back to back mega hits of writer/director Billy Wilder.
It’s always fascinating when a director hits the “white hot” moment of their career when they produce back to back classics. One can think of Charlie Chaplin with The Kid and The Gold Rush through Federico Fellini with La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2 through Steven Spielberg with Jaws and Close Encounters (and then Raiders and E.T.).
Billy Wilder made bangers with the regularity of the turning of the sun. Almost every year or two, the new Billy Wilder movie from the early 1940’s through the late 1960’s came out to both critical acclaim and commercial successs. But never as stunningly as his back to back triumphs here.
Some Like It Hot, which follows Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as jazz musicians who witness a mob massacre and go into hiding in drag with an all-female band fronted by Marilyn Monroe, caught everyone by surprise with its mix of Shakespearean mistaken identity and raucous frank sexuality. It has since also become beloved by a generation for its LGBTQ themes and tolerance of all kinds of love and relationships.
We follow Some Like it Hot with The Apartment made just one year later and doubling down on an examination of complicated sexual and emotional relationships as romantic comedy.
Office drone C.C. “Bud” Baxter (everyman extraordinaire Jack Lemmon) suddenly finds himself on the ladder of promotion when he makes his apartment available to middle managers for their sexual trysts and affairs. But when he discovers that his boss Sheldrake (a surprisingly intimidating Fred MacMurray) is having an affair with elevator operator Fran Kubelik (wonderfully vulnerable Shirley MacLaine), a woman C.C. himself has emotions for, everything gets even more complicated. Quick.
Winner of the 1960 award for Best Picture, The Apartment juggles comedy and tragedy, hilarity and pathos, with a jaw dropping skill only a pro like Billy Wilder (with three decades of experience and an instinct for risk-taking) could pull off.
Often considered one of the greatest of American comedies (or movies period), The Apartment will inspire any movielover or moviemaker with just how profound movies can be about experiences we often don’t know how to talk about.
Join us for these two Billy Wilder bangers to close out our February!
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
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REFUNDS:
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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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