SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our TAKE A CHANCE CINEMA series! Wednesday, January 12, 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.
8pm VISITOR Q (2001, dir by Takashi Miike, Cinerocket, 84mns)
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!
Our TAKE A CHANCE CINEMA January 2022 selection is famed Japanese badboy auteur Takashi Miike's VISITOR Q.
Made as part of a 6 film series in 2001 to showcase how low budget digital video moviemaking can potentially expand cinematic storytelling, Visitor Q is unlike anything you have ever seen. Definitely disturbing. Definitely way beyond NC-17. And no, we don't mean it's way erotic (though it does deal intensely with sexuality).
Visitor Q is structured as a series of taboo and boundary shattering questions which immediately cinematically explore said questions in even more unsettling and disturbing ways.
The first scene deals with a opportunistic journalist father having sex with his prostitute daughter. The second scene then jumps to his heroin addicted suburban wife being abused by her sullen son with a tennis racket.
This hyper-dysfunctional family is then jolted out of their (horrifying) routine by a mysterious stranger-Visitor Q-who somehow gains the Father's favor by hitting the father in the head with a rock.
But nothing in these initial scenes can prepare you for where the movie goes which is to explode comically even more unsettling taboos.
At this point, you might be asking. . ."Why the hell would I want to see this?"
And that's a totally valid question. But all this programmer can tell you is that this movie made by the same director who made the horror classic Audition, the hilarious musical zombie movie The Happiness of the Katakuris, and the apocalyptic gangster DOA trilogy, IS one of the best movies of the 21st century.
It cleverly dares you to turn it off with the perverse knowledge that if you stick with it, you're actually going to see one of the most life-affirming, tolerant, humanistic, and. . .dare we say it. . .optimistic movies Miike has ever made.
A hilarious and disturbing dark comedy as long as you can roll with explosive and disquieting subject matter, Visitor Q does what transgressive cinema can do at its best: it questions societal norms in an intentionally inflammatory way to get you to think about how individuals and societies might change to become more tolerant, more accepting, more merciful, more loving.
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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