SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
SCORSESE BALLHAUS ! Friday, June 18, 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.
730pm THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993, dir by Martin Scorsese, Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus, Sony, 139mns, 35MM)
1015pm THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942, dir by Orson Welles, RKO, 88mns, 35MM)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
**WE WILL BE SWITCHING TO THE NEW PROTOCOLS AS OF 6/15/21 WHICH ALLOW FOR GREATER OCCUPANCY AND EASING OF RESTRICTIONS REGARDING MASK WEARING.
***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.
***WE STILL RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE BRING PROOF OF VACCINATION AND MASKS. FOLKS WHO HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE VACCINATION (OR DON'T HAVE PROOF OF VACCINATION) WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.
***PLEASE HAVE A PHOTO OF YOUR VACCINATION CARD READY ON YOUR PHONE AND/OR HAVE IT ON YOUR PERSON FOR EASE OF CHECK IN.
HOW TO:
1)WE'LL OPEN OUR DOORS ONE HOUR BEFORE SHOWTIME FOR FIRST FEATURE AND 30 MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME FOR SECOND FEATURE.
2)PLEASE BRING AND BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE THEATER AS A SAFETY PRECAUTION.
3)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!
4)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!
Tonight we continue our SCORSESE BALHAUS series celebrating one of the greatest cinematic creative partnerships of the last 40 years by screening Scorsese & Ballhaus's The Age of Innocence along with one of the key movies from which it drew inspiration: Orson Welles's stunning second feature The Magnificent Ambersons. BOTH ON 35MM!
Scorsese has made a career as much defying expectations as surpassing them. One of the greatest surprises in a career of surprises was this 1993 adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel all about the strangely predatory and strict rules of the New York upper class in the late 19th century when it came to romance, love, marriage.
Daniel Day Lewis shines (as he almost always does) as Newland Archer, a New York lawyer, engaged to the beautiful, young May (a deceptively innocent Winona Ryder), who suddenly discovers himself passionately drawn to the newly widowed Countess Oleska (a wonderfully pragmatic Michelle Pfieffer). All of them want to do the right thing. But the gossipy strictures of New York society makes it hard for all of them to deal with the triangle privately.
Ballhaus and Scorsese made one of Scorsese's most ornate, stunning, emotional movies. And this movie was Ballhaus's personal favorite of all his Scorsese collaborations.
We follow Innocence with one of the most undersung masterpieces of all cinema, Orson Welles' 2nd feature The Magnificent Ambersons. The tortured story of Ambersons is well known to cinefiles. Welles' hot off Citizen Kane adapated the Booth Tarkington novel about a spoiled young man who gets his comeupance at the turn of the century when his family's fortunes start to fall and another family's fortunes start to rise.
Part veiled autobiography of Welles' youth, part stylistic tour de force, part fascinating look at the death of a kind of old American aristocracy as a new business middle class rose to the fore, Ambersons is a stunning film. Even in its 88 minute truncated version when RKO, under new management, cut 30 minutes from the movie, shot a new "happy ending", and released it while Welles was away in Brazil shooting a documentary for the WWII effort.
But no one can erase the pure genius evident in every shot, sequence, decisions of Ambersons. It is, in some ways, an even more assured, impressive picture than Kane. And we get to show it on 35mm!
Watch the movie that inspired Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and countless others with its brilliant take on complicated families.
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.
WHY ARE THE TICKET PRICES HIGHER THAN NORMAL?
In order for us to re-open, maintain health protocols , and screen movies on 35MM, we need to temporarily raise our ticket prices. We apologize.
However, if you could look at this as partially helping the Secret Movie Club Theater re-open, make the improvements as we go to turn this into the amazing movie watching, movie making center we know it can be, we would be eternally grateful.
We should be able to lower our ticket prices soon as we are able to increase capacity and lower restrictions.
If you could look at this as all of us being in this together, we WILL remember your kindness.
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.
HOW WILL OUR STAFF MAKE SURE THE THEATER IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE:
We will have staff in the theater at all times who make sure everyone is wearing masks and obeying protocols. We will have signage at entrance, markings at concessions, restrooms, etc so folks keep 6 ft distance at all times.
Anyone not observing safe protocols will kindly be asked to leave. On top of this, we’ll be making announcements at the head of each screening to make sure everyone understands the rules & regs!
HOW CAN WE STAY ON TOP OF NEWLY ANNOUNCED 35MM SCREENINGS, EVENTS, ETC?
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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:
You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.