SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our PALM SPRINGS 70MM GETAWAY Film Festival, Ssaturday, May 6th, 2023
LOCATION: Palm Springs Cultural Center (Camelot Theater) 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262
SPECIAL NOTE: Take a cinematic vacation to Palm Springs, California. We're showing 70MM classic movies Friday, May 5, 2023 through Sunday, May 7, 2023 at the historic Camelot Theater: built SPECIFICALLY for 70MM. (The Master on Friday, Titanic on Saturday & 2001 on Sunday)
On Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 11p-2am, we host an afterparty at the Amigo Room at the Ace Hotel, Palm Springs. During the days, you have all of downtown Palm Springs for vintage shopping, eating, hanging out, relaxing by the pool.
We have a discount code for folks wanting to stay at the Ace (use code: ARTSHOW) although there may be even better deals if folks do some internet sleuthing both at the Ace and around Palm Springs.
7pm TITANIC (1997, dir. James Cameron, Paramount, 195mns, 70mm - Reel 1 on 35mm)
*We’re honored to have the opportunity to screen Paramount’s very own archive 70MM print of Titanic. The first reel of the movie will be shown on 35mm as a way for the audience to compare and see the difference between the 35mm film and 70MM film formats. There will be no pause in the movie.
Our cornerstone 70mm screening this year is the rare opportunity to see Paramount’s very own archive 70mm print of James Cameron’s Titanic. As a way of demonstrating the difference between 35mm and the 70mm format, we will screen the first reel of Titanic on 35mm then go immediately to 70mm for the duration of the movie (with no pause).
When James Cameron undertook Titanic in the mid 1990’s, many in the industry had their doubts. And when the movie ballooned in budget, went over schedule, and got delayed several times, many were predicting it would be the ruin of Cameron and Paramount.
What did everyone learn? Never bet against James Cameron.
When Titanic finally premiered in late 1997, it powered its way to the number one movie of all history in record time.
Looking back on this phenomenon twenty six years later, the miracle is that the movie is actually even better than one might remember it from their youth.
Cameron is one of cinema’s consummate craftsmen. But beyond that, he is a kind of savant who understands almost every aspect of what it takes to make a good movie. Much more than an expert innovator of special effects, Cameron made sure that Titanic was powered by two hothouse flower performances by Leonardo Di Caprio (who catapulted into stratospheric superstardom here) as ambitious dreamer and stowaway Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as willful independent upper class Rose Dewitt Bukater engaged to Billy Zane’s overbearing, narcissistic industrialist millionaire.
Of course the two are going to meet and fall in love, all the while the boat hurtles towards its date with destiny with an iceberg waiting in the darkness of the Northern Atlantic night.
Cameron knows he’s making a movie in the old school classic Hollywood mold and he uses the first two hours to lay out the geography of the ship, the separation of lower, working, upper class passengers, the life of the passengers versus the life of the ship’s workers.
By the time we get to the final hour and the (still) mind blowing seamless effects extravaganza of the ship’s disaster, we are so invested in the characters that their fates and whether they escape icy death or not grip us on the edge of our seats.
A masterclass in how a blockbuster special effects movie should be grounded in story, character, and emotion, Titanic will blow your mind when you see it in its optimum format: 70mm film.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
ANSWERS FOR OUR 70MM PALM SPRINGS GETAWAY 2023
PACKAGE DEAL:
We are offering an MOVIES + AFTERPARTY PASS for $60/per person. This gets you into all three 70MM movies (The Master, Titanic, 2001) and Saturday's afterparty at the Ace Hotel Amigo Room (ticket gets you admission + one free drink). Or you can purchase the MOVIES ONLY PASS for $45/per person if you would like to skip the party. Finally, you can purchase each movie and the party ticket al a carte!
ACCOMMODATIONS:
We have a discount code for folks wanting to stay at the Ace (use code: ARTSHOW) although there may be even better deals if folks do some internet sleuthing both at the Ace and around Palm Springs.
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 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)
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