SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our SOFIA SOIREE Series, Friday, May 19, 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 THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999, dir. Sofia Coppola, Paramount, USA, 97mns, 35mm)
9:40pm LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003, dir. Sofia Coppola, Universal, USA, 103mns, 35mm)
Tonight we kick off our two part Sofia Soiree series of four movies by Sofia Coppola. First up is Ms. Coppola’s debut feature The Virgin Suicides.
It should probably have come as no surprise that the daughter of two very talented moviemakers would herself take up the family business. Much like the Hustons and Barrymores in acting, the Coppolas have now produced three generations of writer/directors.
Everyone was stunned and entranced by Sofia Coppola’s debut which follows the strange suicidal death of a group of mysterious sisters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and how it affects everyone in the community.
With the same commitment to an unexplainable mystery that pervades every scene as the Australian Picnic at Hanging Rock, Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides plays as a kind of desperate search for an innocent American adolescence that may have never really existed.
Many of Coppola’s trademarks are here, her focus on the female psyche at the center of her movies, her dreamlike and otherworldly approach to cinematography, all, nevertheless, rooted in often deep and anguished emotion.
We follow this with Coppola’s breakout second feature Lost in Translation. A semi-autobiographical comedy about two Americans having personal crises while in Japan who find each other, Lost in Translation manages to be simultaneously hilarious, emotional, deeply earnest, biting.
The movie is powered by the performances of Scarlett Johannson as Charlotte, disenchanted in her marriage to a famous movie director, and Bill Murray as Bob Harris, a middle aged American star, taking a break from his own marriage by shooting a whiskey commercial.
The two meet each other in the Tokyo hotel at which they’re staying and proceed to spend the weekend together. Punctuated with gorgeous scenes of Tokyo city and nightlife, the movie is also a showcase for Murray at his improvisatory best often dropping spur of the moment one liners as if it was nothing to think of them.
The movie also acts as a fascinating mirror to Spike Jonze’s Her. Jonze and Coppola were married and then divorced. These two movies show their feelings inside and outside the marriage.
Coppola captures millennium lightning in a bottle here with one of her most emotional, vulnerable, and satisfying movies in her body of work.
Join us to watch both on 35mm!
Best always,
Craig Hammill
Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
*Please note that though we strive to always show titles on 35mm film if advertised, we may have to screen digitally if the print we receive is in such bad shape or if we don't receive the print in time because of a shipping delay. We will do our best to alert the audience. When this does occur, we will offer each ticket holder who chooses not to attend a complimentary ticket to a future event in exchange. (Disclaimer: Good for 90 days – Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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)
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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