SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our HOLIDAY MOVIE PARTY series ! Saturday, December 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.
6pm FANNY & ALEXANDER: THE COMPLETE TV VERSION (1982, wri/dir by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, Janus, 312 minutes)
*We'll be playing the definitive complete TV version (the severely edited feature versions of this work and Scenes from a Marriage were forced on Bergman by international distributors). If you've never seen the full Fanny & Alexander, it's a revelation and so much richer, deeper, profound, affecting then the feature version. Once you see it, you immediately understand it as one of the greatest works in all Bergman's career.
We'll have holiday cider, food, drink on hand complete with a 20 minute leg stretching intermission between episodes 1-3 and 4-5.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***Starting November 4th, 2021 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 a religious exemption, please have proof of a negative 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 BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES 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!
As we approach the holidays, it's important to us to show some of the greatest holiday movies of all time from around the world. One of the greatest is Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander.
Bergman tells a story-part fiction, part very clear autobiography-of siblings Fanny & Alexander who go from the warm, boisterous holiday parties and theater productions of their early youth to a disastrous time with a strict minister stepfather (after the death of their beloved theater owning father). All the while, they never lose their love for each other, their family, or their vivid imaginations.
Bergman, like Kurosawa would with Ran just a few years later, let everyone know he intended this work to be a summation piece and his final feature film. Though Bergman would go on to do other TV works and even one more feature (Saraband, a kind of sequel to his Scenes from a Marriage), Fanny and Alexander takes many of his lifelong obsessions-the theater, God, family, youth, memory-and weaves them into a spell-binding all time classic.
Opening at a holiday party at Fanny & Alexander's beloved grandmother's, introducing almost all the main players, Fanny & Alexander shows Bergman and his collaborators-most notably cinematographer Sven Nykvist-at the height of their powers giving everything.
The shortened feature version takes so much out of the story that much of the meaning of Bergman's intent was obscured or lost (though the feature version is still very strong). We want to correct that tonight.
This movie is a joy and a holiday gift for all. Come enjoy one of the greatest works by one of the greatest masters of cinema the world has ever known.
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.
There is, however, free parking all around the theater on Wilson and Bay Streets.
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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.