SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our 2024 SPECIAL SPEAKERS Series, Monday, February 19, 2024
SPECIAL NOTE: We are very excited to kick off our 2024 year with a screening of the amazing GODZILLA MINUS ONE followed by an in-person Q&A with the movie's writer/director/VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki. We are holding 30 seats for AMPAS Members. So if you are an AMPAS member, please reach out to us at: community@secretmovieclub.com
LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021
*Please note entrance/parking is in the back of the 1917 Bay St building. Our entrance is NOT on Bay Street. You access our entrance from Wilson Street by turning into the street art alleyway/corridor in the back of the building. Follow our signs posted on Wilson and in the corridor to guide you to our entrance.
6pm GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023, wri/dir/co-VFX Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, Japan, 125mns, DCP)
What can one say about one of the greatest movies of 2023 that took everyone by surprise?
Toho's GODZILLA MINUS ONE, the 33rd entry in its storied franchise, written, directed, and co-VFX supervised by Takashi Yamazaki (who joins us in person for a post-movie Q&A!!) has turned out to be one of the very best in the series. But even more miraculously, one of the great blockbuster epics of 2023, made for only $10million US.
GODZILLA MINUS ONE takes us back to the series' roots with a story that starts at the desperate end of World War II where kamikaze pilot Koichi and an island of Japanese military mechanics witness a Godzilla attack that nearly kills them all.
When an ashamed, traumatized Koichi returns to a post-war ravaged Tokyo, he struggles mightily to build up a new life. Along the way he meets fellow survivor Noriko who has rescued an orphaned baby, Akiko. They form a makeshift family as they try to put back together lives just like all of Japan.
Meanwhile, Koichi gets a job with a salty crew of shipmates destroying all the mines that still remain out in the ocean. But soon, after the US tests its H-bomb, the monster Koichi saw at the end of World War II, resurfaces, larger, more powerful, more terrifying than ever. And Godzilla heads to Tokoyo, the living embodiment of the horrible potential of the nuclear age.
Somehow GODZILLA MINUS ONE manages to communicate the horrors of the atom bomb better than OPPENHEIMER. Taking its inspiration from the very first somber movie in the series, 1954's GODZILLA (directed by Ishiro Honda), this Godzilla is full on metaphor, horror, terror.
Yamazaki-san and his team also manage the impossible (at least up to this point in the Godzilla series) by making the human story as compelling and necessary as the kaiju Godzilla monster attacks. This is the Godzilla movie that is going to make you cry.
GODZILLA MINUS ONE reminds us, in 2023, that epic movies of scale, scope, and movie magic can still be made. More amazing, made for a low budget in the right hands of brilliant creatives.
Join us tonight to see this instant classic. And stay to learn how it was done as we have the honor of speaking with Yamazaki-san himself about he and his team made one of the all-time great Godzilla movies.
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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