SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our ANIME SUMMER ADVENTURE Series, Friday, July 7, 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 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. Look for our signs which are always posted on Wilson and in the corridor to guide the audience.
7:30pm PAPRIKA (2006, dir. Satoshi Kon, Sony Pictures Classics, Japan, 90mns, 35mm - Japanese w/ English subtitles)
Anime master of the dark, human, and mysterious Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers) turned in one of his most daring, strange, and imaginative movies with his final feature: Paprika.
Often cited as a potential influence on Inception, Paprika finds us in the near future where a new device “the DC mini” allows people to view other people’s dreams. The problem is there are no restrictions to access and so anyone can enter anyone else’s dreams.
Even Doctor Chiba (who goes by the moniker “Paprika” in the dream world) uses the machine against the rules to help psychiatric patients. Chaos, paranoia, and the unexplainable all merge as different people try to either exploit or suppress the machine.
Kon’s later period works (he sadly died prematurely in 2010) focused more and more on the danger, excitement, unpredictability of the human mind itself. His limited television series Paranoia Agent explored the subjectivity of human memory. Here Kon dares to take on our very dreams-the most unexplainable phenomena of human existence.
Whereas master anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki often uses myth, legend, fairy tale as the vehicle for his stories, Kon instead uses animation as a surprisingly adult tool of psychological exploration. In some ways, Kon is the “Bergman” of Japanese anime.
Join us for the rare chance to see this incredible indescribable work of speculative anime science fiction. On 35mm! In a theater.
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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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.