SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our THE EVOLUTION OF ADAM SANDLER series! Saturday, January 8, 2022

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.

730pm PUNCH DRUNK LOVE (2002, wri/dir by Paul Thomas Anderson, Park Circus, 96mns)

930pm UNCUT GEMS (2019, wri/dir by the Safdie Brothers, A24, 35mm, 135mns)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***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 an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level 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 WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING 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!

Part of our mission at Secret Movie Club is to look at cinema from 360 degrees. . .and never EVER be elitist or snobby. So we're doing an Evolution of Adam Sandler series to look at two of his earliest, most hilarious comedies and two of his more fascinating auteur director partnership complex roles.

Tonight, we look at possibly the two MOST successful Sandler vehicles where he paired up with auteur filmmakers to stretch his boundary and range.

First up is Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love. In many ways, THE movie where Anderson declared he was going to commit to his own voice and explore that idiosynchrisy to the best of his ability. Anderson, like the Safdies, cleverly takes the basic outline of an Adam Sandler comedy (a man-child with anger issues must find a way to transcend to accomplish his goal) and totally explodes it into something beautiful.

Here we follow San Fernando businessman Barry Egan across a particularly beautiful and stressful few days as he meets who might possibly become the love of his life (a wonderful and fiercely her own person Emily Watson) while at the same time dealing with the aftermath of a poorly decided call to a phone sex hotline that turns out to be a front for extortionist con artists.

Anderson finds a way to cinematically convey Barry's growing anxiety and stress while simultaneously capturing that wonderful rush of falling in love.

We follow this with possibly Sandler's greatest performance, that of Howie, an out of control New York jeweler, with a horrible debt, a young mistress, a gambling addiction, and a life nine toes over the edge of the cliff.

Again, the Safdie Brothers find a very brilliant way to take what Sandler does best and turn it into the stuff of cinematic gold. Sandler, for his part, totally commits to the character and turns in a no-holds barred performance that represents (to date) the pinnacle of his craft and even harkens back to the great anti-hero performances of the 1970's.

Plus you get the Safdie Brothers at full tilt crafting a cinema of anxiety where you have no idea what will happen next.

So let's look at the two sides of the very talented Adam Sandler and watch his evolution. . .and hope for more!

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.

We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.

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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