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UN PROPHETE (35mm) @ the Secret Movie Club Theater

  • Secret Movie Club 1917 Bay Street Los Angeles, CA, 90021 United States (map)

SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our TAKE A CHANCE CINEMA 2023 Series, Thursday, November 9, 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 UN PROPHETE (2009, co wri & dir by Jacques Audiard, Sony Pictures Classics, France, 155mns, 35mm)

One of the great 21st century movies took the Cannes Film Festival by storm in 2009.

Jacques Audiard's UN PROPHETE has, like its title, a bit of the miraculous. It is simultaneously the story of how a young Arab-French Alegerian petty thief Malik rises through the ranks of the Corsican mafia as he works for its charismatic and terrifying leader Cesar AND a story of personal and spiritual awakening in the most horrific of circumstances.

Audiard has a gangster epic ambition (which he achieves fully) and a focused spiritual character study (which he also achieves fully) in one beautiful, majestic, contradictory glorious movie.

This programmer has seen UN PROPHETE numerous times and it only grows in greatness like the truly powerful works of cinema.

If you've never seen the movie and need a film to revitalize your faith in cinema and its future, UN PROPHETE is it.

From its harrowing first act (where Malik must decide to murder a fellow prisoner or be murdered himself) through its center passages (which focus on the complicated relationship of Cesar and Malik as Malik gains knowledge and power) to its stunning, ineffable conclusion, UN PROPHETE is a cinematic must.

And we have it 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.

HOW CAN WE STAY ON TOP OF NEWLY ANNOUNCED 35MM SCREENINGS, EVENTS, ETC?

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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.