AIRPLANE/TOP SECRET/NAKED GUN triple 35mm @ The Secret Movie Club Theater

SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

WE GOTTA LAUGH series! Friday, June 25, 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.

7pm AIRPLANE! (1980, dir by Zucker/Abrams, Paramount, 88mns, 35mm)

9pm TOP SECRET! (1984, dir by Zucker/Abrams, Paramount, 95mns, 35mm)

11pm THE NAKED GUN (1988, dir by David Zucker, Paramount, 85mns, 35mm)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

**WE WILL BE SWITCHING TO THE NEW PROTOCOLS AS OF 6/15/21 WHICH ALLOW FOR GREATER OCCUPANCY AND EASING OF RESTRICTIONS REGARDING MASK WEARING.

***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.

***WE STILL RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE BRING PROOF OF VACCINATION AND MASKS. FOLKS WHO HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE VACCINATION (OR DON'T HAVE PROOF OF VACCINATION) WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.

***PLEASE HAVE A PHOTO OF YOUR VACCINATION CARD READY ON YOUR PHONE AND/OR HAVE IT ON YOUR PERSON FOR EASE OF CHECK IN.

HOW TO:

1)WE'LL OPEN OUR DOORS ONE HOUR BEFORE SHOWTIME FOR FIRST FEATURE AND 30 MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME FOR BOTH THE SECOND AND THIRD FEATURE.

2)PLEASE BRING AND BE READY TO WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE THEATER AS A SAFETY PRECAUTION.

3)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!

4)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 [email protected] 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!

Sometimes we just gotta laugh. And what better way to do that then with the incredible 1-2-3 1980's punch of Zucker/Abrams genius comedies.

In many ways the heirs of the Marx Brothers' brand of visual, verbal, anarchic humor, Zucker/Abrams burst onto the scene in 1980 with our first feature, Airplane!, which itself was a spoof of the 1970's Airport series that constantly found celebrities up in airplane disasters.

Fascinatingly, Airplane! is so hilarious, you don't need any knowledge of the movies being spoofed, to recognize it immediately as one of the greatest American comedies of all time. Filled with an unbelievable jokes per minute ratio(often as high as 3-4 laugh out jokes in 60 seconds if you're really paying attention), Airplane! introduced Leslie Nielsen (we'll meet him again) as a comic master and found ways to make rock jawed 1950's matinee idols Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack, among others, also surprisingly hilarious.

We follow Airplane! with the Zucker/Abrams next collaboration, the equally hilarious and criminally underseen Top Secret! from 1984 starring Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, a kind of Elvis Presley singer who goes behind East German enemy lines during the Cold War and gets embroiled in a bunch of hilarious spy sh@t! Top Secret! is the insider's Abrams/Zucker collaboration of choice. It's filled with boundary pushing jokes and bravura bits of visual comedy (including a mind blowing underwater saloon fight!?!). Val Kilmer is genuinely hilarious and the whole movie is a blast.

We wrap up our triple with 1988's The Naked Gun which firmly established Leslie Nielsen as the go-to leading man for outrageous smart-stupid comedies for the next 20 years. Nielsen plays humorless LAPD detective Frank Drebin hot on a case but essentially making life miserable for everyone he comes into contact with including his partner O.J. Simpson (!!) and gorgeous mysterious femme fatalle Priscilla Presley.

Naked Gun is almost certainly the best of all the "spoof-stupid-smart" comedies after Airplane! filled with surprisingly biting jokes and great bits of visual humor.

So join us for a one-two-three punch of laughter!

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: [email protected] and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.

WHY ARE THE TICKET PRICES HIGHER THAN NORMAL?

In order for us to re-open, maintain health protocols , and screen movies on 35MM, we need to temporarily raise our ticket prices. We apologize.

However, if you could look at this as partially helping the Secret Movie Club Theater re-open, make the improvements as we go to turn this into the amazing movie watching, movie making center we know it can be, we would be eternally grateful.

We should be able to lower our ticket prices soon as we are able to increase capacity and lower restrictions.

If you could look at this as all of us being in this together, we WILL remember your kindness.

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.

HOW WILL OUR STAFF MAKE SURE THE THEATER IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE:

We will have staff in the theater at all times who make sure everyone is wearing masks and obeying protocols. We will have signage at entrance, markings at concessions, restrooms, etc so folks keep 6 ft distance at all times.

Anyone not observing safe protocols will kindly be asked to leave. On top of this, we’ll be making announcements at the head of each screening to make sure everyone understands the rules & regs!

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:

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