Secret Movie Club
A Los Angeles based movie theater by movie makers for movie lovers.
Secret Movie Club celebrates community through movie culture. We offer curated movie programming, exclusive streaming event parties, film festivals, movie premieres, director q&a’s, filmmaker workshops, open mic short nights & more. Located in downtown Los Angeles's exciting Arts District, our flagship theater serves as a creative community space for movie lovers & movie makers. We host pop-up events at iconic movie palaces and theaters across Los Angeles and San Diego, bringing our unique cinematic experiences to you. Be a part of the movement.
Upcoming Events
SMC Screenings
The SECRET MOVIE Club THEATER
1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021
Events/screenings/series (on 35mm film as often as we can) at our Secret Movie Club Theater headquarters in downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District. Movie screenings, streaming events, film festivals, premieres, movie culture parties, private rentals, filmmaker workshops, special movie community events, and more.
Secret Movie Club “Pop Ups”
Our bigger movie events often hosted at downtown Los Angeles’s historic movie palaces. Secret Movie Club Signature Events: These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club Signature Events
These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club, San Diego
Secret Movie Club brings the Secret Movie Club experience to San Diego.
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SMC Pod #203: Classic Hollywood Christmas
Christmas movies are a genre unto themselves. And Classic Hollywood Christmas movies are a special part of that genre. Holiday movies made in Hollywood's heyday of the 1930's-1940's. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill takes a look at five favorites-Frank Capra's 1946 It's A Wonderful Life, Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 The Shop Around the Corner, Preston Struges' 1944 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Vincente Minnelli's 1944 Meet Me In St. Louis, and W.S.Van Dyke's 1934 The Thin Man. Interestingly, all these classic use dark subject matter-contemplated suicide, financial stress, murder, small town scandal-to contrast and thus emphasize Christmas themes of redemption, family, second chances. We also take a look at two modern classics-Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can and Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa and how they share much the same DNA as their classic Hollywood counterparts.