Sunset Boulevard & Chinatown 35mm double feature

Saturday, August 23, 2025, Million Dollar Theater

Masterpiece LA movies. Let's celebrate & show this city love!

10a Sunset Boulevard (1950) 35mm The acidic Billy Wilder classic. Struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (an impossibly beautiful William Holden) gigolos for has been movie star Norma Desmond (a towering performance by Gloria Swanson). Hollywood Babylon and one of the inspirations for David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive.

1245p Chinatown (1974) 35mm Smartmouth private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson in full-on devil may care mode) realizes he doesn’t know the half of it when he takes on a Los Angeles case about the city’s rich and its water supply. When he falls for mysterious Evelyn Cross-Mulray (a note perfect Faye Dunaway), he realizes there are horrors worse than guns when he meets her father, a towering John Huston as Noah Cross. Directed by Roman Polanski, one of the key LA noirs of all time.

Come to 1 or both. 2-1 ticket offer for each movie through 8/21/25. Get the double feature pass, save money, enjoy breakfast lunch dinner at next door's historic Grand Central Market.