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NOSFERATU + Live Score by JCD Ensemble @ The MDT

  • Million Dollar Theater 307 South Broadway Los Angeles, CA, 90013 United States (map)

SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our SILENT FILM CLASSICS WITH LIVE SCORES! series! Friday, October 28, 2022

LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

*Please note, there is parking available at the Grand Central Market Parking Lot at the corner of 3rd and Hill Street (entrance on Hill Street) and at various lots. We have a limited number of $6 all day parking passes available for purchase via add-ons!

7:30pm NOSFERATU (1922, dir. F. W. Murnau, Kino Lorber, Germany, DCP)

Special Note: We’ll be showing F.W. Murnau’s eternal spooky horror classic with a live musical score by the Jack Curtis Dubowksy ensemble in the historic Million Dollar Theater Movie Palace.

It’s not Halloween nor a Secret Movie Club season if we don’t do a silent horror classic and have a live original musical score by our friends and partners the Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble. After such incredible evenings with Jack’s original scores for Sunrise and The Mark of Zorro, we wanted to return to the movie that started our partnership over three years ago, FW Murnau’s seminal vampire silent film masterpiece Nosferatu.

Murnau brought his very specific German Expressionist genius to the Dracula story creating a visually jaw dropping horror story that is as much metaphor for the seismic plagues and wars that overtake Europe as it is a gothic horror romance.

Set in the 1830’s, Nosferatu’s great asset (among many asset’s) is the completely committed (some have speculated mentally unhinged) performance of Max Schreck as Count Orlock (the Dracula character here). Schreck seems like he is actually a vampire who just happened to get cast in a movie rather than an actor playing a part. His look and uncanny dedication to the part set the template for a certain kind of inhuman immortal timeless vampire (lampooned hilariously in Taiki Waititi’s and Jermaine Clement’s What We Do In the Shadows).

Join us as you not only get a timeless silent film classic on the big screen in a movie palace but also a live and original musical score by a 9+ piece orchestra playing directly beneath the screen.

This is a Halloween night for the ages!

Best always,

Craig Hammill

Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

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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 MILLION DOLLAR THEATER MOVIE PALACE PARKING TIPS:

If you are attending any or all movies on any given day, you can go to ADD ONS and pre-order an all day $6 Grand Central Parking Lot Pass (while SUPPLIES last). The Grand Central Parking Lot is at the corner of 3rd Street and Hill Street just 1 block from the Million Dollar Theater entrance on 3rd & Broadway.

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