SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our LA LOVES MOVIES 35MM MARATHON Series, Saturday, August 23, 2025
1245pm Chinatown (dir by Roman Polanski, w/ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, 130mns, Paramount, USA, 35mm)
SPECIAL NOTES: As a thank you to our audience, this event has a 2 tickets for the price of 1 ticket offer if you get your tickets by Thursday, August 14, 2025. We want you back at the theaters! From Friday, August 15, 2025-Friday, August 22, 2025, you can get tickets at our early rate (save 20%). Tickets bought day of are full price.
We highly encourage our audience to have breakfast, lunch, dinner/drinks at next door’s Grand Central Market with your choice of dozens of cuisines. You can bring Grand Central Market food and drink into the theater.
Be prepared that we always have a DCP.digital backup just in case. But when we say 35mm that means we have secured a 35mm print for this event!
LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013
PARKING: Please note that we have a limited number of all-day validated parking tickets available at the Grand Central Market Parking Garage, 308 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 accessible on Hill Street just past 3rd Street. Please make sure to purchase a validated parking ticket here as an ADD ON and we will hand it to you when you enter the theater. There are also very close parking lots at the corner of 3rd and Hill Street, just a half block from theater. However we can't offer validation for those lots. . .yet.
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, written by Robert Towne, Chinatown somehow captured the paranoia of the 1970’s in an impeccable genre film about LA in the 1930’s.
The movie also plays with real-life fire as the moviemakers used details of Nicholson’s own personal life in some of the key twists and reveals that catapult the movie into its devastating third act.
One of the key LA noirs of all time.
We continue our LA Loves Movies 35mm marathon with a stone-cold classic. There are four more to come. . .(If you'd like to attend part or all of the day, make sure you get an all-day pass and save money).
Finally, if you’d like to support Secret Movie Club and its mission to nurture, support, and exhibit amazing movies and narrative storytelling work from everyone from celebrated masters to dynamic world voices to emerging local young filmmakers, please email us at community@secretmovieclub.com . We can discuss exciting and substantial ways you can support and be part of the journey. We’re planning special series, festivals, workshops, Q&As, premieres, and more in our 2025-2026 season which we aim to make our biggest season of cinema yet.
Secret Movie Club is here to help write the next chapter of cinema.
Frequently asked questions
Answer questions your attendees may have about the event, like accessibility and amenities.
HOW DOES PARKING WORK?
We have a limited number of parking validations ($10/ticket) for the Grand Central Market Parking Garage 308 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 accessible on Hill Street just past 3rd Street. Purchase validation here as an ADD ON and we will give to you at theater. There are many nearby lots as well.
ARE THERE CONVENIENT PUBLIC TRANSIT WAYS TO GET TO MILLION DOLLAR THEATER?
The nearest metro stop is Persian Square Station (500 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90013) about a 2-3 block walk from the entrance to the Million Dollar Theater. You can also use the Million Dollar Theater or Grand Central Market as destination/pick up for ride sharing apps.
WILL THERE BE CONCESSIONS SOLD AT THE THEATER?
Yes! We always serve fresh popped popcorn, a wide selection of candy, sodas, sparkling water, coffee, and sometimes even wine and beer. You can also bring in food and drink from the Grand Central Market just next door if you want to grab a meal before a screening.
IS SEATING RESERVED OR FIRST COME FIRST SERVE?
For now, our seating is first come, first serve. We may have reserved seating for future events but you would know as you would be directed to choose a seat from remaining available seats upon ticket purchase. For now, if you want best seat selection, come when we open doors 1 hr before showtime.
HOW CAN I HELP SUPPORT SECRET MOVIE CLUB AND BECOME PART OF ITS MISSION?
Email us at community@secretmovieclub.com if you'd like to explore ways to support, be a part of Secret Movie Club's upcoming events, programming, festivals, workshops, premieres, etc. Secret Movie Club believes in win-win partnerships and alliances. We're here to have a conversation.
HOW CAN WE CONTACT YOU IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS?
Please email us: community@secretmovieclub.com or call us at 213-834-9117. We do recommend email as the quickest way to get a response.
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