About this Event
Part of our Calling All Creatives series
Friday, December 18, 2026, 730p start, 930p Afterparty start
LOCATION: The Los Angeles Theater, 615 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014
AFTERPARTY: The 21+ Night Drive party at the Los Angeles Theater is from 930p-1230a. Your ticket gets you access to explore the entire theater, tours, the chance to hang in our secret VIP room (for folks who buy the VIP All Access Pass), dancing, DJ, full bar, food. Drinks and food are pay as you go so bring your card. On top of this, partygoers on this night get a sneak peek at Secret Movie Club’s 2027 season which includes screenings, festivals, workshops, Q&As, & more. Partygoers will get 1st chance at 2027 tickets, best rates, and a keepsake. Only 750 tickets available. All previous Afterparty events (like our Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings, and Halloween-o-thon afterparties) have sold out.
SPECIAL NOTE: This is part of our Calling All Creatives series celebrating movies, Hollywood, and the city of Los Angeles in preparation for our 2027 season. Secret Movie Club will run movie events, festivals, workshops to encourage moviemaking and creativity in Los Angeles, the city we love all 2027.
If you want to be a part of our Secret Movie Club vision, hear about events first, get special perks, chances to meet up before and after events, interact with community, sign up for a free SMC account here:
730p 35mm DRIVE (dir by Nicolas Winding Refn, wri by Hossein Amini, w/ Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, & Albert Brooks, Film District, 100mns, 2011, USA, 35mm)
930p-1230a The Night Drive/2027 Secret Movie Club Sneak Peek 21+ AFTERPARTY @ the Los Angeles Theater Movie Palace. [750 tickets total, all previous afterparty events have sold out]
You can get tickets to any individual movie and add the Afterparty a la carte or get the Drive VIP or Standard 21+ All-Access pass (movie with afterparty, best deals; VIP gets you a reserved seat 1st floor center rows and access to our special VIP room during Afterparty).
Please note we have a confirmed 35mm print for DRIVE.
730p DRIVE (dir by Nicolas Winding Refn, wri by Hossein Amini, w/ Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, & Albert Brooks, Film District, 100mns, 2011, USA, 35mm)
There are a select handful of movies that have become Los Angeles classics. Nicolas Winding Refn’s violent, beautiful, operatic nocturnal crime romance film Drive earned Refn the 2011 Cannes Best Director award and immediately ascended to the top of the firmament.
The movie that in many ways has come to represent Ryan Gosling’s meteoric rise in cinema, Drive follows Gosling’s quiet nameless Driver- a movie stunt driver by day and getaway driver for criminals at night. He falls in love with Irene (Mulligan), a single mother, only to get involved in a crime gone very wrong when her criminal husband Standard (Oscar Isaac in one of his very first star-making roles) returns home. From there everything spirals out of control leading Driver on a collision course with LA gangster Bernie Rose (an unsettlingly dark Albert Brooks) and his hatchet man Nino (Ron Perlman-great as always).
Reportedly, Refn was driving around LA with Gosling in pre-production and broke down in tears as they listened to music and Refn looked at LA’s nocturnal skyline. The filmmaker realized the movie was about that very moment and experience-isolation, wanting to connect, violence.
Very few movies have so perfectly captured the intense beating musical heart of Los Angeles as Drive. Join us for an incredible 35mm screening followed by a true Los Angeles/cinema afterparty.
930p-1230a The Night Drive/2027 Secret Movie Club Sneak Peek 21+ AFTERPARTY @ the Los Angeles Theater Movie Palace. [750 tickets total, all previous afterparty events have sold out]
After our Drive screening ends, we open the bars, food court, dance floor in the LA Theater’s ballroom (!), the DJ, give tours, take VIP ticket holders to the behind the screen secret VIP room, and have a great time with movielovers and moviemakers.
Your Afterparty ticket gets you access to explore the theater, meet fellow movielovers, toast drinks, talk movies, get tours of parts of this 1931 historic movie palace that regular public audiences rarely get to see, and more! What better way to celebrate Los Angeles and cinema than in a classic movie palace hanging out, having some drinks and food, and making it a night. Please note that food and drink is pay as you go so please bring your card.
Afterparty goers will also get a sneak peak at Secret Movie Club’s 2027 season, get 1st chance to get tickets to upcoming events, best prices, and a keepsake-all for the price of the afterparty ticket.
Event venue & nearby stays
Los Angeles Theatre, 615 South Broadway, Los Angeles, United States
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