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ENTIRE HOLIDAY WEEKEND FRI, DEC 18, 2026-SAT, DEC 19, 2026 @ THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE MOVIE PALACE
35mm DRIVE + Night Drive 21+ Afterparty/Secret Movie Club 2027 Sneak Peek
SUMMARY: 35mm DRIVE screening followed by a Night Drive 21+ Afterparty & Secret Movie Club 2027 Sneak Peek. Movielovers and Moviemakers attending afterparty get 2027 SMC Member perks. Fri 12/18/26 730p start, Los Angeles Theatre, dtla.
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35mm WHITE CHRISTMAS & IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE Classic LA Christmas Party
SUMMARY: 35mm WHITE CHRISTMAS & IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE classic Hollywood Christmas double feature & Bedford Falls Ball holiday party at the Los Angeles Theater Movie Palace. Classic Hollywood fashion dress-up encouraged.
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:
https://www.secretmovieclub.com/account?signup=true&redirect=/community
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.
35mm WHITE CHRISTMAS & IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE Classic LA Christmas Party
SUMMARY: 35mm WHITE CHRISTMAS & IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE classic Hollywood Christmas double feature & Bedford Falls Ball holiday party at the Los Angeles Theater Movie Palace. Classic Hollywood fashion dress-up encouraged.
Part of our Calling All Creatives series
Saturday, December 19, 2026
LOCATION: The Los Angeles Theater, 615 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014
AFTERPARTY: The Bedford Falls Ball holiday party at the Los Angeles Theater is from 9p-12a. We want everyone who wants to to come dressed in classic 1930’s and 1940’s holiday fashion. We’ll have carolers, cocoa, cider, dancing, dj’s, & more to celebrate the holidays. 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), full bar, food, and more. Drinks and food are pay as you go so bring your card. Classic Hollywood dress encouraged. 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:
https://www.secretmovieclub.com/account?signup=true&redirect=/community
4p 35mm WHITE CHRISTMAS (dir by Michael Curtiz, w/Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, Paramount, 120mns, USA, 1954, 35mm)
Filmmaker Michael Curtiz could do it all so effortlessly. Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy. Here Curtiz, late in his career, crafts a frothy, holiday musical from what feels like spare parts from other movies. It’s like the director could make an expensive cadillac out of used car parts.
White Christmas uses the classic Hollywood structure of entertainers putting on shows to showcase a collection of Irving Berlin classic songs. Here the story follows World War II army buddies and later singing/dancing duo Bob Wallace (Crosby) and Phil Davis (Kaye). They become a much coveted entertaining team after the war and cross paths with up and coming sister act of Betty (Clooney) and Judy (Ellen) Haynes.
Romance and complications ensue with the quartet go to the Columbia Inn in Vermont to discover its owner is none other than General Waverly who commanded Bob and Phil in the war. And he’s about to go bankrupt. So what do you do?
You put on a show!
Shot in VistaVision, White Christmas became the biggest hit of 1954 and has endured for generations as an example of feel-good classic Hollywood holiday moviemaking.
Want to see a classic movie on 35mm in a movie palace? Join us, bring the family, and dream yourself a snowy White Christmas and cinema classic.
6p-645p Holiday Intermission — we'll have full bar, food, and concessions available.
645p IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (co-wri & dir by Frank Capra, w/ Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond, Paramount, 135mns, USA, 1946, 35mm)
As has become our annual tradition, we end the year with a 35mm screening of Frank Capra’s eternal holiday classic It’s A Wonderful Life. On a 35mm print. In a movie palace. With movielovers and moviemakers.
On the night of great crisis, angels from above review the life of hard working selfless George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart in his personal favorite movie role of his career). We see George go from boy to middle aged man and never leave his hometown of Bedford Falls. Instead, he always does the responsible thing, helps his neighbors, marries incredibly resourceful Mary (Reed), raises a family. But he’s also a thorn in the side of local richest man Mr. Potter (Barrymore) who wants to own and control the town and always finds George standing in his way.
When George, under great stress, considers killing himself so his family can get the insurance money, guardian angel Clarence (Travers) suddenly appears to show George what life would have been like had George never been born.
Not only one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) holiday movies of all time, It’s A Wonderful Life is one of the GREAT movies. Frank Capra and his team came up with a modern day A Christmas Carol structure that has one of the great third acts in all of cinema.
Powered by Capra’s 1930’s and 1940’s ensemble cast of great character actors, It’s A Wonderful Life is about the most important lesson of all-that people and kindness are the true currency of the world.
Join us for a great holiday movie and stay for a holiday party with movie lovers and movie makers.
9p-12a The Bedford Falls Ball AFTERPARTY @ the Los Angeles Theater Movie Palace.
You can get tickets to any individual movie and add the Afterparty a la carte or get the VIP or Standard Double Feature All-Access pass (both movies, with afterparty, best deals; VIP gets you a reserved seat 1st floor center rows and access to our special VIP room during Afterparty).
The Bedford Falls Ball holiday party at the Los Angeles Theater is from 9p-12a. Classic Hollywood 1930’s and 1940’s holiday fashion encouraged. We’ll have carolers, cocoa, cider, dancing, dj’s, & maybe even a Charleston contest! and more to celebrate the holidays. 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), full bar, food, and more. Drinks and food are pay as you go so bring your card. Classic Hollywood dress encouraged. Only 750 tickets available. All previous Afterparty events (like our Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings, and Halloween-o-thon afterparties) have sold out.
Please note we have confirmed 35mm prints for White Christmas and It’s A Wonderful Life.
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