Secret Movie Club
A Los Angeles based movie theater by movie makers for movie lovers.
Secret Movie Club celebrates community through movie culture. We offer curated movie programming, exclusive streaming event parties, film festivals, movie premieres, director q&a’s, filmmaker workshops, open mic short nights & more. Located in downtown Los Angeles's exciting Arts District, our flagship theater serves as a creative community space for movie lovers & movie makers. We host pop-up events at iconic movie palaces and theaters across Los Angeles and San Diego, bringing our unique cinematic experiences to you. Be a part of the movement.
Upcoming Events
SMC Screenings
The SECRET MOVIE Club THEATER
1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021
Events/screenings/series (on 35mm film as often as we can) at our Secret Movie Club Theater headquarters in downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District. Movie screenings, streaming events, film festivals, premieres, movie culture parties, private rentals, filmmaker workshops, special movie community events, and more.
Secret Movie Club “Pop Ups”
Our bigger movie events often hosted at downtown Los Angeles’s historic movie palaces. Secret Movie Club Signature Events: These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club Signature Events
These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club, San Diego
Secret Movie Club brings the Secret Movie Club experience to San Diego.
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SMC Pod #168: The Lubitsch Touch, a prologue
First and foremost, Secret Movie Club sends everyone affected by the Los Angeles fires (this podcast is posted January 2025) the best. We're here as a community to help rebuild. If it can bring a smile to your face in a helpful way, we offer this podcast on "The Lubitsch Touch". Master classic Hollywood filmmaker Ernest Lubitsch developed a cinematic shorthand storytelling style full of visual, verbal, and cinematic grace/flair. If he could convey character or information cinematically rather than through clunky dialogue, he did it. This style, the essence of what cinema can do, inspired countless moviemakers most notably master moviemaker Billy Wilder. Today we look just at Lubitsch's 1932 pre-code sophisticated sex comedy masterpiece Trouble In Paradise and the examples of his subtle touch therein.