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Burbank1984 Vintage & HorrorA Burbank horror-and-vintage shop that occasionally turns its collector culture into screenings and themed events.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 7:00 PM · Scooby Doo Movie NightMiracle MileAcademy MuseumThe Academy's own film museum runs a serious repertory calendar across two purpose-built theaters, from family matinees to archival formats and filmmaker programs.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Big Trouble in Little ChinaSanta MonicaAero TheatreThe American Cinematheque's Santa Monica screen on Montana Avenue, running repertory programming with Q&As, double features and the occasional all-day marathon.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · FatherlandDTLA: Financial DistrictAlamo Drafthouse Los AngelesA Downtown dine-in cinema that treats repertory programming as part of the main calendar, then adds a working video store and bar inside the theater.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · BeetlejuiceGlendaleAlex TheatreA restored Glendale movie palace that now mixes live performance with occasional large-format film presentations and repertory events.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 8:00 PM · ¡Mocedades En Concierto!Long BeachArt Theatre of Long BeachA single-screen art deco cinema on Fourth Street that opened in 1925 as a silent movie house, complete with an orchestra pit and a pipe organ.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:45 PM · Corpse BrideGriffith ParkAutry MuseumA Griffith Park museum that programs film indoors and on the lawn, pairing Western history with documentary series and partner-run outdoor screenings.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 1:30 PM · What Is a Western? | Pale Rider (1985)Seal BeachBay TheatreA restored 1945 Seal Beach movie house back in operation as a single-screen cinema after years of closure.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · Matt Costa - Explorations Of Sight & SoundWestwoodBilly Wilder TheaterUCLA's public archive theater inside the Hammer Museum, where restorations, retrospectives and rare prints are screened free of charge.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:30 PM · Man Trouble / The Man Who Came BackPlayhouse DistrictBoston Court PasadenaBoston Court pairs new plays with concerts at a small scale, giving Pasadena audiences performances in two spaces that each seat fewer than 100.Next: Sat Dec 5 · 11:00 AM · NT Live: Fleabag (2026)FairfaxBrain Dead StudiosThe 1942 Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, leased since 2020 by the clothing label Brain Dead and run as a repertory cinema with a cafe up front.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Vagabon with Special Guests @ Brain Dead StudiosCerritosCerritos Center for the Performing ArtsA large suburban performing-arts center that occasionally presents film with live musical accompaniment and other event-style screenings.Next: Sun Dec 13 · 6:00 PM · A Nostalgic Night With Macaulay Culkin Following a Screening of Home AloneWest LACinefile VideoA video store on Santa Monica Boulevard in West LA, one of the last rental counters left in the country, selling used discs and taking Criterion pre-orders.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:30 PM · The Blood on Satan's ClawHollywoodCinespia at Hollywood ForeverOutdoor film screenings on the lawn at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, with DJ sets on either side of the movie and a free photo booth running alongside.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 7:15 PM · Jennifer's BodyWestlakeDynasty Typewriter at the HayworthAn independent comedy theater in the Hayworth Theatre on Wilshire, where the bills are published in full and the house identity runs to its own cartoon characters and merch.Next: Sat Oct 31 · 7:00 PM · Nightmare Before Christmas ScreeningHollywoodEgyptian TheatreThe American Cinematheque's Hollywood Boulevard venue, a 510-seat screen given to retrospectives, double features and conversations with the people who made the films.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · LA’s Rich and Successful Film Festival Shorts ProgramHollywoodEl Capitan TheatreDisney's Hollywood Boulevard movie palace, where current releases and repertory titles are often paired with organ music, stage elements or themed displays.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · CocoMiracle MileFILM at LACMAFilm programming run by the county art museum on Wilshire, where a screening is booked to sit alongside what is currently hanging in the galleries.Next: Sat Oct 17 · 7:00 PM · Film Screening: A Bigger SplashBeverly HillsFine Arts TheatreA 1937 movie theater on Wilshire in Beverly Hills, a block west of the Metro D Line station, running a monthly Sunday series of older features in 70mm.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 7:30 PM · Lawrence of Arabia 70mmGardenaGardena CinemaA South Bay single-screen cinema with a broad program of first-run, repertory and community screenings in a building that has resisted multiplex conversion.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Scary MoviePacific PalisadesGetty Villa Outdoor TheaterGreek and Roman drama has an unusually literal setting at the Getty Villa: an outdoor theater modeled on ancient examples.Next: Sun Oct 25 · 6:30 PM · Halloween at Getty: PREY Screening and DiscussionVirgil VillageHeavy Manners LibraryAn Echo Park art book and zine library that also programs video art and small screenings in an intentionally informal setting.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 12:00 PM · Constant Smiles, Naomi Alligator, Michael VidalHighland ParkHeritage Square MuseumA museum of relocated Victorian buildings that occasionally turns its landscaped grounds into an outdoor movie site.Next: Sat Oct 31 · 11:00 AM · A Hallowe’en Faire at Heritage Square Museum!DTLA: ChinatownHuman ResourcesA Chinatown performance and art space that temporarily transformed itself into a dedicated cinema for a summer-long 2026 screening program.Next: Sat Oct 17 · 5:00 PM · Young Boy Dancing GroupDTLA: Little TokyoJapanese American National MuseumA Little Tokyo museum where documentary and archival screenings are tied to Japanese American history, memory and community programs.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 12:00 PM · Ireicho National Tour—Historic Fort Snelling, MNGlendaleLaemmle GlendaleThe Laemmle cinema in Glendale, on the northwest corner of Maryland and Wilson, booking independent and foreign-language film a block east of Brand.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · The History of ConcreteSanta MonicaLaemmle Monica Film CenterSix screens a few blocks from the Santa Monica beach, open since February 1970, when having more than one film playing at once had to be explained to readers.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · DiggerSanta ClaritaLaemmle NewhallThe Laemmle cinema in Santa Clarita, carrying the chain's independent and subtitled bookings well north of the city proper.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Forgotten IslandNorth HollywoodLaemmle NoHo 7Seven screens on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, two blocks from the Metro station, with stadium-style auditoriums and the box office inside the lobby.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · DiggerWest LALaemmle RoyalThe Laemmle cinema on the north side of Santa Monica Boulevard at Colby, just west of the 405, where the chain's foreign-language releases tend to open.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:15 PM · SéanceEncinoLaemmle Town Center 5Five Laemmle screens downstairs in the Encino Town Center mall, on the south side of Ventura Boulevard, running the chain's subtitled and independent bookings in the Valley.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · The Hollywood RabbiLong BeachLong Beach PlayhouseLong Beach Playhouse keeps two stages busy with plays and musicals, backed by a community company that dates to 1929.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 7:00 PM · Auditions: a Christmas Carol (2026)DTLA: BroadwayLos Angeles TheatreAn ornate 1931 Broadway movie palace that opens only selectively for screenings, tours and special events.Next: Sat Oct 31 · 8:00 PM · The ShiningLos FelizLos Feliz 3The American Cinematheque's Vermont Avenue venue in Los Feliz, a 260-seat neighborhood cinema running repertory bookings, Q&As and double features.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · DOWNBEAT / “Dropping Off”Beverly HillsLumiere Cinema at the Music HallAn independently owned art house on Wilshire in Beverly Hills, running new independent film with co-presented Q&As and an open slot for anyone holding a short under ten minutes.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:30 PM · The 3 Killer PigsDTLA: Bunker HillMOCA Grand AvenueMOCA's downtown museum runs artist-film programs in its auditorium, keeping moving-image work tied directly to contemporary-art exhibitions and curatorial practice.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 11:30 AM · In Session: Sawako GodaMount WilsonMount Wilson ObservatoryA mountain observatory that screens classic science fiction, silent films and family titles in a 256-seat auditorium above Los Angeles.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:30 PM · Public Ticket Night: 60-inch Telescope (October 9)Beverly GroveNew Beverly CinemaA revival house on Beverly Boulevard in a building dating to the 1920s, screening from film prints, with a flat twelve-dollar midnight show on the calendar.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · The Haunting (1963)DTLA: ChinatownNow Instant Image HallA cinema and bookstore on Chung King Road, the pedestrian alley of galleries in Chinatown, where the screening program and the shelves are run as one operation.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 7:00 PM · LARB: SceneWest LANuart TheatreLandmark's first theater acquisition, on Santa Monica Boulevard just west of the 405, where The Rocky Horror Picture Show holds the Saturday midnight slot.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · AtonementEl SegundoOld Town Music HallAn El Segundo classic-film house where silent movies still arrive with live accompaniment on a 1925 Mighty Wurlitzer.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 2:30 PM · DráculaEagle RockOXY ARTSOccidental College's public arts center on York Boulevard, where film appears as part of exhibition, artist and discussion programming.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 7:00 PM · Spirit in the Dark Body: Black Queer Expressions of the Im/materialLos FelizPhilosophical Research SocietyA Los Feliz cultural institution where film clubs and curators use a 1930s esoteric-philosophy campus for repertory and thematic screenings.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Athanasius Kircher: A Walking Cabinet of Curiosities (Magic of Books)San GabrielSan Gabriel Mission PlayhouseA 1927 Mission Revival theater in San Gabriel that occasionally returns to film alongside concerts, dance and stage programming.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 2:00 PM · Theatre Experience of Southern California presents The Music ManHighland ParkScribbleA small DIY space on York Boulevard in Highland Park, holding about a hundred people for whatever its operators decide to put on.Next: Fri Oct 30 · 7:30 PM · FANGS ScreeningSepulveda PassSkirball Cultural CenterThe Skirball uses film as one part of a broader cultural calendar, with documentaries, archival programs and discussions tied to exhibitions and public themes.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 6:00 PM · Bam! 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Intermediate Mah JonggSouth PasadenaSugarMynt GalleryA South Pasadena pop-culture gallery that turns its backyard into a movie site, especially for horror and themed repertory nights.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Backyard Movie Night: The FogHollywoodTCL Chinese Theatre IMAXHollywood's 1927 Chinese Theatre now houses a giant IMAX auditorium while still serving as a premiere site, festival venue and occasional repertory destination.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · BlumFest Presents: Other Mommy Fan Event ScreeningFrogtownThe Elysian TheaterAn independent nonprofit comedy theater in Elysian Valley that says outright it cares more about an artist's process than about a finished show.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 8:00 PM · Channel 101 ScreeningSanta AnaThe Frida CinemaOrange County's nonprofit art house, on Fourth Street in downtown Santa Ana, where a 1963 movie musical and a new Korean monster picture can share the same week.Next: Mon Oct 12 · 10:00 AM · Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!WestwoodThe Landmark WestwoodLandmark's Westwood Village cinema, on Broxton Avenue among the storefronts next to UCLA, with a bar built into the concession counter.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · PrimetimeNewport BeachThe Lido TheaterA restored Newport Beach single-screen movie house dating to 1938, still operating on Via Lido near the harbor.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Margaret Cho - The Choligarchy TourDowntown InglewoodThe Miracle TheaterThe Miracle is Inglewood's independent stage for music, comedy and film, in a restored historic theater downtown.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 7:30 PM · Argentine Film Festival in LAHollywoodThe MontalbánA Hollywood theater on Vine Street that occasionally puts film on its rooftop and main stage alongside live performance.Next: Fri Nov 27 · 8:00 PM · The Residents Eskimo LiveLos FelizThe Pack TheaterA Los Feliz comedy theater running improv, sketch and stand-up six nights a week, with a class list that reaches as far as clowning and voiceover.Next: Thu Nov 12 · 9:00 PM · Pillow Fort Cinema ClubLong BeachThe Queen MaryThe permanently docked ocean liner in Long Beach occasionally hosts film events, using the ship itself as the setting rather than a dedicated cinema.Next: Fri Nov 20 · 4:00 PM · DreamstateWest LAThéâtre Raymond KabbazA West Los Angeles theater at the Lycée Français that regularly presents French-language film alongside music, dance and international performance.Next: Sun Dec 13 · 10:00 AM · Holiday ShowsDTLA: BroadwayUnited Theater on BroadwayA Spanish Gothic Broadway theater, formerly tied to the Ace Hotel, now operating as a major concert and special-event venue with occasional film bookings.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 12:00 PM · Clue & The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Double Feature in honor of Tim CurryUniversity ParkUSC School of Cinematic ArtsUSC's film school on the University Park campus, where the degree programs run from animation to a joint course with the business school, and its theaters are where that work gets shown.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 3:00 AM · AGFA Movie Hooky Club IMAX Matinee Screening: BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER (1981)Eagle RockVidiots at the Eagle TheatreVidiots, a nonprofit whose founding goes back to 1985, programs the Eagle on Eagle Rock Boulevard, often with the writer or director of the film sitting in the audience.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 4:00 PM · 9 to 5Los FelizVista TheatreA single-screen theater where Los Feliz meets East Hollywood, running old prints: a 10am Abbott and Costello matinee one weekend, a 1980 New York thriller at midnight the next.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mmBeverly HillsWallis Annenberg Center for the Performing ArtsA former Beverly Hills post office leads into the Wallis, where dance, plays and concerts share a two-theater complex.Next: Sat Nov 14 · 7:00 PM · Screening: the Importance of Being EarnestCulver CityWende MuseumA Culver City museum and archive whose calendar reaches well past its galleries: works-in-progress showings, writing workshops, a free teen festival, a monthly meditation gathering.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan DouglasEcho ParkWHAMMY! Analog MediaAn Echo Park storefront that sells, buys and digitizes VHS tapes, and also runs as a microcinema, so the screening space and the racks are the same address.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · DARK ROMANCES (1990) w/ special guests! pres. by Culture Shock Releasing