Tickets can be purchased here.
Movie Palace/Million Dollar Theater details the screening below:
Part of our MOVIE PALACE DOUBLE DOSE CLASSICS series. Sunday, February 23, 2020 @ 7p, The historic Million Dollar Theatre, 307 S Broadway, LA, CA 90013: HOUSE (1977, Janus, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, 88mns, 35mm)
*SPECIAL NOTE: This plays on a double bill with Akira Kurosawa’s RED BEARD which screens the same day, Sun 2/23/20 @ 2pm on 35mm. Double Feature passes are available if you want to see both. There will be a 1hr 15mn break in between movies for folks to walk next door to the Grand Central Market. Folks will be able to bring food and drink back from the Market into the theater!
We also offer a special ticket that includes an all-day $6 parking voucher at the Grand Central Market parking lot (308 South Hill Street, LA, CA 90013). We will give these special ticket holders their parking validation voucher at the screenings.
*Special Note: Across 2020, we’re committed to showing classics on 35mm at one of the historic movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles along Broadway. These beautiful 1000 to 2000 seat theatres built in the 1920’s still retain their original architecture, design, and grandeur. The experience of watching a classic epic in these movie palaces is unlike anything you’ve experienced. It’s like going to the opera but for movies! We’re showing all movies in this series on film. Join us and bring the family for a one of a kind way to experience classics the way they were meant to be screened. In grandeur!
*Series & Season Passes: If you have an All-Access Winter 2020 Season Pass, a Sunrise Winter
2020 Pass, or an Epic Sundays Movie Palace series pass, you have access to this movie!
Nothing can quite prepare you for the experience of watching Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 Japanese pop music coming of age avant garde wildly stylistic Japanese horror movie.
Seemingly committed to exploding any expectation you might have for the movie, Obayashi constantly throws in scenes that have you slapping your head. Animated sequences, incredible roto-scope sequences, a rock and roll music video, a scene where someone gets eaten by a piano(!!), House ends up being a deliriously wonderful movie about the capabilities of cinema itself.
The story, despite this description, is actually fairly easy to follow. A group of female friends in their teens go to visit a mysterious Aunt at her house in the Japanese countryside. Once they get into the house, they discover the Aunt is a demon who has lured them there to kill them off one by one, ingest their essences, so she can be young again.
But even though this is the story, the movie really becomes about a filmmaker so fascinated by the filmmaking process that he takes what could have been a standard throwaway teen horror movie and turns it into one of the most bold, hilarious, great stylistic experimentations in all of cinema.
Not to get too heady or high-minded here, but one could argue that House is as inventive, visionary, and inspiring in its crazy way as Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane was to a whole generation of moviemakers.
So come join us for an incredible cinematic experience you will never forget. In a movie palace! With a great audience.
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