Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue,
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Events at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica

Steve Railsback & Richard Rush In Person!
THE STUNT MAN
Thu, Aug 16, 2018 • 7:30pm

Steve Railsback plays an escaped convict who stumbles onto a film set and accidentally kills a stunt man; Peter O’Toole is the enigmatic, god-like director who offers to hide him from the police if he will replace the stunt man and help finish the film. Discussion following with actor Steve Railsback and director Richard Rush.


AUDACIOUS DEBUTS
Double Feature!
THX 1138 / DUEL
Fri, Aug 17, 2018 • 7:30pm

Two Audacious Debuts! George Lucas' THX 1138 envisions a bleak, dehumanized future where every person is given pills to quiet emotions and prevent the questioning of authority. In Steven Spielberg’s DUEL, Dennis Weaver is a businessman crossing a stretch of deserted highway, who finds himself terrorized by a malevolent, unseen truck driver.


PLAYTIME
Sat, Aug 18, 2018 • 7:30pm

In Jacques Tati's comedy classic, Monsieur Hulot is on his way to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets caught in a tourist invasion and roams around the city with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.


THE DEER HUNTER
Sun, Aug 19, 2018 • 7:30pm

A sprawling, ambitious epic of men wounded by pride, country and friendship, Michael Cimino's Vietnam War masterwork stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage and John Cazale,


THE ICONOGRAPHY OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY
NOSTALGHIA
Thu, Aug 23, 2018 • 7:30pm

In director Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film outside the Soviet Union, Russian writer Oleg Yankovsky travels to Italy to research an 18th-century composer and is stricken with homesickness, until he meets eccentric Erland Josephson, who challenges him to save the world.


THE ICONOGRAPHY OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Los Angeles Premiere of New Restoration!
ANDREI RUBLEV
Fri, Aug 24, 2018 • 7:30pm

Los Angeles Premiere of New Restoration! This masterpiece from Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky is Inspired by the life and works of 15th-century poet and icon painter Andrei Rublev, and frames an exploration of the role of a creator in society in a religious setting: An artist is only a servant offering his talent to his community and to God.