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1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica
323-466-3456

Photo: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times

The historic Santa Monica theater built by aviation pioneer Donald Douglas as a perk for his workers has been renovated by the nonprofit American Cinematheque, which owns the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The Aero continues to operate as one of the few remaining single-screen venues in Southern California offering vintage films and special screenings.

Upgrades include improvements to the projection and sound systems and a new concession stand.

The theater's capacity was reduced by 33% to about 400 seats from 600 and the front of the English Tudor-style building with its sidewalk box office and neon marquee were preserved.

The theater, built in 1939 by the founder of Douglas Aircraft Co., screened movies around the clock so employees at his airplane production plant in Santa Monica could catch a movie after work, even if they had to work the graveyard shift.

Current, Upcoming

Croatian Film Today

Through May. 18
Three-day series (May 16-18) includes screenings of The Living and the Dead (2007) with director Kristijan Milic in attendance (May 16).

Heaven's Gate (1980)

May. 22
Film critic Kevin Thomas introduces this screening of Michael Cimino's controversial western.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

May. 23
Stanley Kubrick classic stars Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. Based on the short story "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

May. 24
Francis Ford Coppola's surrealist Vietnam film stars Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall.

Playtime (1967)

May. 25
Fully restored Jacques Tati film about an American lost in a maze of Modern architecture in Paris.

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965)

May. 29
Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morely and Terry-Thomas star.

Patton (1970)

May. 30
Best Picture and Best Actor (George C. Scott) went to this epic story of the World War II general George S. Patton Jr.