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Two crazy double features in a row.

American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Presents...
Movies on the Big Screen Since 1940!
1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica

Saturday, June 16
7:30 PM POLTERGEIST & CREEPSHOW

Sunday, June 17
5:00 PM TRON & STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

Tron & Wrath of Khan in the same theatre for one ticket, pinch me.

Saturday, May 26 - 7:30 PM

THE CONVERSATION, 1974, American Zoetrope, 113 min. Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. Sandwiched between THE GODFATHER and GODFATHER II, THE CONVERSATION is Coppola at his very best, a sinister, unstoppable portrait of moral (and physical) violence and the sheer paranoia of living in the modern world. Gene Hackman is tremendous as fly-on-the-wall surveillance expert Harry Caul, drawn into a murderous whirlpool when he’s hired to bug lovers Frederic Forrest and Cindy Williams. Co-starring John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Teri Garr and Harrison Ford.

CHINATOWN, 1974, Paramount, 131 min. Dir. Roman Polanski. Jack Nicholson gives his greatest performance as 1930’s private eye J.J. Gittes, maneuvering through a nightmarish L.A. netherworld of cheating husbands, stolen water rights, incest, murder and more, as he desperately tries to save beautiful Faye Dunaway from her raptor-like father John Huston. Writer Robert Towne’s magnificent, labyrinthine script has been widely hailed as the best of the decade.

Friday, May 18 - 7:30 PM

William Friedkin Double Feature:

THE FRENCH CONNECTION, 1971, 20th Century Fox, 104 min. Dir. William Friedkin. Arguably the greatest American crime film ever made: Gene Hackman stars as Detective Popeye Doyle, muscling minor hoods in NYC (the "did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" scene is still a classic) -- when he catches the trail of a huge shipment of French heroin. With partner Roy Scheider, Hackman dogs Marseilles-based drug-kingpin Fernando Rey through New York City’s concrete jungle -- highlighted by a brainjangling car chase that still hasn’t been topped (except perhaps in Friedkin’s own TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.)!

THE BRINKS JOB, 1978, Universal, 104 min. Director William Friedkin followed up THE EXORCIST and SORCERER with this hilarious, yet suspenseful caper film. Shot on location and based on the real-life, $2 million robbery of the Brink’s vault in Boston in 1950, Peter Falk plays Tony Pino the mastermind behind it all. Pino assembles a motley crew of third rate thieves, thugs and misfits to attempt the perfect crime. Featuring some of the 1970's greatest character actors including Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Gena Rowlands, Alan Garfield, Paul Sorvino and Sheldon Leonard as J. Edgar Hoover. Based on the book The Big Stick-Up At Brink's by Noel Behn. NOT ON DVD