Single screen, 1927
The picture is still the picture.
The Aurelia has run one film at a time, on one screen, since 1927 — through a 1974 closure, a 2013 reopening, and every format the industry has thrown at a projection booth since. We show what deserves a dark room and a crowd.
Upcoming screenings
Saturday, 29 August| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Sun · 4:00, live piano accompaniment | 35mm |
| Sunset Boulevard | Fri · 7:00 & 9:15 | 35mm |
| Some Like It Hot | Fri · 7:30 | 35mm |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | Sat · 9:45, late show | 35mm |
| Lawrence of Arabia | Sun 18 Oct · 1:00, one performance only | 70mm |
| The Third Man | Fri · 7:00 & 9:00 | 35mm |
Every ratio below is a real theatrical standard, not a rounded approximation — and every one of them is a print we are actually showing. Pick a ratio and you get the film from this season's programme that was shot in it, masked to the screen exactly as it will be projected. The dimmed area is screen we simply do not use that night.
Type a title and see it laid out exactly as our front-of-house crew would set it: three channels, 22 monospaced characters each — the real surviving letter track behind our facade, not a rounder, easier number.
Founders' Fridays, Silent Sundays, Deco Late Nights, and the occasional Roadshow Revival when a print worth the trouble becomes available.
Roadshow Revivals
Lawrence of Arabia
A genuine 70mm Super Panavision print, on loan for one performance only — the format this film was actually built for, not a digital…
Deco Late Nights
Once Upon a Time in the West
Sergio Leone's widest, slowest, most patient western — shot for a frame almost two and a half times wider than it is tall.
Founders' Fridays
Some Like It Hot
Two musicians on the run from the mob, a ukulele, and the best reason ever filmed to join an all-female band.
Founders' Fridays
Sunset Boulevard
A washed-up silent star, a hack screenwriter, and a house on Sunset Boulevard that has not updated its idea of what year it is.
Silent Sundays
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
German Expressionist horror on a painted, tilted set — one of the reasons the phrase "German Expressionist" gets used about anything crooked ever since.
A single screen, one owner-operator family, and a 1974 closure the building never fully recovered from until 2013.
Read the full history
Three tiers, one non-negotiable rule: members never lose a seat to a sold-out house.
Friend
$60 / year
- Priority booking 48 hours early
- Printed seasonal programme, posted to you
- 10% at the concession counter
Patron
$180 / year
- Everything in Friend
- One guest ticket per month
- Your name in the printed programme
- Invited to the annual print-inspection evening
Founder
$600 / year
- Everything in Patron
- A reserved seat, same seat, every screening
- Propose one title per season