Part of Mission Creek Festival. Stick around for post-show happy hour ($3 premium beer and wine) and music from DJ Gordon Gartrell, spinning 50s and 60s rock.

DIALOGUE: Author Tim Kinsella will read from his new book Let Go and Go On and On, the story of obscure actress Laurie Bird, who stars in TLB. Post-screening discussion with Kinsella and Jacob Knabb, senior editor of Curbside Splendor Publishing.

Drag racing east from Los Angeles in a souped-up ’55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer-songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates’s Pontiac GTO–driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race. The prize: their cars' pink slips. But no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made. (Criterion Collection).