Current Mailing List news and information update: "5 Easy Pieces" Final Show Tonight!   FINAL SCREENING TONIGHT. FIVE EASY PIECES Restored Print Showtime: Monday, July 26 - 7 PM. No Thursday Show! 1970 Bob Rafelson. Jack Nicholson, Karen Black. 98 m. Technicolor. "In one of his finest performances in a run that established him as one of the great film stars of his generation, Nicholson plays Bobby Dupea, an angry young man working in the oilfields of Southern California. Bobby lives a white trash life with his sweet but dim girlfriend Rayette (Black), and goes boozing with his buddies. But he is escaping from his upper-class, musically talented family and he is forced into a painful reunion with them when his father suffers a near-fatal stroke. Blending the road movie with social critique, the film offers a brutally enlightening picture of America during the Vietnam era. Bobby is the embodiment of the time and the country - part drifter, part redneck, part patrician. The split between Bobby's upbringing and his adult life is expressed in the film's soundtrack, which is divided roughly half and half between classical piano pieces and the country songs of Tammy Wynette, beloved of Rayette. It is an urgent, funny, bleak film with Nicholson electric in the lead, relishing the surreal scene in which he plays a piano on the back of a truck in the midst of a traffic jam, and the famous chicken salad sandwich set-piece in the roadside diner". (Channel 4)