Double Feature

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Sam Peckinpah’s final western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, is a counterculture masterpiece, a beautiful, ambitious and melancholy tale offriendship and betrayal with Kris Kristofferson as the legendary outlaw and James Coburn as the gunman-turned-sheriff hired to track down his former friend. Featuring an amazing cast of character actors, poetic photography and a Grammy-nominated acoustic Bob Dylan soundtrack, the film remains a haunting elegy to the Old West. Presented in its 106 minute original theatrical release version

“Like Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, it both records and condemns the passage of time and the advent of progress; and there is a sombre, mournful quality which places [Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid] very high up in the league of great westerns.” – Time Out

Cisco Pike

Just released from prison for drug-dealing, Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson) dreams of making a comeback. A once-famous rock singer, he finds his music contacts are more interested in his dope connections than his new songs. Pike’s plans to go straight, however, go somewhat awry when he’s blackmailed by a crooked narc (Gene Hackman) into selling $10,000 worth of stolen marijuana. Forced back into a business he thought he was out of, Pike drops in on friends, groupies and musicians as he tries to move a 100 kilo stash in just 53 hours. Co-starring Karen Black, Harry Dean Stanton, Doug Sahm, Joy Bang and Warhol superstar Viva!, Cisco Pike is a revealing look at the LA music scene of the early ’70s, off-beat, unique and “surprisingly good. ***” (Leonard Maltin). (Sony Pictures)