FIVE EASY PIECES | Hollywood Films of the 1970s Film + Discussion Series

Name: FIVE EASY PIECES | Hollywood Films of the 1970s Film + Discussion Series
Start: 2025-08-13T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-13T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117

Schedule

Wed Aug 13 2025 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117 | Richmond Heights, MO

We’re excited to team up with our friends at St. Louis Oasis for a special summer matinee film and discussion series: Hollywood Films of the 1970s. Spanning the transformative years from 1967 to 1980, this series highlights a groundbreaking era in American cinema.
2:00PM: FILM + LECTURE: An in-depth discussion led by Cliff Froehlich, retired executive director of Cinema St. Louis and former Riverfront Times film critic follows the screening
7:00PM: ENCORE: Introduced by Cliff Froehlich, without lecture.
Bob Rafelson, 1970
Jack Nicholson, after a decade of scuffling on the fringes of Hollywood, first broke through in 1969 with a memorable supporting role in Easy Rider, but his career-defining performance as Bobby Dupea in 1970’s Five Easy Pieces established him as a major star, earning him the first of his eight Oscar nominations as Best Actor. A roughneck working in the oil fields of Kern County, Calif., Bobby keeps his former life as a piano prodigy hidden, but a series of upheavals sends him on a road trip to his Pacific Northwest home, where his brother and sister, both classical musicians, reside with his ailing but still-intimidating father. Bobby has grudgingly brought pregnant girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black), a would-be country singer, along for the ride, but when he becomes involved with a musician (Susan Anspach) studying with his brother, long-simmering tensions are brought to a full boil.