(Walter Hill, US 1978, 90 min.)

then at 8:45 p.m. VANISHING POINT

(Richard Sarafian, US 1971, 107 min.)

In The Driver, an homage to film noir and the heist thrillers of Jean-Pierre Melville, Ryan O’Neal stars as a supercool getaway driver who seeks help from Isabelle Adjani while playing cat-and-mouse with determined cop Bruce Dern. Then, in the existential Vanishing Point, Barry Newman stars as a society dropout driving from Denver to San Francisco at such high speeds that police in three states become obsessed with capturing him. The camera work and driving stunts in both of these films will take your breath away. Two films for one admission price.