Cameron Crowe on his lost Tom Petty film, plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Life was happening too fast and he just wanted more and more and more from it.” Cameron Crowe revisits his Tom Petty ‘Beach Party’ Mike Campbell, left, Stan Lynch and Tom Petty in the documentary “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party.” As part of the rollout for a deluxe edition of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1982 album “Long After Dark,” the Petty Legacy archives are also unveiling the lost film “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party,” which was only aired once, on MTV in February 1983. One of the interviews with Petty takes place in a limousine cruising the streets of Los Angeles and while it is meant as a knowing wink to rock star clichés, there is also a sense of unease about it, as if asking: “Is this really who I am?” Other highlights include concert footage from L.A.’s intimate Whisky a Go Go as well as the massive US Festival, Petty at home with just a guitar talking through his writing process, and a recording session with Stevie Nicks for the hit duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” In a recent interview, Crowe recalled a life-changing moment with Petty on a bus to the video shoot for the song “You Got Lucky.” “He said, ‘Here, I got something I wanna play — you get a camera,’” Crowe told me. Let’s make an experience where you can just feel what it is to be a fan of this band and to be in the band.’ And that was a brilliant note.” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on set during the video shoot for “You Got Lucky.” Petty took a camera crew with him on a tour of Europe, capturing some barn-burning performance footage, evocative moments with the band and one mishap that would actually influence one of the most famous scenes in “This Is Spinal Tap.” After a show in Germany, the Heartbreakers were led to the wrong dressing room backstage and had to find their way to where they were supposed to be. “I think at this point in history, it’s OK to tell tales semi-out-of-school,” said Crowe, “but Robbie Robertson was talking to some people and he’s saying, ‘I did this track with Tom.