* Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, having found a new muse in Greta Gerwig, strikes out anew.
* Gimme the Loot, street-level cinema verite following two graffiti artists preparing for a big tag.
* The Great Gatsby in 3D has two-wasted dimensions. Shtick and spectacle from Baz Luhrmann.
* The Iceman, a biopic about one of America's most notorious contract killers. Michael Shannon lends the role intensity, but the script only touches the material gingerly.
* The Purge, Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey in a tense little thriller with inklings of political allegory.
My Oregonian columns:
* May 3: the food documentary The Food Hunters, Harold Lloyd's classic Safety Last! newly restored, and the 18th-annual HP Lovecraft Film Festival.
* May 10: a two-week film noir festival at Cinema 21; Rock Hudson starring in John Frankenheimer's whacky psych-out Seconds, and the political/social documentary The Mosque in Morgantown.
* May 17: a rare noir Fallguy; Luis Bunuel directs Catherine Deneuve in Tristana; and Guy Pearce sends 33 Postcards
* May 23: Douglas Fairbanks as The Thief of Bagdad; Paul McCartney gives us a Wings Rockshow; the Experimental Film Festival 2013.
* May 30: Take a visit to Skull World; look at the making of two different forms of art with Becoming Traviata and Bel Borba Aqui; get gay married for a greencard in I Do.
* June 7: underground crime fiction by way of Flamingos; the activist-focused environmental documentary Elemental; and Stress Position, an agitprop art school prank.
ON BD/DVD...
* Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, a 1973 disjointed road-trip romance from Alan J. Pakula.
* Save the Date, a wedding-centric sorta rom-com with Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan, co-written and featuring artwork by cartoonist Jeffrey Brown.
* Wake of the Red Witch, a seafaring, bodice-ripping potboiler with John Wayne.
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