IN THEATRES...
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Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, having found a new muse in Greta Gerwig, strikes out anew.
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Gimme the Loot, street-level cinema verite following two graffiti artists preparing for a big tag.
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The Great Gatsby in 3D has two-wasted dimensions. Shtick and spectacle from Baz Luhrmann.
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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.
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The Purge, Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey in a tense little thriller with inklings of political allegory.
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Sightseers, the new film from Ben Wheatley, a rebel in search of applause. Take a tour of misanthropy.
My
Oregonian columns:
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May 3: the food documentary
The Food Hunters, Harold Lloyd's classic
Safety Last! newly restored, and the 18th-annual HP Lovecraft Film Festival.
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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.
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May 17: a rare noir
Fallguy; Luis Bunuel directs Catherine Deneuve in
Tristana; and Guy Pearce sends
33 Postcards
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May 23: Douglas Fairbanks as
The Thief of Bagdad; Paul McCartney gives us a Wings
Rockshow; the Experimental Film Festival 2013.
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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.
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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...
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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, a 1973 disjointed road-trip romance from Alan J. Pakula.
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Save the Date, a wedding-centric sorta rom-com with Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan, co-written and featuring artwork by cartoonist Jeffrey Brown.
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Wake of the Red Witch, a seafaring, bodice-ripping potboiler with John Wayne.
