CRITICS’PICKS

In his inimitable prosaic-lyrical style, Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young skateboarder who accidentally gets involved in a gruesome death. Dreamy and elliptical and free of the bombast and posturing that characterize films about death and youth respectively, “Paranoid Park” is a lethal haiku of a movie, gorgeous and devastating. On Saturday, the American Cinematheque presents a 10th anniversary screening of the Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Need to catch up on your quotable lines? Here’s one to get you started: “What do you do for recreation?” “Oh, the usual. I bowl, drive around, the occasional acid flashback.”