This Independent Week

CINEMA 21

616 N.W. 21st Ave.

503-223-4515

“Spike & Mike’s Twisted Festival of Animation” 7, 9:15 p.m. nightly, 11:30 p.m. Fri. and Sat.

Twisted animated shorts. Sounds like a painful wedgie.

CINEMAGIC

2021 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.

503-231-7919

“Capote” 5:30, 7:40 p.m. nightly, 9:50 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 3:20 p.m. Sun.

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives his most eccentric and brilliant performance in this suspenseful film documenting the author’s life while writing “In Cold Blood.”

“There is not a word or a sentence or a concept that you can illuminate for me.”

CLINTON ST. THEATER

2522 S.E. Clinton St.

503-238-8899

“Film Geek” 7, 9 p.m. nightly, 5 p.m. Sat. and Sun. through Jan. 26

You don’t have to rely on a personal friendship with Quentin Tarantino to acquaint yourself with a socially inept video store clerk with an encyclopedic knowledge of film.

GUILD THEATER

829 S.W. Taylor St.

503-221-1156

“Awake Zion” with “West Bank Story” 7 p.m. Wed., Jan. 25

“Awake Zion” film connects the cultural dots between Judaism and reggae in 60 minutes. “West Bank” is a Palestinian take on the musical “West Side Story.”

“Press On” followed by “In the Edges: The Grizzly Sessions” 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 28

Learn about the popularization of the steel guitar, then get grizzly wit’ it.

“Put a Needle on the Record” 9:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 28, 7 p.m. Sun., Jan. 29

For all the DJ Unknowns and the friends who let them spin. 

MORELAND THEATER

6712 S.E. Milwaukie Ave.

503-236-5257

“Syriana” 5:30, 8:10 p.m. Mon. ?” Thu. 3, 5:30, 8:10 p.m. Sat. ?” Sun.

George Clooney is in it, so the deep cultural significance is inherent.