This Independent Week

Cinema 21
616 N.W. 21st Ave.
503-223-4515

“The Passenger” 7, 9:30 p.m. nightly. 1:30, 4:00 p.m. Sat-Sun.

Jack Nicholson stars as a television journalist who trades in an identity that no longer suits him to find a world of mystery and intrigue in Barcelona. The director’s cut of this 1975 masterpiece is shown with 6 minutes of additional footage and slight changes in pacing.

Cinemagic
2021 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.
503-231-7919

“Capote” Call for movie times

In this biopic, Phillip Seymour Hoffman makes a star turn as Truman Capote as the brilliant writer investigates the grizzly murder that became the basis of his stunning book “In Cold Blood.” While the film tries desperately to do the source material justice, Capote himself is too cold a character to be loveable and too odd a man to be explained. With a tiresome pace and no answer to the eternal question of whether Capote did fall in love with his subject, it’s a wonder that the film decided to turn biopic instead of becoming yet another film adaptation of Capote’s book. The scenes of carnage pulled from the book are the most affecting of the film.

Clinton St. Theater
2522 S.E. Clinton St.
503-238-8899

KUNG FU IS AWESOME

Forget stuffing a bird and watching grandma pass out, go watch badass kung fu masters kick the stuffing out of thousands of dudes until you pass out. How could a Thanksgiving celebration get any better? With beer! Dude. Sweet.

“Third Annual Thanksgiving Kung Fu Marathon” Noon-Midnight, Thursday.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” 12 a.m. Saturday

Guild Theater
829 S.W. Taylor St.
503-221-1156

Noir Nights

Spend Thanksgiving at the Clinton watching a dazzling array of ass-kicking thump and wake up the next afternoon and stumble into the darkened nights of film noir courtesy of the Northwest Film Center.

Double feature: “The Dark Past” 7 p.m., “City of Fear” 8:30 p.m., Nov. 25-26

Moreland Theater
6712 S.E. Milwaukie Ave.
503-236-5257

“Walk the Line” 5:30, 8:10 p.m. Nightly

Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix try their best as June Carter Cash and the Man in Black. The film is touted as having “Oscar written all over it,” which from past experience means that it’ll be at the least disappointing spectacle and at best the spectacle you expected.