HANG ON TO YOURSELF

NOW IN THEATERS...

It's an Academy Awards bonanza.

* Animated and Live-Action ShortsCatch all the nominated short films in a limited program.

Leviathanthe Russian entry in the Best Foreign Language category shows why it's a front runner.

Still Alice earned Julianne Moore a Best Actress nod, but offers little else worth noting.

Portlanders also might head out to see the French animated film The King and the Mockingbird, newly restored after a long journey that started in the 1950s. Or you might settle in for the challenge of Lars von Trier's Dogville.

WATCH IT AT HOME...

The Bride Wore BlackFrancois Truffaut's tribute to Hitchcock, featuring Jeanne Moreau as a woman bent on revenge. Now on Blu-ray.

Port of Flowers/The Living Magoroku, the first two films of Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita, as included in Criterion's Eclipse 41: Kinoshita and World War II.

MISSED IT...

Links I didn't post last week.

Sit Stay Ride: The Story of America's Sidecar Dogsa documentary with a self-explanatory title. Available digitally.

Two music documentaries: one about Portland's the Prids, the other about the San Diego music scene of the 1980s/90s.

Current Soundtrack: The Beatles, Live at the BBC