The Big Screen

Last week, Jan. 1

“Yosemite”; “The Hateful Eight”

This week, Jan. 8

“The Forest” (Gramercy Pictures), PG-13, 95 minutes

About — An unexplained horror occurs in a Japanese forest; Stars — Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Eoin Macken; Director — Jason Zada

“Anesthesia” (IFC Films), R, 90 minutes

About — Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor; Stars — David Aaron Baker, Derrick Baskin, Jacqueline Baum, Ana Marie Calise; Director — Tim Blake Nelson

“The Revenant” (20th Century Fox), R, 156 minutes

About — In the 1920s, a frontiersman sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling; Stars — Tom Hardy, Leonardo DiCaprio, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter; Director — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Anomalisa” (Paramount Pictures), R, 90 minutes

About — A man crippled by the mundanity of his life goes through an experience quite out of the ordinary; Stars — David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan; Director — Duke Johnson/Charlie Kaufman

Next week, Jan. 15

“Ride Along 2”; “Norm of the North”; “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”

Home rentals

The latest top 10 digital movie purchases/rentals based on transaction rate, by Rentrak:

1. “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials”

2. “Elf”

3. “Man From U.N.C.L.E.”

4. “American Ultra”

5. “Inside Out”

6. “Vacation” (2015)

7. “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”

8. “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation”

9. “Terminator Genisys”

10. “Home Alone”

Other recent favorites: “The Age of Adaline”; “Ricki and the Flash”; “Spy”; “San Andreas”

Doc spotlight

Reel Music Festival 33

The Northwest Film Center will present its annual celebration of sound, music and image and jazz, blues, soul, opera, classical, avant-garde and every musical genre in between. It starts Jan. 15 with “The Big Beat: Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock and Roll” and “Roxy: The Movie” and continues through Feb. 5 (we’ll run the full lineup next week). Screenings will be at the Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 S.W. Park Ave. ($9, $8 students/seniors, $6 children, www.nwfilm.org).

Upcoming events

• The Northwest Film Center presents a cool film festival coming up — “From Bombay to Bollywood: 50 Years of Indian Cinema,” Jan. 9-March 12. It’ll feature many offerings from India’s film industry, which has movies, stars and songs enjoyed by millions around the world, but which are largely unknown in the West. There is a difference between Bollywood and Indian cinema, the folks at Northwest Film Center point out — Bollywood refers to Hindi cinema of Mumbai, and Indian cinema is more than the “song and a wedding fare” referenced in Western pop culture. Indian cinema blends traditions of musical storytelling and popular myth with dozens of different genres. The film festival begins with “Awaara,” at noon Saturday, Jan. 9. The rest of the lineup: “Pyaasa,” 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10; “Mother India,” 1 p.m. Jan. 16; “Charulata,” 2 p.m. Jan. 17; “Sholay,” 3 p.m. Jan. 24; “Salaam Bombay!,” 4 p.m. Jan. 31; “Satya,” 6 p.m. Feb. 6; “Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,” 6 p.m. Feb. 7; “Devdas,” 3 p.m. March 6; “Lagaan,” 2 p.m. March 12. Screenings will be at Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 S.W. Park Ave. ($9, $8 students/seniors, $6 children, www.nwfilm.org).

• Beginning their careers in the Northwest and expanding to New York, Toronto and Miami, filmmakers Austin Will, Sam Kuhn and Fantavious Fritz, from a collective known as Lion Attack Motion Pictures, will bring some of their movies back to their home state of Oregon. The program includes: “Paradise Falls,” a tale of two boys’ adventures in an abandoned suburban mansion; “In Search of the Miraculous,” an homage to the enigmatic Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader; “Long Way Gone,” a portrait following a lost soul navigating ghostly landscapes in search of shelter from a vicious storm. Screenings will be at Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 S.W. Park Ave. ($9, $8 students/seniors, $6 children, www.nwfilm.org).