Movies
Country: Italy
The Night Porter: Italian Nights
We couldn’t think of a better way to mark Italian Day on The Drive 2015than with a film festival showcasing some of our favourite Italian films! Join us at the Rio for four nights dedicated to a fantastic selection of classics, including Federico Fellini’s LA DOLCE VITA (1960) and
The Music of Silence
As part of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver and in celebration of Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 10), the Rio Theatre is programming screenings of select Italian titles in June, including director Michael Radford‘s (IL POSTINO) engaging dramatization of the life of one of
The Last Emperor
We are tipping our hat to an undisputed icon of Italian cinema, the controversial late auteur Bernardo Bertolucci, with a screening of his lush, challenging, multilayered epic period drama THE LAST EMPEROR – a film that won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated. The
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Italian Nights
We couldn’t think of a better way to mark Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 14) than with a film festival showcasing some of our favourite Italian films. Join us at the Rio for four nights dedicated to a fantastic selection of classic films spanning decades and genres. Special
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (4K Restoration)
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef star in Sergio Leone’s masterpiece, a “spaghetti Western” that is generally considered to be the most influential (if not thoroughly entertaining!) in the genre. Set in a mythologized “old West” during the Civil War, the film follows Joe (Eastwood) and a Mexican
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: Krull (1983)
Come celebrate five glorious years of The Gentlemen Hecklers (aka your friendly local comedy trio who recently contributed some killer jokes for the latest season of Mystery Science Theater 3000) at the Rio Theatre with a very special anniversary screening of KRULL, a perfectly cheesy slice of 80’s sci-fi fantasy.
The Gentlemen Hecklers Present STARCRASH
This ain’t STAR WARS. Let The Gentlemen Hecklers guide you through director Luigi Cozzi’s 70s sci-fi extravaganza, “a galactic adventure beyond your wildest dreams.” Christopher Plummer (no judgement) stars in this remarkable tale of an outlaw smuggler and her alien companion who are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
The Rio Theatre is excited to head into our third annual cinematic celebration of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver with a Friday Late Night Movie screening of horror maestro Dario Argento‘s debut feature (and first foray into the stylish genre known throughout the world as “giallo”), the landmark 1970 film,
The Bicycle Thief
We couldn’t think of a better way to mark Italian Day on the Drive than with a film festival showcasing some of our favourite Italian films. Join us at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, June 8 for a full day of film screenings dedicated to a fantastic selection of classic
The Beyond: The Composer’s Cut (2022 Restoration)
Don’t go in unless you’re ready to die! From legendary Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS) comes the ultimate classic of supernatural terror, THE BEYOND. Inspired from the work of H.P. Lovecraft, Fulci’s gory and surreal “Italian Gothique” masterpiece is the epitome of the “cosmic horror”