It’s not where you go. It’s what you leave behind…. Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 FEET FROM
“The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty.” Join us at the Rio Theatre for another lazy, hazy, Crazy-for-Swayze kinda night, featuring two classic titles starring the inimitable Patrick Swayze: Starting with a DIRTY DANCING featuring the release of author, ANDREA WARNER‘s new book The Time of My Life, then it’s
How much of your own life are you willing to risk? Laura Poitras, Academy Award winning director of CITIZENFOUR, returns with her most personal and intimate film to date. Filmed over six years, RISK is a complex and volatile character study that collides with a high stakes election year and
The Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with a 40th Anniversary screening of director Joe Dante‘s “biting’ satire on werewolf movies, THE HOWLING. Dee Wallace (E.T.) stars as Karen White, a LA news anchor with a serial killer for a stalker, leads the man into a trap
The Rio Grind Film Festival‘s Rio Grind Film Festival presents an encore showing of prolific Oklahoma writer-director Mickey Reece’s latest, AGNES, which has also screened at the New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in Austin. If you’re not familiar with the work of this emerging, “outsider” filmmaker, Reece
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, November 25 for the Vancouver Premiere of writer-director Gigi Saul Guerrero‘s latest feature film, BINGO HELL. This FREE (yes, you read that right) screening will be kicking off this year’s Rio Grind Film Fest. Filmmakers in attendance for Q&A, and more! RSVPing
Seven total strangers team up for the perfect crime. They don’t know each other’s name… But they’ve got each other’s colour. We’re dimming the lights, firing up the projector, and raising a glass (or two) to the late, great Michael
Darren Aronofsky‘s hyperstylish REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is a lucid and devastating fever dream of a film, with a deliberately frenzied and kinetic pace that draws its audience down the very spirals experienced by the protagonists’ own horrific descent into addictive behaviours. Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of human beings longing
In the year 2056 – the not so distant future – an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous
After losing his job and his girl, LA punk Otto is employed to repossess cars. Not only does he have to tangle with their irate owners, but he finds himself in the midst of a strange and crazy world. A very weird and wonderful debut feature from Alex Cox with