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Chinese Film Week: Beyond The Clouds

Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Sunday, September 15 BEYOND THE CLOUDS(我本是高山) Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:30 pm*Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Chinese Film Week: I Am What I Am

Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Sunday, September 15 “I AM WHAT I AM”(雄狮少年) Doors 10:00 am | Movie 10:30 am  *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on

Chinese Film Week: Lighting Up The Stars

Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Friday, September 13 LIGHTING UP THE STARS (人生大事) Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:30 pm*Start time subject to change. Please arrive

Chinese Film Week: B For Busy

Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Friday, September 13 B FOR BUSY (爱情神话) Doors 10:00 am | Movie 10:30 am*Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Machotaildrop (15th Anniversary Screening)

In collaboration with the Rio Theatre, Antisocial AV CLUB present to you a curated night of skateboard films that you may or may not have heard of before… Join us as we dive into the skateboard archive for the 15th anniversary screening of Alex Craig and Corey Adams’ epic

Cannibal Holocaust

The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 30 with one of the aii-time classic grindhouse films ever made, Ruggero Deodato’s exploitation staple CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. Since its release in 1980, the film has been both banned and heavily censored throughout the world; decades after its

Grey Gardens (50th Anniversary Screening)

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother (Edith Bouvier Beale) and daughter (Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale), high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of the Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo

The 4:30 Movie (With Kevin Smith LIVE Q&A)

The Rio Theatre is excited to welcome back our old friend / “Patron Saint,” filmmaker Kevin Smith, for the Canadian Premiere of his 16th feature film, THE 4:30 MOVIE. Following the screening, Kevin will be joining us on stage to talk about the film for a conversation and Q&A session.

The Blues Under the Skin (New Restoration!)

In the early 1970s, during a resurgence of interest in the Delta blues, music documentarian Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture on film the remnants of the authentic American blues. Traveling throughout the deep South, Manthoulis filmed candid interviews and intimate performances by such legends B.B.

Oddity

In this new supernatural spectacle from CAVEAT’s Damian McCarthy, a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin. When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from

About The Rio

Voted the #1 Independent Theatre in Vancouver, the Rio Theatre is a multimedia venue featuring arthouse, mainstream and cult-classic cinemas as well as live entertainment. Built in 1938, the Rio has been fully restored with a state of the art digital projector, surround sound, a huge stage and 420 luxurious seats.

1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC

Phone: 604.879.3456

Info Line: 604.878.3456

Email: info@riotheatre.ca

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