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Film Rating: R

Requiem for a Dream (25th Anniversary Restoration Screening)

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

Regression

Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, and David Thewlis star in Oscar-winning director’s Alejandro Amenábar’s (THE SEA INSIDE, THE OTHERS) latest offering, REGRESSION. In this taught psychological thriller, Hawke plays detective Bruce Kenner, tasked with investigating the case of a young woman (Watson) who has accused her father of an unspeakable crime.

Rampage (Uwe Boll in Attendance!)

In this visceral thriller from director Uwe Boll (HEART OF AMERICA, POSTAL), Brendan Fletcher stars as misanthrope Bill Williamson, a man whose boredom with “small town life” is eating him alive. Feeling constrained and claustrophobic in the meaningless drudgery of the everyday and helpless against overwhelming global dissolution, Bill begins

Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’

Romanian writer-director Radu Jude is back with another work of cinematic absurdity – this time, it’s a Dracula film made in Transylvania. What does it contain? A vampire hunt. Zombies and Dracula crashing a strike. A science-fiction story about Vlad the Impaler coming back. An adaptation of the first Romanian vampires

Pulp Fiction (30th Anniversary Screening!)

“Zed’s Dead.” Quentin Tarantino’s endlessly stylish, non-linear and infinitely quotable PULP FICTION is a modern masterpiece, featuring a killer soundtrack and an all-star cast whose characters have become practically ingrained into contemporary culture. I mean, who doesn’t love a Big Kahuna Burger or a $5 milkshake? The film

Promising Young Woman

Take her home and take your chances. Although perhaps best known for her work as an actress, Brit Emerald Fennel (THE CROWN, CALL THE MIDWIFE) made huge waves in 2020 thanks to her #MeToo-inspired feature directorial debut A PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, a razor-sharp and very contemporary revenge thriller

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

If behind every great man is a great woman, then Harvard psychologist and inventor Dr. William Moulton Marston has the good fortune of having two — his wife Elizabeth and their mutual lover Olive Byrne. In addition to helping him perfect the lie detector test, the two women also inspire

Predator

Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before. It came for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man to hunt. Get to the choppah.. ! For an encore screening of one of the 80s’ biggest sci-fi action-horror-thrillers

POSTPONED: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Dearest Rio Friends & Movie-Lovers: As per the government’s latest directive on November 23, 2020, we will be suspending operations until December 8, 2020 (barring any further changes). Screenings will be re-scheduled, and ticket-holders will be contacted shortly. In the meantime, we thank-you for your endless generosity and

POSTPONED: On the Rocks

Dearest Rio Friends & Movie-Lovers: As per the government’s latest directive on November 23, 2020, we will be suspending operations until December 8, 2020 (barring any further changes). Screenings will be re-scheduled, and ticket-holders will be contacted shortly. In the meantime, we thank-you for your endless generosity and

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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