Movies
Film Rating: R
It Follows
The deft hand director David Robert Mitchell used in his remarkable coming-of-age tale THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SLEEPOVER is at work again in IT FOLLOWS, a smart and quietly terrifying work of indie art-house horror that has managed to assert itself as a cult-classic, and certainly one of the
Down By Law
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 29 with Jim Jarmusch‘s moody, atmospheric, and darkly funny cult-classic DOWN BY LAW (starring the near-perfect trio of Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, and John Lurie). When fate brings together three hapless men—an unemployed disc jockey (Waits), a
CineFest LIVE: Ai Weiwei: NEVER SORRY and THE FAKE CASE
The Vancouver Biennale is pleased to present the Ai Weiwei Cinefest Retrospective, a film series celebrating the world renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Join us at the Rio Theatre for the documentaries NEVER SORRY and THE FAKE CASE on Monday, April 13, AI WEWEI’S APPEAL on Monday, April 20 and
A Scanner Darkly
Visionary writer-director Richard Linklater (DAZED AND CONFUSED, BOYHOOD) dove head first into A SCANNER DARKLY’s visually stylized adaptation of author Philip K. Dick’s novel of the same name, which tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of
Event Horizon
Join us for Friday Late Night Movie EVENT HORIZON, director Paul Anderson’s (MORTAL KOMBAT, RESIDENT EVIL) a sci-fi horror story about a rescue crew investigating a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole that’s now returned…with someone or something new on-board on April 17. Starring Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen
Birdman
Oscar award winning film Birdman comes to the Rio. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu starring Michael Keaton. A washed-up actor, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of his Broadway play. Saturday March
Inherent Vice
Set in the drug-fueled haze of 1970s Los Angeles, Paul Thomas Anderson‘s (BOOGIE NIGHTS, THERE WILL BE BLOOD) adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s acclaimed fever dream of a novel INHERENT VICE stars Joaquin Phoenix as detective Larry “Doc” Sportello, who is investigating the disappearance of a former girlfriend. Also starring Josh
NAKED LUNCH (William S. Burroughs Double Bill)
Join us for an evening celebrating influential beat generation author William S. Burroughs, featuring the recently remastered re-release of Howard Brookner’s seminal, gritty documentary BURROUGHS: THE MOVIE (1983) and David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Burroughs’ own NAKED LUNCH (1991). Saturday, April 4 BURROUGHS: THE MOVIE (90 mins) Doors 7:00
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
What would Brian Boitano do? The creators of SOUTH PARK (Matt Stone, Trey Parker) scored a surprising hat-trick with the feature-length version of their hugely popular animated TV series: It was a box office hit, the critics loved it, and they scored much-deserved Best Original Song Oscar nod for ‘Blame
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes Double Bill)
It’s time to raid Barry Manilow’s wardrobe. John Hughes’ iconic masterpiece THE BREAKFAST CLUB is celebrating 30 years in movie-lover detention, and to mark the occasion we’re screening both it and SIXTEEN CANDLES on Friday, April 3. In addition to this newly restored 4K print of THE BREAKFAST CLUB, we’ll