Movies
Genre: Documentary
VIFF: Other Music
The Rio Theatre is proud to be one of the returning hosting venues for The Vancouver International Film Festival VIFF presents the world’s best cinema fused with related talks and events in a unique Films+ model. Annually, VIFF presents over 320 films and events, plays host to approximately
David Crosby: Remember My Name
You thought you knew him. With unflinching honesty, self-examination, fear, exuberance and an unshakable belief in family and the transformative nature of music, singer-songwriter David Crosby shares his often challenging journey as he opens up about love, his career, and life’s regrets in this docu-portrait from producer Cameron Crowe. Featuring
The Queen
Decades before Paris Is Burning and Rupaul’s Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant introduced competitive drag to the world, along with LGBT icon and activist Flawless Sabrina. Watch for Andy Warhol, one of the pageant’s judges. “The gender identity and racial undercurrents of
Koyaanisqatsi
“Koyaanisqatsi” is a Hopi word meaning “Life Out of Balance,” which is both the subtitle and the theme of this intriguing and renowned documentary. Godfrey Reggio has woven a hypnotic tapestry of time-lapse photography and Philip Glass’ trademark minimalist soundtrack, which drones the title every chance it gets. The viewer
ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas
The story of how three oddball teenage bluesmen – Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard – became one of the biggest, most beloved bands on the planet, all while maintaining a surrealist mystique that continues to intrigue fans and entice onlookers 50 years after the band’s inception. “Though it’s
Honeyland
In this riveting documentary (now the first film ever to receive consecutive Oscar nominations for both Best Foreign Feature and Best Documentary!), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in HONEYLAND, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten
Maiden
MAIDEN is the story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989. Tracy’s inspirational dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Final Screening!)
Join us at the Rio Theatre as we raise a glass and toast the late, great, Toni Morrison, with a screening of the 2019 documentary TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM for a final, encore screening on Saturday, September 7. TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM offers an artful and
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (Final Screening)
MARIANNE AND LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE is renowned filmmaker Nick Broomfield‘s (WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME, KURT & COURTNEY) most personal and romantic film of his storied career. The documentary starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Paul Simon’s Grammy Award®-winning album ‘Graceland’ – an irresistible and groundbreaking fusion of American and South African pop music — was an immediate hit when it was released in 1986. It also proved to be a lightning rod for controversy, after South African leaders protested that Simon had broken the