The sexy, funny Argentinian WILD TALES is headed to the Rio for a single screening Monday, April 27 at 9:00 pm. This ensemble piece about on six different people in six different stories was one of 2014’s most celebrated international features – nominated for a Palmes d’or at Cannes and an Academy Award nominee for … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for an evening celebrating two classic animated films from Japan’s Studio Ghibli, including Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (1988) and Isao Takahata’s hauntingly beautiful GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1988). We will be screening both films in Japanese with subtitles. Wednesday, May 6 MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (G) Doors 5:30 … Read more
“He’s X-rated and animated!” Based on Robert Crumb’s comic strip of the same name, director Ralph Bakshi’s FRITZ THE CAT (1972) follows the adventures of a hypocritical swinging college student cat who raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements in a swingin’ (and highly sexual) animated version of the universe in the1960’s. Friday, … Read more
In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (BABEL, PACIFIC RIM) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated Office Lady whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape of a popular film she’s mistaken for a documentary, fixating on a scene where a suitcase of … Read more
Behind every code is an enigma. Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, THE IMITATION GAME portrays the nail-biting race against time by quiet genius Alan Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain’s top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during the darkest days of World War … Read more
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 a drug addiction epidemic. Linklater … Read more
“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.” Join us for at the Rio Theatre for director Stanley Kubrick‘s 1964 cold war classic DR. STRANGELOVE. Loosely based on Peter George‘s thriller novel ‘Red Alert,’ DR. STRANGELOVE concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the … Read more
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 21st 7pm, Doors at 6:30pm … Read more
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 Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, … Read more
Director Peter Strickland scores another unnervingly stylish arthouse hit with THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, his follow up to the eerily sound homage to retro horror, BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (2012). At its core, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY is a spellbinding, calculating work of tense eroticism that explores the unusually intimate relationship between two women, the wealthy … Read more
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