Movies
Genre: Drama
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (With Barry Hertz Intro + Q&A)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a high-speed ride through the making of the iconic THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS franchise with award-winning film critic Barry Hertz, followed by a screening of FAST AND FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT. Buckle up for an adrenaline-fueled deep-dive into one of cinema’s most
The Farewell
Writer-director Lulu Wang mined her own life experience for the premise behind the family drama THE FAREWELL, which has emerged as one of this summer’s breakout indie critical and commercial hits. Rapper-turned-actress Awkwafina – who proved her comedic chops in both Crazy Rich Asians and Ocean’s 8 –, and has now
The Fall (4K Restoration)
The Rio Theatre’s “Must Be Seen on the Big Screen” series continues with one of the most regularly requested titles we get from our audience, writer-director Tarsem’s (THE CELL) visionary 2006 epic THE FALL. Relive this gorgeous fantasy fable on the big screen with its stunning new 4k restoration, presented
The Fabelmans
In post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see “The Greatest Show on Earth” and aspires to become a filmmaker himself. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight
The Exorcist
The Power of Christ compels you! Four decades after its release, director William Friedkin’s supernatural horror classic THE EXORCIST still remains one of the most frightening films ever made. Based on the hugely popular novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty (who also wrote the screenplay), the film
The Eternal Daughter (Final Screening)
In this ghost story from acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg (THE SOUVENIR, THE SOUVENIR PART II) a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their former family home, a once-grand manor that has become a nearly vacant hotel brimming with mystery and haunted by
The Duke of Burgundy
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
The Doors: The Final Cut
We’re paying tribute to the late, great Val Kilmer by dimming the lights and firing up the projector with a tribute screening of one of his most iconic roles, that of rocker Jim Morrison in director Oliver Stone‘s historical drama about one of pop music’s most influential bands and impactful
The Doom Generation (4K Restoration)
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on June 21 with Gregg Araki‘s fifth feature, the 1995 dark satire THE DOOM GENERATION. Billed as, “A Heterosexual Movie by Gregg Araki,” the film is the second installment in the director’s trilogy known as the Teenage Apocalypse film
The Disaster Artist (#Save the Rio Fundraiser)
Oh hai, Doggy. In November of 2013, while filming THE INTERVIEW in Vancouver, James Franco saw THE ROOM for the very first time at the Rio Theatre. That screening was hosted by actor Greg Sestero (aka as “Mark” in Tommy Wiseau‘s pop-culture phenomenon), who was discussing his recently