Movies
Genre: Drama
Neptune Frost
Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album “MartyrLoserKing.” Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, NEPTUNE FROST
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on July 5 with one of the most requested titles we get from our audience of cinephiles, Terry Gilliam‘s gonzo trip-fest FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. Only visionary director Gilliam (BRAZIL, TWELVE MONKEYS) could manage to make Hunter
The Righteous
Canadian actor and filmmaker Mark O’Brien (READY OR NOT) does triple duty in his impressive, slow-burn directorial feature debut THE RIGHTEOUS, which he also wrote and stars in. Praised at genre film festivals around the world, THE RIGHTEOUS is a unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller strikingly shot in black
Kabaddi 4: The Final Match
!!HAAIT, YO KAJI KO BIHE KO KABADDI KAILE SAMMA KHELNEY HOU!! After some heartfelt events, in this final film of the KABBADI franchise, Kaji now doesn’t seek love as he is suffering from the pain of his previous relationships. The movie has its own romantic and comedy twist with Shanti
Lux Aeterna
Written and directed by Gaspar Noé (CLIMAX, ENTER THE VOID) LUX ÆTERNA takes place backstage of a French film production, often utilizing split-screens to follow two characters at once. Charlotte Gainsbourg, acting as herself, plays the film’s — and the film-within-a-film’s — leading role of an
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma continues to prove herself as one of the most accomplished and unpredictable contemporary French
Paris, 13th District
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard‘s (DHEEPAN, A PROPHET) latest, PARIS, 13th DISTRICT (“Les Olympiades”) is a sexy, funny, romantic drama set in the very contemporary world of four Paris millennials who are friends – and sometimes lovers. Sumptuously shot shot in black and white, Audiard’s very fresh take on the often
Charlotte
Charlotte is an animated drama that tells the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens
Vortex
Acclaimed filmmaker Gaspar Noé has made a name for himself with highly stylized, at times brutally assaultive films affecting a “cinema of the body” aesthetic, like IRREVERSIBLE, ENTER THE VOID, and CLIMAX. On the surface, his latest work VORTEX suggests a thematic removal – the passage of time, the inevitable
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (50th Anniversary Restoration)
Join us at the Rio Theatre as we dim the lights, raise a glass, and tip our collective cinematic hats to one of the all-time great actors of his generation, Gene Hackman, with a screening of one of his most indelible performances in Francis Ford Coppola‘s THE CONVERSATION. In 2022,