Movies
Genre: Drama
Rushmore
“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?” Wes Anderson’s RUSHMORE chronicles a year in the life of Max Fischer (a career-making debut performance from Jason Schwartzman), a student at Rushmore Academy, one of the finest schools in the country. Max loves his prestigious school; he is the editor of
Dog Day Afternoon
The robbery should have taken ten minutes. Eight hours later, it was the hottest thing on live TV. And it’s all true. Based on the true story of a 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery that went awry, Sidney Lumet‘s Oscar-winning drama chronicles a truly unique New York City
Dazed and Confused
Alright, alright, alright! Why go cruising the strip or climbing the moontower when you could spend it at your favourite indie movie theatre instead? Join us at the Rio Theatre for a slice of cult-classic nostalgia that celebrates the best day of high school you never had:
The Painted Bird
In an effort to save their child from the massive extermination of Jews, a Jewish couple send their son to hide in the countryside with a relative somewhere in Eastern Europe. The little boy’s aunt dies unexpectedly and the stray child is suddenly forced to hit the road and make
The Royal Tenenbaums
Writer-director Wes Anderson‘s unique, signature narrative and visual style are front and center in his offbeat 2001 comedy, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, an extraordinary story of one family’s sudden, unexpected reunion. Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children–Chas, Richie, and Margot–they were a family of geniuses and then they
Citizen Kane
Iconic filmmaker Orson Welles hit it “out of the park” with his first feature, which he produced, co-wrote, directed, and starred in: CITIZEN KANE. This labyrinthine study of the life of a newspaper tycoon examines the scandalous and complicated legacy of Charles Foster Kane (Welles), and is loosely based on
No Country For Old Men
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, July 7 as we raise a glass to the late, great, literary giant Cormac McCarthy with a screening of what is undoubtedly the most widely known cinematic of adaptations of his work, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The film was a massive
In the Heat of the Night
When a wealthy industrialist is found murdered in a small Mississippi town and an African-American man is picked up at the train station with a wallet full of cash, local Police Chief Bill Gillespie immediately assumes he has caught his culprit. He’s soon embarrassed to learn that the man he
First Cow
Writer-director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) once again trains her perceptive and patient eye on the Pacific Northwest, this time evoking an authentically hardscrabble early nineteenth century way of life. A taciturn loner and skilled cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers
1917
April 6th, 1917: As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers — Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake — receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must cross over into enemy territory to deliver a message that could potentially save 1,600