Movies
Genre: Drama
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (Remaster!)
As part of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver and in celebration of Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 10), the Rio Theatre is programming screenings of select Italian titles in June. On Sunday, June 10 – after you’re done noshing on canoli and strolling on
Mermaids (35th Anniversary Restoration)
New England…the early 1960s. A sexy and unpredictable single mother of two is a source of constant embarrassment to her confused 15-year-old daughter, who’s trying to deal with her own sexual awakening and not having an easy time of it. Based on a novel by Patty Dann. Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax
Men
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her
Memories of Murder (2020 Remaster)
Bong Joon Ho‘s brilliant crime drama MEMORIES OF MURDER recounts the true story of the hunt for a serial rapist and murderer who terrorised a small province in 1980s South Korea. This 2003 film from the PARASITE Oscar-winner marks the first of many successful collaborations between
Memoria
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES), and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after
Memoir of a Snail
Grace Pudel (voiced by Sarah Snook) is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee), she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued
Megdan: Between Water and Fire (Canadian Premiere)
Joins us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, October 19 for the Canadian Premiere of the Serbian film MEGDAN: BETWEEN WATER AND FIRE. Saturday, October 19 Doors 12:30 pm | Movie 1:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets HERE Stars
Megalopolis (Final Screening)
MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a
Mean Streets (50th Anniversary Screening)
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, July 20 for a 50th Anniversary, encore screening of Martin Scorsese’s 1973 gritty crime drama, MEAN STREETS. Released to widespread critical acclaim, MEAN STREETS is a slice of street life in Little Italy centred on lower echelon Mafiosos, unbalanced punks, and petty
Me and Felix
From the producer of “My Thoughts Are Silent,” “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” “Wild Field,” “Homeward,” “Atlantis.” ME AND FELIX (“Rock, Paper, Grenade”) is a story about relationships between children and adults broken by shaky 1990s in Ukraine. The boy Tymophii befriends a weird man named Felix. He’s the veteran of Afghan war,