Midsommar

From the visionary mind of Ari Aster (EDDINGTON, HEREDITARY, BEAU IS AFRAID) comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale, where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight… MIDSOMMAR remains one of our favourite arthouse horror films of the past few years, and what better way to pay homage to the start of summer than with a … Read more

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

“The horror … The horror…” Gorgeously restored and remastered for its 40th Anniversary in 2019, Francis Ford Coppola’s visionary Vietnam War epic a APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT returns to the Rio Theatre‘s screen this September. It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and … Read more

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Paris, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalous release of ‘L’Age d’Or’ leads to a falling out with collaborator Salvador Dalí. On a whim, Buñuel’s good friend, sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket and promises to devote his winnings to fund Buñuel’s next film. Incredibly, Ramón wins the … Read more

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

As a result of the critical and commercial acclaim of THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO, triple threat Joe Talbot – who directed, wrote and stars in the breakout indie hit – has emerged as a talent to watch in 2019. Talbot stars as Jimmie Fails, who dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his … Read more

The White Crow

Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of iconic Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. Inspired by the book “Rudolf Nureyev: The Life” by Julie Kavanaugh, the film charts the iconic dancer’s famed defection from the Soviet Union to … Read more

Wild Rose

Fresh out of prison, a Scottish woman juggles her job and two children while pursuing her dream of becoming a country music star. She soon gets her chance when she travels to Nashville, Tenn., on a life-changing journey to discover her true voice. Featuring a breakthrough performance from star Jessie Buckley, the film also stars … Read more

Easy Rider

Join us on Saturday, August 19 for a screening of one of our most requested titles, Dennis Hopper‘s beautifully restored directorial debut EASY RIDER. A groundbreaking icon of counter-culture and cinema, EASY RIDER made stars out of Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Hopper, was hailed by Time Magazine as, “one of the ten most important … Read more

Eyes Wide Shut

In 1999, Tom Cruise and then real-life wife Nicole Kidman starred as a married couple exploring the possibilities of infidelity in master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick‘s erotically-charged, mysterious, psychological drama EYES WIDE SHUT. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 psychosexual novella ‘Dream Story,’ the film was famously shrouded in secrecy and took 12 years to make; sadly, … Read more

The NeverEnding Story

“Having a luck dragon with you is the only way to go on a quest.” As we near ever-closer to the series finale of Netlfix’s blockbuster series “Stranger Things,” we thought the time was right to revisit Wolfgang Petersen’s beloved 1984 classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY. A complete and total pop-culture touchstone for 80’s kids (and … Read more

Contact

She’s known it since she was a young girl, when she would magically connect with distant voices on her father’s shortwave radio. She’s known it since college, when she chose the search for intelligent extraterrestrial messages as her discipline. She’s known it since she bargained for just hours a week of satellite time to sweep … Read more