Since winning the Cannes Film Festival‘s highly coveted Palm d’Or, master storyteller Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s (STILL WALKING, LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON and NOBODY KNOWS) latest offering SHOPLIFTERS has gone on to become one of the biggest arthouse features of the year (a Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominee) – not to … Read more
Canadian filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy’s (BLACK FIELD, H&G) dystopian, feminist sci-fi fantasy LEVEL 16 has been blowing up genre fests around the world – and returns to the Rio Theatre for its theatrical premiere in March, just in time for Women’s History Month. The film follows sixteen year-old protagonist Vivien, who is trapped in The Vestalis … Read more
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and currently nominated for an Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film), Lebanese writer-director Nadine Labaki‘s kinetic, timely, captivating drama CAPERNAUM (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. Made … Read more
Director Barry Jenkins’ (MOONLIGHT) striking visual and narrative style is on full display in his latest work, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, an adaptation of American author James Baldwin‘s timeless and moving novel of the same name. Set in 1970’s Harlem, this love story of both a couple’s unbreakable bond and the African-American family’s empowering … Read more
Director Barry Jenkins‘ (MOONLIGHT) striking visual and narrative style is on full display in his latest work, If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of acclaimed American author James Baldwin‘s timeless and moving novel of the same name. Set in 1970’s Harlem, this love story of both a couple’s unbreakable bond and the African-American family’s … Read more
“My only love sprung from my only hate.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, February 15, for a 30th Anniversary Galentine’s Day-ish(?) screening of Baz Luhrmann‘s iconic, very contemporary and highly stylized take on William Shakespeare‘s classic romantic tragedythe Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering, yet very hip, … Read more
Director Hal Ashby‘s sublime romantic black comedy stars a young Bud Cort as Harold, the son of a wealthy wealthy, neglectful woman. Disillusioned with life and obsessed with death to a morbid degree, he tries to gain attention for himself with various hilariously staged “suicides.” At a funeral, he meets a much, much older woman … Read more
“When one woman strikes at the heart of another she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.” Based on French author Choderlos de Laclos’ scandalous 1782 novel “Les Liasons Dangeureuses,” Stephen Frears’ sumptuously stylish DANGEROUS LIAISONS (not to be confused with Milos Forman‘s VALMONT) is a ribald tale concerning a cruel, wicked wager between scheming … Read more
Shot entirely on the remote, beautiful BC island of Haida Gwaii, EDGE OF THE KNIFE (“SGaawaay K’uuna”), is the first feature-length narrative film spoken entirely in the Haida language – one that is so endangered, with less than 20 fluent speakers, that a dialect coach was needed. With its roots in mythical, supernatural folklore, First … Read more
From visionary writer-director Gaspar Noé (IRREVERSIBLE, ENTER THE VOID, LOVE) comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night, when a troupe of young dancers gathers in a remote and empty school building to rehearse. Following an unforgettable opening performance lit by … Read more
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