“All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.” Based on 22-year-old Cameron Crowe‘s undercover exposé on life in a Southern California public high school, director Amy Heckerling’s groundbreaking ensemble comedy drama is a cinematic pop-culture juggernaut, notable for being alternately poignant and funny as it chronicles various episodes from the … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on January 10 with a winter-y classic from directors Joel and Ethan Cohen, FARGO. Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt… but he’s got a plan. He’s going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to … Read more
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE is a 1993 Chinese epic historical drama film, directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi. Cheng Dieyi (Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera (Jing-Ju) Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed … Read more
In solid, Native-centric drama FANCY DANCE — a project supported by the Sundance Institute across multiple development labs — writer-director Erica Tremblay gives audiences a glimpse into the Seneca-Cayuga people, focusing on a family devastated by the indifference of the world beyond the reservation. Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Oscar-nominee Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece … Read more
“You’ve got big dreams… You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. In sweat.” We’re kicking off September with an endearing back-to-school classic that that captures the dreams, anxieties, ambitions, victories and “hot lunch jams” of those perilous educational years, Sir Alan Parker‘s iconic musical FAME. Set against the … Read more
FALLEN LEAVES tells the story of two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. “A quirky tale of star-crossed lovers, ‘Fallen Leaves’ is a life-affirming gem from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki.” (Rotten … Read more
Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of CHUNGKING EXRESS, only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature as … Read more
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
Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder star in Sundance and TIFF festival favourite EXPERIMENTER, the story of controversial social psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose radical experiments tested humans willingness to obey authority. Also starring Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Kellan Lutz, Anthony Edwards, Jim Gaffigan. “… a heady brew of theories about the essence of human … Read more
One of the biggest surprise sleeper hits of 2015 is EX MACHINA, Alex Garland’s “uncommonly engaging” directorial debut, hailed as a “a smart, sleek movie about men and the machines they make” by The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac. Sunday, July 19 *Additional dates TBD. Doors … Read more
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