Movies
Genre: Romance
李安Ang Lee’s 喜宴 The Wedding Banquet 1993 (30th Anniversary Digital Restoration)
THE WEDDING BANQUET is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Ang Lee. The story concerns a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. However, his plan backfires when his parents arrive in the
李安Ang Lee’s 飲食男女 Eat Drink Man Woman (30th Anniversary Restoration)
Chu is a master chef who has lost his sense of taste. He has three daughters with very different personalities: the eldest daughter, Jia-Jen, is a Christian, and since her mother’s death, she has taken up her mothe’s duties as the eldest daughter and dedicated herself to her family; the
Your Name.
Makoto Shinkai’s animated blockbuster and global pop culture hit YOUR NAME. (Kimi no Na wa.) is headed to the Rio Theatre – in both Japanese with English subs (May 1) and with the remastered English dub (May 3). Written and
You Hurt My Feelings
From acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (FRIENDS WITH MONEY, ENOUGH SAID, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?) comes a sharply observed comedy about a novelist whose long standing marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband give his honest reaction to her latest book. A film about trust, lies, and the
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Iconic director Vittorio De Sica‘s (THE BICYCLE THIEVES) beloved, Oscar-winning YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW (“Ieri, oggi, domani”) is an anthology that’s equal parts wit, charm, sweet hilarity; a trilogy of romantic comedies set in different parts of Italy, featuring Italy’s greatest on-screen couple, the incomprehensibly luminous Sophia Loren and Marcello
Yesterday
Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have
Y tu mamá también
Before breaking into Hollywood with films like CHILDREN OF MEN and GRAVITY, director Alfonso Cuarón made his name with arthouse audiences thanks to the sexy roadtrip movie Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (which he also co-wrote). Gael Garcia Bernal (NERUDA, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) and Diego Luna (ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS
Xanadu
“You have to believe we are magic Nothin’ can stand in our way” As movie and music-lovers here at the Rio Theatre, we were saddened to learn of the recent passing of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John. An Australian icon who was beloved around the
Wings of Desire (New Restoration!)
WINGS OF DESIRE is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give
Wings of Desire
WINGS OF DESIRE is Wim Wenders’ artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants to become a mortal human thus giving