Damn the man. The hilariously adorable 90s cult favourite EMPIRE RECORDS is turning 25 (!) this month, so we’re gonna celebrate like it’s Rex Manning Day (it’s not – but you knew that) by giving it the big screen treatment it so richly deserves. Featuring a seriously killer soundtrack and a cast of all-stars before … Read more
Michèle (Best Actress Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert) seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious … Read more
A throwback to the glory days of early 90s French electronica, director Mia Hansen-Løve’s EDEN (a critical hit at 2014’s Toronto Film Festival) marries the music of the era with a compelling dramatic narrative. Inspired by the musings of Hansen-Løve’s brother Sven (a well-known Parisian DJ at the time), EDEN follows a teenager navigating the … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, April 22 for a very special Earth Day screening of the celebrated French climate change film TOMORROW (‘Demain’). Following the publication of a study that announced the possible disappearance of a part of humanity between here and 2100, co-directors Cyril Dion and actress Mélanie Laurent (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS), … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, November 11 for a Remembrance Day screening of acclaimed auteur Christopher Nolan‘s 2018 Oscar-winner, DUNKIRK. Told in three parts, this thrilling World War II drama takes a bold and innovative look at the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut … Read more
Nobody does it better. Join us at the Rio Theatre for James Bond Week, featuring digitally remastered screenings of MOONRAKER, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, DR. NO, and GOLDFINGER. Thursday, July 9 Dr No Movie: 9:00pm Advance tickets available HERE Tickets $10 advance / $12 door *Advance tickets to all … Read more
The original Godzilla team of director Ishiro Honda, special-effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube reunited for this kaiju extravaganza, which features no fewer than eleven monsters. Set in the remote future of 1999, when the people of Earth have achieved world peace by confining destructive creatures to Monsterland (until an alien race intervenes), … Read more
This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his next slaughter victim things turn into chaos. With Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Maire-Laure Dougnac. … Read more
What you can’t have, you can’t resist. Proving that a good plot and strong characters make for timeless storytelling in any era, CRUEL INTENTIONS is a 90s adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel “Les Liaisons dangereuses,” that was released on the heels of both Stephen Frears’ DANGEROUS LIAISIONS (John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Uma … Read more
Writer-director Paweł Pawlikowski follows up his 2015 Oscar-winner IDA with an equally moving, visually stark, black and white dramatic period piece set in Poland. COLD WAR is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched … Read more
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