Movies
Shadow
With SHADOW, director Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) once again pushes the boundaries of “wuxia” action to create a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of inky blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood of the defeated. In a kingdom ruled by
Seven Veils
Visionary Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan‘s latest work casts Amanda Seyfriend as earnest theatre director Jeanine, who has been given the task of remounting her former
Seven Samurai (4K Restoration)
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate
Serial Mom
Writer/director John Waters offers an outrageous satire of suburban life–and the American fame industry for merchandizing mass murderers–with this hilarious black comedy about a Baltimore woman who’s the ideal wife and mother… Except for her habit of killing people who annoy her. It’s SERIAL MOM… On Mother’s Day! Happy housewife
Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (Remaster!)
As part of Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver and in celebration of Italian Day on the Drive (Sunday, June 10), the Rio Theatre is highlighting select Italian titles in June, including director Sergio Leone‘s newly remastered, genre-defining “spaghetti Western” A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964), starring Clint
Seoul Station
Directed by Sang-ho Yeon (THE KING OF PIGS, THE FAKE), the highly entertaining and socially aware animated zombie thriller SEOUL STATION is a kind of “prequel” to Yeon’s live-action horror film, the international mega-blockbuster TRAIN TO BUSAN (Korea’s highest grossing film of 2016 that also enjoyed several sold out screenings
Secretary
Assume the position. Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader smoulder as an unlikely couple whose workplace relationship unexpectedly blossoms into something… Beyond the professional. SECRETARY is an all-time Rio Theatre audience fan-favourite, and one of our most requested romances – a perfect fit for our Friday Late Night Movies series in
Secret Screening: A #SavetheRio Fundraiser
“You’re My Only Hope.” Vancouver’s favourite nerdlesque troupe, the galactic Geekenders, will be on hand as the official nerf-herders at the Rio cantina for a #SavetheRio secret screening fundraiser party unlike anything #EastVan’s Rebel Alliance has ever played host to before… Prepare yourself for an unadulterated, totally original screening
Secret Mall Apartment
In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling in more than two tons of cinderblock.
Se7en (30th Anniversary Restoration)
“Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won’t deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner.” Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust — everyone has a sin. In director David Fincher‘s intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching psychological thriller SE7EN, “sin” takes