Movies
Beau Travail (2020 Restoration)
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s ‘Billy Budd, Sailor’, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own
The Dark Divide (With Filmmaker Q&A!)
THE DARK DIVIDE is based on the true story of renowned butterfly expert Dr. Robert Pyle’s (David Cross) perilous 1995 journey across one of America’s largest undeveloped wildlands. At the urging of his dying wife Thea (Debra Messing), the shy author finds himself in over his head on an epic,
Bacurau
A few years from now… Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying
VIFF 2020 Opening Night: Monkey Beach (World Premiere)
The Vancouver International Film Festival kicks off its 2020 season on Thursday, September 24 with the World Premiere of Loretta Todd’s MONKEY BEACH. In bringing BC author Eden Robinson’s beloved novel to the screen, Todd offers us a modern epic underpinned by themes that have long defined heroic journeys in
We Are Many (International Day of Peace Live-stream Event)
100 Cities. One Night for Peace. On February 15th, 2003, up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. WE ARE MANY is the never-before-told story of the largest
The Karate Kid (1984)
It’s a cruel summer… In light of the epic success of YouTube/Netflix’s series Cobra Kai, we thought the time was right to revisit this hugely popular 80s coming-of-age story starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, in his Oscar-nominated performance. Hassled by the school bullies, Daniel LaRusso (Macchio) has his share
Space Dogs
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. According to a legend, she returned to Earth as a ghost and has roamed the streets of Moscow ever since. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, SPACE
TGR Presents: Make Believe
Get ready Vancouver! On Thursday, October 15, join Teton Gravity Research (TGR) at the Rio Theatre to get hyped for winter with our new ski and snowboard film MAKE BELIEVE on the big screen. Thursday, October 15 Early Show
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
In this classic Universal monster movie (originally released in 3D), a scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one
The Walrus and the Whistleblower
Phil Demers is a part-time mailman who lives in a bungalow across the creek from MarineLand, the iconic amusement park in Niagara Falls, where he had his dream job as an animal trainer for over a decade. He swam with killer whales and ran the show, until he quit and