Movies
POSTPONED: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Dearest Rio Friends & Movie-Lovers: As per the government’s latest directive on November 23, 2020, we will be suspending operations until December 8, 2020 (barring any further changes). Screenings will be re-scheduled, and ticket-holders will be contacted shortly. In the meantime, we thank-you for your endless generosity and
Zappa
“I want to tell Frank’s story without making a biopic; to make a music doc without making a music doc. And I think that’s just how Frank would have wanted it.” (Alex Winter) With unfettered access to the Zappa family trust and all archival footage, ZAPPA explores the private life behind the
Vancouver Polish Film Festival: I Never Cry
Vancouver Polish Film Festival 2020 Sunday, November 8 Doors 12:30 | Movie 12:50 *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Screening with the short film “Marcell” I NEVER CRY 1h 38min | Drama | 2020 | English subtitles 17-year-old Ola has to go to Ireland
Vancouver Polish Film Festival: Supernova
The Vancouver Polish Film Festival 2020 Sunday, November 8 Doors 9:30 am | Movie 10:00 am *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Screens with the short documentary “Amnesia” SUPERNOVA 1h 18min | Drama, Thriller | 2019 | English subtitles Three men, one place and
Casino (25th Anniversary Screening!)
Join us at the Rio Theatre as we celebrate Martin Scorsese‘s “birthday week” with a 25th Anniversary screening of the classic 1995 mob epic CASINO. The film was adapted from celebrated crime writer Nicholas Pileggi’s “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas,” a non-fiction depiction of the story behind the
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca’
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, November 18, as we continue our look back at the masterful works of Alfred Hitchcock with a screening of the psychologically taut, sexually subversive pre-code thriller REBECCA – his first American
La Haine (30th Anniversary Screening)
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, June 4 for Matthieu Kassovitz‘ gritty and groundbreaking urban French drama LA HAINE (2020 restoration). Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with his 1996 feature LA HAINE, a bold, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (20th Anniversary Screening)
“Damn! We’re in a tight spot!” Joel and Ethan Coen‘s quirky sensibilities were in complete and total order in their 2000 crime caper O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, which is getting some much-deserved screen time at the Rio Theatre for it’s 20th Anniversary this November. The
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Mass murderer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is resurrected from the bottom of Crystal Lake. After he kills a passing boat’s occupants, he stows away on a cruise ship filled with a high-school graduating class bound for New York City. Biology teacher Charles McCulloch (Peter Mark Richman) is on board with
Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory
“It explodes in the no-man’s land no picture ever dared cross before!” Adapting Humphrey Cobb‘s novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty.