Movies
Pathu Thala
Director Obeli N. Krishna‘s latest Tamil-language epic PATHU THALA is a neo-noir gangster film following an undercover cop whose safety is compromised when he enters the dark crime world. Adapted from the 2017 Kannada-language film, MUFTI, this film features music composed by two-time Oscar winning composer and singer A.R.
Paterson
Jim Jarmusch lends his seamless eye to the majesty of the mundane in the melancholic comedy-drama PATERSON, which offers star Adam Driver (SILENCE, HBO’s GIRLS) a solid vehicle for this quiet, thoughtful character study of a bus driver with an uncanny knack for seeing the poetry of life in the
Past Lives
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront
Party Girl (30th Anniversary Screening)
Parker Posey‘s cult-classic 1995 comedy PARTY GIRL has just been given a gore-geous restoration, and it’s hitting the Rio Theatre’s screen for a 30th Anniversary screening on Wednesday, May 7. PARTY GIRL tells the story of Mary (Posey), a NYC nightclub scenester and social butterfly who rules the underground party
Paris, Texas (40th Anniversary 4K Restoration)
Wim Wenders‘ Palme d’Or-winning PARIS, TEXAS. has beeabn Written by the late, great Sam Shepard, this sweetly desolate road movie takes place in a mythologized Reagan-era America, and follows a disheveled man named Travis Henderson who wanders out of the desert, seemingly with no idea of who he is. When
Paris, 13th District
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard‘s (DHEEPAN, A PROPHET) latest, PARIS, 13th DISTRICT (“Les Olympiades”) is a sexy, funny, romantic drama set in the very contemporary world of four Paris millennials who are friends – and sometimes lovers. Sumptuously shot shot in black and white, Audiard’s very fresh take on the often
Paris Is Burning (4K Restoration)
Iconic and influential, PARIS IS BURNING returns to the Rio Theatre just in time for Pride – with a new restoration supervised by director Jennie Livingston. Where does vogue-ing come from, and what, exactly, is “throwing shade?” This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through
Paris 05:59: Théo et Hugo
This Movie is part of The Vancouver Queer Film Festival All information and tickets can also be found at http://queerfilmfestival.ca/ Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival is Vancouver’s second largest film festival and the largest queer arts event in Western Canada. The Festival
Parasite
Master Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho (THE HOST, SNOWPIERCER) brings his work home to Korea with his cinematic masterpiece PARASITE, a pitch-black modern fairytale that proved itself a complete game-changer for movie-lovers around the world in 2019. (And it’s fiiiiiiiiinally coming to the Rio!) Meet the Park Family: the picture
Parallel Mothers
Iconic Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar‘s latest contemporary drama centers on two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz, in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Ana, who encounter each other in a hospital room, where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it