The new Vancouver women in horror documentary GIRLS WITH GUTS (formerly working title “Vancouver Video Vixens”) by emerging Vancouver filmmaker Becca Kozak (2021, 68 minutes) will introduced by the director, screened and followed by a Gigi Saul Guerrero moderated Q&A with the director and Vancouver-based women horror directors featured in the film. Monday, October 11 … Read more
Director Carlos López Estrada (BLINDSPOTTING) is back with SUMMERTIME, an ensemble piece following the intersecting stories of 27 youth spoken word poets over a single day in Los Angeles. The director’s ground-breaking vision began at a poetry showcase where performers from across the City of Angels recited fearlessly personal texts about themselves, their communities, and their … Read more
NO ORDINARY MAN is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero. American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in … Read more
Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of CHUNGKING EXRESS, only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature as … 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
Lucy Standbridge (Aubrey Plaza) has inherited her father’s publishing house, and the ambitious would-be editor has nearly sunk it with failing titles. She discovers she is owed a book by Harris Shaw (Michael Caine), a reclusive, cantankerous, booze-addled author who originally put the company on the map decades earlier. In a last-ditch effort to save … Read more
Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down, and he is forced to move back in with his family. He tries to find himself between an international music career and Pakistani family traditions. Starring musician and Oscar-nominee Riz Ahmed (THE SOUND OF METAL) … Read more
In Wes Anderson‘s 2004 cult-comedy, renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. … Read more
“Stay gold, Ponyboy.” The Rio Theatre’s SUMMER MOVIE BATTLE: 80’S vs. Y2K finally gets going for Team 80’s, and they’re coming in strong with a story and film that’s a part of every Gen X’ers DNA, THE OUTSIDERS. In 1983, director Francis Ford Coppola struck a powerful chord with his adaptation of S.E. Hinton‘s classic … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a big screen, big sound tribute to the man behind the Rolling Stones‘ drum kit, the late, great Charlie Watts. We’ll be presenting a very special double bill featuring the rarely-seen, meticulously restored and fully-realized version of the legendary (but never released film) CHARLIE IS MY DARLING: IRELAND, … Read more
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