“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 mammoth musical career that never … Read more
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 to bring back the body of her father, … Read more
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 one event that will change the life of … Read more
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 alliance of Mafia mobsters Lefty … Read more
“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 film, and only Best Picture Oscar-winner. Adapted … Read more
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 France, specifically the low-income banlieue … Read more
“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 story follows three convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim … Read more
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 his niece, Rennie (Jensen Daggett), … Read more
“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. In the third year of World War … Read more
Based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, PERCY follows small-town farmer Percy Schmeiser (Christopher Walken) who challenges a major conglomerate when the company’s genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in the 70-year-old farmer’s crops. As he speaks out against the company’s business practices, he realizes he is representing thousands of other disenfranchised farmers around the … Read more
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