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No Other Land

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli  occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families -the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied

No Ordinary Man: The Billy Tipton Documentary

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

No Fear: The Manny Pacquiao Story

Thanks to his fierce reputation as an aggressive left-handed slugger and his status as a two-time world champion, diminutive Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao is recognized as one of the hardest punchers in any weight class and a bona fide national hero. Incorporating footage from his most memorable fights, this inspiring

No Country For Old Men

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, July 7  as we raise a glass to the late, great, literary giant Cormac McCarthy with a screening of what is undoubtedly the most widely known cinematic of adaptations of his work, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The film was a massive

Ninja Scroll (30th Anniversary Restoration)

Anime Expo Cinema Nights Presents the classic anime Ninja Scroll’s 30th Anniversary with an all-new exclusive interview with director Yoshiaki Kawajiri. A mysterious vagabond sets out on a journey to confront his past. Little does he know he is up against a demonic force of killers, with a ghost from

Ninja Scroll

Unlike most anime films, writer-director Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s classic 1993 epic NINJA SCROLL eschews notions of a cyberpunk future, and is instead set in more of a “sword-and-sorcery” environment located in a mythical, feudal Japan. Jubei, a highly skilled ninja, is coerced into slaying his own clan of warriors.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

“Beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” The late, great, John Hurt stars in one of the most talked (not to mention timely) about movies of 2017… 1984. First published in 1949, English author George Orwell’s chilling dystopian satire has again come to prominence in the ether (and atop bestseller lists)

Nine to Five

“They just use your mind and you never get the credit It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it…” As part of Women’s History Month in March, we felt the time was right to revisit something of a cinematic unicorn: A blockbuster 80s

Nightmare Alley

When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With

About The Rio

Voted the #1 Independent Theatre in Vancouver, the Rio Theatre is a multimedia venue featuring arthouse, mainstream and cult-classic cinemas as well as live entertainment. Built in 1938, the Rio has been fully restored with a state of the art digital projector, surround sound, a huge stage and 420 luxurious seats.

1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC

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