Movies
Listening: Canadian Premier with Director Q&A
For years, we have tried to harness the power of the human mind… and failed. Now, one breakthrough will change everything. Beyond technology. Beyond humanity. Beyond control. LISTENING, the award-winning debut feature from visionary director Khalil Sullins, is a psychological thriller about penniless grad students who invent mind-reading technology that
Listen to Me Marlon
Drawing on over 200 hours of recently discovered recordings, director Stevan Riley constructs a revelatory self-portrait of the legendary Marlon Brando. With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive, including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, LISTEN TO ME MARLON is
Lissa’s Trip
Sofia Vassileva takes us on a wild ride through the transformed streets of Los Angeles as an actress who accidentally drops a lot of acid and tries to get to her audition anyway. Loosely inspired by Homer’s “Odyssey,” the film follows Lissa as she encounters bizarre characters and situations that
Lisa Frankenstein
A coming of RAGE love story from Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody (JENNIFER’S BODY, YOUNG ADULT, JUNO) about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous
Lion
Best Supporting Actor Oscar-nominee Dev Patel (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, ‘The Newsroom’) helms LION, inspired by the true, touching, and ultimately uplifting story of an Australian man who finds his long-lost family in India – with the help of Google Earth. Nominated for a whopping six Oscars (including
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
In LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, Ronstadt is our guide through her early years of singing Mexican canciones with her family; her folk days with the Stone Poneys; and her reign as the “rock queen” of the ’70s and early ’80s. She was a pioneer for women in
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
LILITH FAIR is the story of a group of women who were told their dream was unachievable yet pursued it anyway, and changed music history in the process. It’s a story of artists who defied every convention of the music industry, an industry that told them there was only room
Lift Like a Girl
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Sunday, August 15 for a special, single engagement of the critically acclaimed documentary LIFT LIKE A GIRL. On a busy, noisy high-traffic street corner in Alexandria, Egypt, a seemingly vacant corner lot surrounded by chain link fencing is the training site of Egypt’s
Life Off Grid
LIFE OFF GRID is a film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewableenergy with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results. Filmed over two years of travel throughout Canada, LIFE OFF GRID shows how “off-gridders” have disconnected their houses while maintaining a familiar sense of home. Filmmaker
Life
Celebrated photographer Anton Corbijn (Depeche Mode, Bjork, U2) follows up on 2014’s A MOST WANTED MAN with LIFE, a look at James Dean’s blossomng early career as told through the lens of a burgeoning friendship the actor had with an ambitious young photographer at LIFE Magazine. Starring Robert Pattinson and