Movies
The Human Scale: Film Screening and Discussion
Join the Planning Institute of BC’s South Coast Chapter for a screening and discussion of The Human Scale. 50 % of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face
Oasis: Supersonic
From the Oscar-winning producers of AMY and SENNA comes SUPERSONIC, a gin-and-tonic soaked documentary that offers unprecedented access to The Brothers Gallagher. SUPERSONIC tells the remarkable story of the iconic band Oasis in their own words and features extensive, unseen archival footage to illustrate their meteoric rise from
Gimme Danger
No other band in rock roll history has rivaled The Stooges combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete with succinct angst-ridden lyrics, and a snarling, preening leopard of a front man who somehow embodies Nijinsky, Bruce Lee, Harpo Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud all rolled into one. There
Miss Hokusai
The time: 1814. The place: Edo, now known as Tokyo. A much accomplished artist of his time and now in his mid-fifties, Tetsuzo can boast clients from all over Japan, and tirelessly works in the garbage-loaded chaos of his house-atelier. He spends his days creating astounding pieces of art, from
Election
“Some people say I’m an overachiever, but I think they’re just jealous.” Alexander Payne‘s darkly satirical 1999 coming-of-age comedy about an ambitious, over-achieving young woman who wants nothing more but to be her high school’s President (in spite of some, um, scandals) and the teacher who will stop
A Town Called Panic: Double Fun! Back to School Panic & Christmas Panic
A Town Called Panic: Double Fun Films by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar “An insane level of continuous action!” Take another trip to A Town Called Panic, with two award-winning new specials from the directors of the zany feature film and the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine. With disarming wit
Tunnel (“Teo-Neol”)
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a one-night-only screening of the South Korean disaster filmof the year, Kim Seong-hun’s TUNNEL (“Teo-neol”). This tense yet slyly satirical action thriller follows Jung-soo (Ha Jung-woo, who can next be seen in Park Chan-wook‘s highly anticipated THE HANDMAIDEN) a devoted husband, father and
Idiocracy
“I like money.” Given the current political climate with our neighbours to the South, it’s no wonder that people have been absolutely inundating us with requests for Mike Judge‘s politically prophetic, weirdly prescient cult-classic comedy IDIOCRACY. We’re giving it some much deserved big screen as a
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Let’s do the Time Warp… Again! There is no better way to experience the pop-culture juggernaut that is THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW than the the way it is meant to be seen – on the big screen, in the dark, and with a raucous Rio Theatre audience
Train to Busan
Get on board to stay alive. TRAIN TO BUSAN is a harrowing South Korean zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has