Vancouver, get ready! TGR is heading to town October 18 and 19 for two nights of premieres with our new ski and snowboard film, Far Out, presented by REI. Regardless which night you choose, get ready for winter with TGR on the big screen, athlete poster signings and a ton of prize giveaways from our partners … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, August 9 as we take “a sublime trip to a fine new world,” with one of the all-time great midnight movie cult-classics, director René Laloux‘s 1973 animated marvel FANTASTIC PLANET. Nothing else has ever looked or felt like this film, a politically minded and visually inventive work … Read more
“That was pure wild animal craziness.” Based on the beloved children’s book ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox‘ by Roald Dahl, director Wes Anderson‘s animated adaptation is a delightfully charming and completely entertaining tale of an urbane fox (“vulpus vulpus”) who returns to his former farm-raiding ways and helps his community of animal friends survive the local farmers’ … Read more
Special Advance Screening Moving Art Presents FANTASTIC FUNGI Post Screening Discussion with Director Louie Schwartzberg and Special Guests Saturday, November 16 Doors 12:00 pm | Movie 1:00 pm Come early for great seats! Advance tickets $30 SOLD OUT| $35 at the door *Must be 19+ w/ID for entry and bar service. **Sorry, Rio Theatre Groupons … Read more
Directed by award-winning filmmaker and pioneer of time-lapse photography, Louie Schwartzberg (Moving Art, Wings of Life, Mysteries of the Unseen Worlds 3D Imax), Fantastic Fungi is an immersive experience that will inspire a shift in consciousness and a renewed love of nature. Narrated by Academy Award-Winner Brie Larson, Fantastic Fungi takes us on an immersive … Read more
Regarded by many as Walt Disney‘s masterpiece, FANTASIA predicted the modern music video by offering nine animated segments that were directly inspired by compressed versions of well-known classical music without necessarily adhering to the original composers’ intent. Featuring the work of the Disney studio’s artists at the height of their powers, and coupled with conductor … Read more
In solid, Native-centric drama FANCY DANCE — a project supported by the Sundance Institute across multiple development labs — writer-director Erica Tremblay gives audiences a glimpse into the Seneca-Cayuga people, focusing on a family devastated by the indifference of the world beyond the reservation. Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Oscar-nominee Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece … Read more
“You’ve got big dreams… You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. In sweat.” We’re kicking off September with an endearing back-to-school classic that that captures the dreams, anxieties, ambitions, victories and “hot lunch jams” of those perilous educational years, Sir Alan Parker‘s iconic musical FAME. Set against the … Read more
FALLEN LEAVES tells the story of two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. “A quirky tale of star-crossed lovers, ‘Fallen Leaves’ is a life-affirming gem from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki.” (Rotten … 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
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