Movies
The Blues Under the Skin (New Restoration!)
In the early 1970s, during a resurgence of interest in the Delta blues, music documentarian Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture on film the remnants of the authentic American blues. Traveling throughout the deep South, Manthoulis filmed candid interviews and intimate performances by such legends B.B.
The Time Masters (4K Restoration)
Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (FANTASTIC PLANET) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) THE TIME MASTERS is a visually fantastic foray into existentialist space adventure. After his parents are killed on the dangerous planet Perdide, young Piel (voiced by Frédéric Legros) survives by maintaining radio
MaXXXine
Filmmaker Ti West‘s 2022 slasher hit X and its surprise origin story prequel PEARL, released that same year, amassed a major following among dedicated horror movie fans (including some guy named Martin Scorsese, who has been particular effusive in his support). The franchise concludes with the highly anticipated release of
Oddity
In this new supernatural spectacle from CAVEAT’s Damian McCarthy, a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin. When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from
Break the Game (Filmmakers in Attendance)
After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new world record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while live-streaming every minute of her mythic quest. Drawing from an archive of
Donnie Darko
“Sometimes, I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.” Before STRANGER THINGS combined science fiction, Spielbergian touches and ‘80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with his debut feature, DONNIE DARKO. Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge
Last Summer
With her first film in a decade, the fearless 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL, THE LAST MISTRESS) proves she’s as provocative as ever with her Cannes-stirring film, which drives down the dark road of uncontrollable passion. A remarkably nuanced, radiant Léa Drucker plays Anne, an attorney who has
Thrashin’
Hot. Reckless. Totally Insane. The Rio Theatre‘s deep dive into 80’s-era cinematic gold continues with the the sk8r classic THRASHIN’ on Wednesday, August 14. Corey (Josh Brolin) and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they’re more interested in girls and having fun on their boards
Thelma
When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her. Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin‘s own grandmother, THELMA puts a clever spin
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
Shadowed by the torment of the murder of his entire family, the young, wary Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather Tiberius (Peter O’Toole) and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire as it descends into a spiral of depravity, destruction and madness. A treatise on the corrupting