May 03, 2015 9:00 PM Please join us for our cast and crew screening of ‘SUSPENSION’, Sunday May 3rd at The Rio theatre in Vancouver. Doors open at 9:00pm, screening at 9:20pm. All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards our upcoming festival run and your support is much appreciated! We look forward to seeing you … Read more
Narrated by Academy Award Nominee Liam Neeson and directed by Ryan Moore and Academy Award winner Leon Gast (“When We Were Kings”), “Manny” is the untold story of one of the most loved and respected athletes of all time. From a starving teenager who fought to feed his family, to becoming a boxing champion on … Read more
Based on journalist Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning book “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief,” Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s (THE ARMSTRONG LIE) explosive new documentary on the inner-workings of Scientology is an unflinching look at the organization, deconstructing everything from the “cult” of charismatic leader L. Ron Hubbard to his organization’s dubious and … Read more
The Rio Theatre is proud to present documentaries MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE and Oscar winner THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK on Friday, May 22 – Harvey Milk Day. These two films about two very different individuals in two different decades are each astounding portraits of men who, unwittingly, became icons within not … Read more
The Rio Theatre is proud to present documentaries MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE and Oscar winner THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK on Friday, May 22 – Harvey Milk Day. These two films about two very different individuals in two different decades are each astounding portraits of men who, unwittingly, became icons within not … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for THE YOUNG MARRIEDS, cult director Ed Wood’s (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) final (hardcore porno) film. For years, the movie was thought to be lost, until local movie collector and “Porn Archeologist” Dimitrios Otis found a copy of the 16mm film (released in 1972) in a pile at … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for the Vancouver Premiere of acclaimed director Carl Bessai’s latest feature, a tip of the hat to the glorious days of 70’s-era Canuxploitation, BAD CITY. Co-authored by co-stars Dustin Milligan (the CBC’s Schitt’s Creek, REPEATERS) and Aaron Brooks, this locally-lensed and totally groovy comedy also features Amanda Crew (THE … Read more
“A boy’s best friend is his mother. “ Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for … Read more
“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on August 13 as wetip our collective hat and raise an icy beverage to one of the absolute icons of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock (on his birthday!), with a screening of what many consider to be … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on March 29 with Jim Jarmusch‘s moody, atmospheric, and darkly funny cult-classic DOWN BY LAW (starring the near-perfect trio of Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, and John Lurie). When fate brings together three hapless men—an unemployed disc jockey (Waits), a small-time pimp (Lurie), and a strong-willed Italian … Read more
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