Movies
Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (60th Anniversary Restoration)
Jean-Luc Godard‘s CONTEMPT, the director’s color and CinemaScope ravishingly visual New Wave masterpiece starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang and Jack Palance, has been beautifully restored in glorious 4K for its 60th Anniversary! Contempt… That’s what ex-typist Bardot has for screenwriter/husband Piccoli — but why? Does she think he
Hostel Hudugaru Bekagiddare
Indian writer-director Nithin Krishnamurthy’s debut, the Kannada-language feature comedy HOSTEL HUDUGARU BEKAGIDDARE, his focuses on the male bonding in a campus hotel and what antics guys there get up to. The entire movie is shot on a ‘hand-held camera’ and follows the protagonists at Thunga Boys Hostel
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Cape Fear’
“Counselor! Come out, come out, wherever you are!” Join us on Thursday, August 17 for a double feature that celebrates actor Robert De Niro (on his birthday!) and includes two of our favourite performances from his many collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese – TAXI DRIVER and CAPE FEAR.
This Place (With Director Q&A!)
We’re getting in the mood for Vancouver Pride Weekend with a special screening of Tamil filmmaker V.T. Nayani‘s sapphic love story, THIS PLACE, on Monday, July 31. Set in urban Toronto, THIS PLACE is a coming-of-adulthood story about two women falling in love for
Past Lives
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront
Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (4K Restoration)
When it’s after midnight in New York City, you don’t have to look for love, laughter and trouble. They’ll all find you! The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 18 with what may be Martin Scorsese‘s most under-appreciated (and certainly overlooked) surreal, Kafka-esque black
Death Race 2000
Start your engines… The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 11 with the high-octane camp classic DEATH RACE 2000. In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road
The YouTube Effect (With Alex Winter Q&A)
The story of YouTube is both inspirational and cautionary; the video-sharing website appeared in 2005 and quickly grew to become one of the most ubiquitous and powerful media platforms in the world. It is impossible to overstate its impact on global culture by providing easy and immediate access to news,
BRO (Vancouver Premiere!)
BRO is a upcoming Indian Telugu-language fantasy comedy film written and directed by Samuthirakani. It stars Pawan Kalyan, Sai Dharam Tej, Priya Prakash Varrier, Ketika Sharma, Brahmanandam, and Subbaraju. Thursday, July 27 Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to
Bones of Crows
BONES OF CROWS is told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears as she survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into