Director Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” (1978) is a visually stunning evocation of love and murder, set timelessly on a screen as big and beautiful as America’s plains.

Richard Gere plays a steelworker who flees from the law to the Texas plains, where he, his girlfriend (played by Brooke Adams), and his young sister Linda find refuge as laborers on what seems like an earthly paradise, working for the owner, played by Sam Shepard.

However, primal emotions and forces of nature arrive with a vengeance.

Malick’s cinematic storytelling  in “Days of Heaven” took home the Oscar  for cinematography.

Audiences who are thrilled by Malick’s current masterpiece “The Tree of Life” will see a similar scope and ambition in this earlier movie, “Days of Heaven.”

Film starts at 7:00 pm Thursday, August 11. All seats are $8. Get to the Classics early as they are popular — or buy tickets in advance (see right column on the Rialto website). The Thursday evening Classics are very popular, so you may want to buy your ticket in advance at the box office or online. Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order food and drinks.

Due to overwhelming demand, extra shows have been added for “Grease Sing-along.”  The 7:15 show has sold out, but tickets are available for showings on Thursday, July 14 at 1:00 p.m, 4:00p.m,  and 11:55 p.m.  Buy your ticket now, online or at the box office!

GREASE is the word! Your chills will be multiplyin’ and the mood electrifyin’ as you sing along to GREASE’s hit tunes with the gang from Rydell High. Rydell High’s most famous graduating class is going back to school, when that sizzling couple hits the screen, greaser extraordinare John Travolta and good-girl Olivia Newton-John. A newly restored print brings the highest-grossing musical of all time, GREASE, to the big screen as a sing-along. Join Danny and Sandy with your own crew of T-Birds and Pink Ladies for a carnival ride back to those amazing summer nights!

As if Travolta and Newton-John weren’t enough, you’ll also have Sha-Na-Na performing, Frankie Avalon, and the inimitable Rydell High staff including Sid Caesar, Eve Arden, Joan Blondell, and Dody Goodman.

Sing along to “You’re the One That I Want, “Summer Nights,” and other great tunes.

All seats are $8. Buying your ticket in advance is advised.  Get to the Classics early as they are popular — or buy tickets in advance (see right column on the Rialto website).  Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order food and drinks.

Grease Sing-Along
Thursday, July 14.
Seats available for:
1:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
11:55 p.m.

“Escape from Alcatraz,” shows the real-life story of three desperate criminals, who attempted possibly the only successful escape from “The Rock,” the ultimate prison fortress. Clint Eastwood portrays life prisoner Frank Morris, who in 1962, along with two other lifers, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, used incredible daring and ingenuity to attempt escape from the prison housing the most dangerous criminals in America.

Alcatraz was closed as a prison a year after the escape attempt.

Probably the most realistic prison-break film ever made, directed by Don Siegel, who went on to direct Eastwood as “Dirty Harry,”the movie also features Patrick McGoohan as the vindictive warden, as well as the film debut of Danny Glover.

Film starts at 6:30 pm Thursday, June 9. All seats are $8. Get to the Classics early as they are popular — or buy tickets in advance (see right column on the Rialto website). The Thursday evening Classics are very popular, so you may want to buy your ticket in advance at the box office or online. Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order food and drinks.