Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis' 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care...

"An exhilarating and superbly filmed rags to riches tale of the supreme voice of jazz." - Daily Express

"A study of a much loved but little understood musical icon that is touching but also very funny. "- The Guardian

Tracing the story of Ella Fitzgerald's life, this documentary explores how her music became a soundtrack for a tumultuous century. From a 1934 talent contest at

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Magnolia Pictures is offering this film to buy (link will never expire) for $6.99 or all three films (Toni Morrison & Whose Streets) opening this Friday for $15 starting Friday. These films are great tools for engaging and educating!

A New York Times Critics' Pick!

"A life altering work!" - New York Times

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and flood of rich archival material...

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Purchase Film Bundle HERE (I am not Your Negro, Toni Morrison, Whose Streets?) $15

Magnolia Pictures is offering this film to buy (link will never expire) for $6.99 or all three films (Toni Morrison & I Am Not Your Negro) opening this Friday for $15 starting Friday. These films are great tools for engaging and educating!

"Excellent. If you think you've heard too much about Ferguson, think again." - Chicago Tribune

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point...

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Purchase Film Bundle HERE (I am not Your Negro, Toni Morrison, Whose Streets?) $15

Magnolia Pictures is offering this film to buy (link will never expire) for $6.99 or all three films (Toni Morrison & I Am Not Your Negro) opening this Friday for $15 starting Friday. These films are great tools for engaging and educating!

"She spoke from a black woman's voice that heretofore had been silenced and shamed; she was able to magnify and give voice to our stories about common folk whose stories would have otherwise stayed buried!" - Oprah Winfrey on Toni MOrrison for the New York Times

An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio, to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis...

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Celebrate Rialto Cinemas 20th Anniversary with 10 or 20 weeks of our delicious popcorn! For a limited time, Rialto Cinemas Elmwood and Rialto Cinemas Cerrito are offering an advance-purchase "Popcorn Pass"...

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"Cinematic comfort food of the first order!" – Variety

Featuring extensive interviews with Diana Kennedy and famed chefs José Andrés, Rick Bayless, Gabriela Camara and Alice Waters, Diana Kennedy provides an intimate look at the leading expert on Mexican cuisine...

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Free Live Q&A Tue, May 26 6pm with Terence Blanchard and director Michael Murphy, joined by Ben Jaffe, Creative Director of Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Ben's parents founded the Hall, and he has carried on their vision proudly and well. Click HERE for Q&A!

Tip your hat to jazz music and the recently cancelled annual Jazz Fest in New Orleans with Michael Murphy's omnibus celebration of the music that shaped the culture of New Orleans in UP FROM THE STREETS.

"Sydney Sweeney's performance, Andrew Karu's cinematography, Emily E.A. Baker's sets, and Katy Jarzebowski's Hitchcockian score are breathtakingly elegant!" - Playlist

A heartbroken woman becomes entangled with a younger girl after breaking into her ex's lake house in the Pacific Northwest...

"The Booksellers is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that contains the world." – Variety

Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle...

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$12, 5-Day Rental

"CRITIC'S PICK. Bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long. It refreshes the eyes and the mind"
— New York Times

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent...

We've had many patrons contact us asking how to help our theatre during this challenging time as we try and keep Rialto Cinemas afloat while the theatres are closed. Your support by purchasing GIFT CARDS for future use is the ticket! You can buy one for your family, friends or yourself to use! Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to seeing you at the movies in the future!!

Gift Cards are available in any amount ($20 minimum) and are good for both tickets and refreshments. Give the gift of movies and popcorn!

Join us for virtual first run moviegoing and support Rialto Cinemas!

A portion of each rental goes towards our operation costs until we can reopen!

We at Rialto Cinemas stand against violence, oppression and racism.

We join all those who mourn the senseless loss of life and who work to build a more just world.

We see you. We hear you. We share in the collective call to action against systemic racism.

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