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Rialto Cinemas Elmwood is Berkeley's Only Independent Movie Theatre!

We feature a diverse mix of films including the best quality films from Hollywood and a wide array of independent and foreign films from around the world.

10/15/2026

👁️ YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING starts today at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood. Get your tickets online or in person at our box office.

10/14/2026

Noël Coward's FALLEN ANGELS comes to Rialto Cinemas Elmwood next THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 at 6:30PM, with an encore show on OCTOBER 25 at 1PM!

Sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously potent, FALLEN ANGELS, Noël Coward’s champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners, shocked and delighted audiences at its 1925 premiere. Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances—with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit. Old rivalries and past scandals bubble to the surface in this intoxicating romp from one of theatre’s comedy masters. Starring Golden Globe-winner Rose Byrne and Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara, with Tracee Chimo, Mark Consuelos (making his Broadway debut), Christopher Fitzgerald and Aasif Mandvi, this new Roundabout Theatre and Tony Award-winning production is ‘pure escapist fun’ (The New York Times).

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10/12/2026

After 55 years of secrecy and censorship, Ken Russell's legendary 1971 film THE DEVILS arrives in cinemas fully restored and remastered. The film begins this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, with an advance screening Thursday night at 8:25pm.

THE DEVILS remains one of cinema’s most transgressive and incendiary provocations, a feverish account of the Loudun possessions witchcraft trial in 17th-century France. Oliver Reed stars as Urbain Grandier, a wildly charismatic libertine priest who defies Cardinal Richelieu’s consolidation of power. Vanessa Redgrave’s Sister Jeanne is a sexually repressed, hunchbacked Abbess obsessed with Grandier with an intensity that ignites accusations of demonic possession among her convent’s nuns. Already a target for reprisals due to his political resistance, Grandier’s promiscuity eventually lands him on the wrong side of a powerful family.

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10/09/2026

Do you have strong feelings about concrete?

John Wilson's THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE is NOW PLAYING at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood!

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10/07/2026

"Through raw testimony from Israeli military personnel, NAZA is heartbreaking but essential viewing, questioning the systems that cause and quantify civilian death in modern warfare." -Toronto Star

"A shattering inquiry into Israel’s military actions in the war in Gaza... The new documentary NAZA is tough to watch, and impossible to ignore." -New York Times

"As a work of cinema, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism, it is inarguable. As a document, it is an indictment." -Time Out

NAZA, the new documentary from Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, opens this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood.

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10/06/2026

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, the new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, opens THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood! Tickets are on sale now!

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING.

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10/05/2026

TONIGHT - join us at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood for a special screening of the poignant and thought-provoking film COFFEE AND LANGUAGE, followed by Q&A with Director JP Allen and Producer Cathy Montosa!

Can you fall in love on the page? In COFFEE AND LANGUAGE, a man falls deeply in love with a novelist that he’s never met. He finds her at a coffeehouse and, despite her resistance, tells a mysterious and passionate story.

Mick LaSalle, movie critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, has called JP Allen "one of the city’s best unknown directors." Click the following link to read LaSalle's recent article on Allen's career.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/sf-filmmaker-jp-allen-22408407.php

10/01/2026

Same movie. Different truths. See DIGGER and decide for yourself.

DIGGER, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and starring Tom Cruise, opens TONIGHT at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood with an advance show at 7pm.

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09/30/2026

Join us on MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 at 6:30PM for a screening of COFFEE AND LANGUAGE, followed by Q&A with Director JP Allen and Producer Cathy Montosa!

Can you fall in love on the page?

In COFFEE AND LANGUAGE, a man falls deeply in love with a novelist that he’s never met. He finds her at a coffeehouse and, despite her resistance, tells a mysterious and passionate story. This is just one of several interlacing vignettes within filmmaker JP Allen's COFFEE AND LANGUAGE, hailed by Variety as a "brilliant" exploration of "words and ideas at their most liberating and emotionally striking."

Click the following link to read SF Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle's recent profile of JP Allen: https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/sf-filmmaker-jp-allen-22408407.php

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09/28/2026

THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE opens this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood.

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to tell this seemingly drab story and increase his movie’s appeal. But his foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry.

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2966 College Avenue At Ashby
Berkeley, CA
94705

Telephone

+15104339730

Website

http://www.rialtocinemas.com/elmwood

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