Rialto Cinemas is proud to be the East Bay’s home for two incredible series of documentaries highlighting the work of specific artists and exhibits from the world’s finest museums.  These films provide a cinematic immersion into some of the world’s best loved art shown in extraordinary detail that only HD can capture.

Exhibition On Screen

VERMEER: THE GREATEST EXHIBITION

Wednesday, April 26 1 & 7pm
Tuesday, May 16 1pm

In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history..

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a BalanceMORE INFO

Wednesday, April 26

Tuesday, May 16

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MARY CASSATT: PAINTING THE MODERN WOMAN

Tuesday, May 9 1pm

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.

Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted… MORE INFO

Tuesday, May 9

Exhibition On Screen

TOKYO STORIES

A thrilling encounter with one of the world’s great art capitals.

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-new artworks that were created on the streets… MORE INFO

Wednesday, May 31 1 & 7pm
Tuesday, June 13 1pm