The Rio’s monthly Classic Matinees take place on the first or second Wednesday of the month. There is an interval for every film, and extra seating is provided in the foyer. We are delighted that thanks to funding from the Bridge House Trust we are able to offer free admission. We are also able to offer free tea and cake! Please come along and enjoy a film and a chat!

These screenings are also open to everyone else at normal weekday matinee ticket prices.

• WED 15 Oct 2.30

MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (PG)

(UK 2008) dir. Bharat Nalluri 92m.
Amy Adams, Frances McDormand, Lee Pace.

A sparkling champagne cocktail of a screwball comedy that affectionately recreates the high society life of 1930s London. Miss Pettigrew finds herself working as social secretary to budding young West End starlet Delysia Lafosse. In a mere twenty-four hours, she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of romance, glamour, extravagance, confusion, contrasts and Cole Porter songs.

• WED 12 Nov 2.30

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (PG)

(US, 1944) dir. Billy Wilder 107m.
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.

Billy Wilder's ultimate film noir in which MacMurray's insurance salesman is willingly trapped by Stanwyck's ultimate femme fatale. Based on James M Cain's pulp novel and with a screenplay co-written by Raymond Chandler, this is 1940's Hollywood at its greatest.