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| The midnight movie lives on in Dalston! Venture forth from your home cinema cocoon, or your laptop, to savour the delights of cult movies, forbidden pleasures and dark thrills on the big screen in the comfort of the Rio's atmospheric art deco auditorium. Ticket prices for these shows are £6.50 in December and £7 from 1 January (except where stated). And if you fancy hosting your own late show, why not choose a film (subject to availability) for a Friday or Saturday late night show on a date of your choice. You need to be a Friend of the Rio (cost £20) and the cost of the late show is £300 (including VAT) which includes admission for up to 50 guests. The screening will also be open to the public, at our regular late night admission price of £7. Other options including private screenings are also possible. For further details contact Charles at charles@riocinema.org.uk or on 7241 9415. |
SAT 5 Dec • George Binette's Birthday Party Late Night Show DON'T LOOK NOW (15) 11.30pm (Italy/UK 1973) dir. Nicolas Roeg 110m. A macabre short story by Daphne du Maurier is transformed into a dazzling eerie and erotic psycho-thriller by director Nicolas Roeg. Grieving for the death of their young daughter after a tragic accident, John and Laura Baxter have moved to Venice to hopefully start a new life. A chance meeting with a pair of elderly sisters who claim to be psychic and John's own fragmented and disturbing premonitions coincide with a series of murders in the city... One of the most daring and influential movies of the 1970s. £6.50
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FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (15) 11.30pm (US 1986) dir. John Hughes 103m. Digital. Classic entertainment from the master of adolescent angst, the late John Hughes. Ferris Bueller is the most popular guy in school – girls want to date him, guys want to be him. Deciding to skip school for the day with his best friend and girlfriend, and armed with a 'borrowed' Ferrari, the trio unleash chaos on downtown Chicago, culminating with those levels of fantastical fun that could only happen in a John Hughes world. A much-loved gem for any child of the 80s! £6.50 |
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UNMADE BEDS (15) 11.15pm (UK 2009) dir. Alexis Dos Santos 93m. Digital. Axl arrives in the UK to look for his long-lost father and quickly discovers a free-spirited East End lifestyle, pubs with bands and French heartbreaker Vera. An idiosyncratic and atmospheric anti-romance, with a great soundtrack featuring Kimya Dawson, Tindersticks and Good Shoes - it's this year's coolest paen to good music, bad hangovers and lost love. £6.50 |
SAT 9 Jan • Amber Djemal’s 50th Birthday Late Night Show THELMA & LOUISE (15) 11.30pm (US/France 1991) dir. Ridley Scott 129m. Digital. Movie dynamite as two women hit the road on a journey of self-discovery and a meeting with the young Brad Pitt. With an uncompromising, brilliantly idiosyncratic script and great performances from Sarandon and Davis, this is the classic American road movie turned upside down. The finale remains as moving and controversial as it was thirty years ago. £7 |
SAT 16 Jan • Darwin, Evolution & the Movies Late Night Double Bill THE FLY 1958 (PG) 11.30pm (US 1958) dir. Kurt Neumann. 92m. Digital. A brilliant scientist becomes obsessed with perfecting a device that can transmit matter from one location to another. But when he uses himself as a human guinea pig, an ordinary housefly makes the journey with him... It's a chilling story of a man fighting to retain his humanity, and who better to play it for all its worth than the legendary Vincent Price. + THE FLY 1986 (18) (US 1986) dir. David Cronenberg 96m. Digital. Cronenberg's loose reworking puts the emphasis on the science behind the theory of the original mind over matter nightmare and makes the terror more graphically real. The great Jeff Goldblum is now the scientist who watches helplessly as he is transformed step by step into a living, grotesque mutant – incredibly agile, super strong and driven by insane appetites he cannot control. + intro from film-maker, Darwinist and Guardian Evolutionary Agony Aunt Carole Jahme £7 |
SAT 23 Jan • Tom Kelly's Birthday Party Late Show CASABLANCA (U) 11.30pm (US 1946) dir. Michael Curtiz 102m. Digital. Voted the most romantic film of all time by a TCM poll, this is also surely one of the greatest films ever made. Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband, Czech freedom fighter Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), wander into Rick's Cafe in Casablanca. The two are on the run from the Nazis, and have come to the American-owned nightspot to lie low. Little does Ilsa know that the cafe is run by Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the one true love of her life. When the two see each other, sparks fly, and memories of an enchanted time in Paris come flooding back. £7 |
 FRI 29 Jan * Late Night Charity screeningFuture Cinema, the creators of Secret Cinema, in association with the youth charity Fairbridge and Icon Distribution, presents PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE (15) 11.30pm (US 2009) dir. Lee Daniels 110m. Digital. Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz. Adapted from the work of one-time Harlem teacher and poet Sapphire, this is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones, played by Gabby Sidibe in a heartbreaking, award-winning debut performance. An overweight teenager from Harlem, Precious daydreams of escaping her never-ending circle of abuse, suffering her mother Mary's (a frighteningly convincing Mo'Nique) daily routine of oppression and cruelty. Pregnant for the second time, she finds support in the form of teacher Ms Rain and social worker Ms Wiess. This element of hope from these two women who want better for her underpins Precious's heartrending journey. A courageous and uncompromising film that looks set to sweep the board throughout the 2010 awards season. Check out the trailer at: http://www.weareallprecious.com/ N.B. PRECIOUS will also be the Rio's main feature from Friday 5 February for one week. Working out of 15 centres in the UK, Fairbridge is a national charity supporting young people aged 13-25 to develop the confidence, motivation and skills they need to turn their lives around. http://www.fairbridge.org.uk/ With special live music introduction and other happenings this is set to be a truly unique cinema event. £5 (with all profits going to Fairbridge) |
SAT 30 Jan • Darwin, Evolution & the Movies Late Night Show A.I. (12A) 11.30pm (US 2001) dir. Steven Spielberg 146m. After 15 years work on the project by Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg picked up an ambitious realisation of a futuristic fairy tale that questions the very nature of that which we call life... In a future world, where the polar ice caps have melted and all coastal cities of the world have been drowned, humans have created realistic robots to serve them. David is one of these robots, an artificial child yearning to become human to win back the love of the adoptive mother who abandoned him. + intro from film-maker, Darwinist and Guardian Evolutionary Agony Aunt Carole Jahme £7 |
SAT 12 Dec • Late Show
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