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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 £7 (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 3 Apr • Late Show repeat due to popular demand! (US 2008) dirs. Audrey Ewell & Aaron Aites 93m. Digital. Brought back for three consecutive Saturday late shows following the sell out premiere on 27 March. The previously unexplored realms of Norwegian black metal are discovered in this powerful documentary. The result of two years of research and filming, this is an enlightening portrait of the people behind a controversial and polarizing worldwide phenomenon. £7 |
SAT 10 Apr • Late Show repeat due to popular demand! (US 2008) dirs. Audrey Ewell & Aaron Aites 93m. Digital. Brought back for three consecutive Saturday late shows following the sell out premiere on 27 March. The previously unexplored realms of Norwegian black metal are discovered in this powerful documentary. The result of two years of research and filming, this is an enlightening portrait of the people behind a controversial and polarizing worldwide phenomenon. £7 |
SAT 17 Apr • Late Show repeat due to popular demand! (US 2008) dirs. Audrey Ewell & Aaron Aites 93m. Digital. Last chance to catch this cult documentary explporation of the previously unexplored realms of Norwegian black metal. The result of two years of research and filming, this is an enlightening portrait of the people behind a controversial and polarizing worldwide phenomenon. £7 |
SAT 24 Apr • East End Film Festival Late Show THE LAST BREATH (15) 11.30pm (UK 2009) dir. David Jackson 11m. Digital. A family seems to be the only survivors of an unexplained catastrophic event. But are they?
(Russia 2008) dir. Alexander Strizhenov 102m. Subtitles. The Midnite Horror Movie Russian style! Something Evil in a girl's school threaten a teacher's life and family. Young Darya Balabanova oozes pure menace as the pupil who plays with human lives and prompts her classmates to do the same. £7.50/£5.50 Concs |
FRI 30 Apr • London International Documentary Festival (LIDF) Late Show HIGH ON HOPE (15) 11.15pm (UK 2009) dir. Piers Sanderson 72m. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Acid House, the story of the infamous 'Hardcore Uproar' warehouse parties of 1989-91. From just 50 friends in a backstreet workshop these weekly parties grew to over 10,000 people dancing in cavernous warehouses across the north west of England as the music went from underground scene to being THE mass youth cult. £7 |
SAT 1 May • London International Documentary Festival (LIDF) Late Show DO IT AGAIN (15) 11.15pm (USA 2009) dir. Robert Patton-Spruill 88m. American newspaper reporter Geoff Edgers sets out to find the surviving members of legendary 1960's group The Kinks and then convince them to reunite. The mission turns into a meditation on the power of music and along the way his passion for The Kinks in particular is shared with such luminaries as Sting, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Weller and Robyn Hitchcock. £7 |
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SAT 8 May • Late Show
WHIP IT (12A) 11.15pm (US 2009 dir. Drew Barrymore 111m. Digital. Bliss Cavendah is an indie rock-loving misfit desperate to escape small-town Texas and the never-ending football matches and beauty pageants. On a fateful trip to an Austin shopping mall she discovers the all-girls roller derby league – could Bliss have found her true calling? Based on the novel ‘Derby Girl’, this smash hit initiation to the rough-and-tumble world of women's roller derby is packed full of guts and charm. £7
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VALHALLA RISING (15) 11.15pm (UK/Denmark 2009) dir. Nicolas Winding Refn. 100m. From the director of PUSHER and BRONSON comes a fantasy like no other, an extraordinary remix, both visually and narratively, of that ancient action, adventure and gore fest that is the traditional Viking saga. Mads Mikkelsen lives up to his name as the heavily-tattooed, one-eyed killing machine who joins a band of men wanting to introduce Christianity to Jerusalem. |
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KICK-ASS (15) 11.15pm (US/UK 2010) dir. Matthew Vaughn 117m. Digital. Dave Lizewski fades into the background of his high school, a bullied comic book fan and self-confessed loner. Then he conjures up a plan to emulate his literary idols – and despite no powers, training, or meaningful reason to do so, becomes ‘Kick-Ass’ – Dave’s alter-ego, crime-fighting superhero. Teen-comedy makes way for adult humour in this alternative comic book movie. £7 |
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US (18) 11.15pm
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