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 Big Lottery's Reaching Communities Programme we are able to offer free admission. We are delighted that thanks to funding from the Big Lottery's Reaching Communities Programme we are able to offer free admission for the Over 60's! Please come along and enjoy a film and a chat!

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

ONE DAY (12A)

(UK 2011) dir. Lone Scherfig 108m.
Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Georgia King, Jodie Whittaker.

This adaptation of David Nicholls' much-loved best-selling novel is the delightfully romantic tale of two opposites: Emma, a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place and Dexter, a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. They meet as students on 15 July 1988 and so begins a friendship that will last a lifetime. We meet them again on the anniversary of that date over the next 23 years to catch up with their divergent lives and loves. But will they ever realise that they belong together? An equally loved Dalston landmark makes a cameo appearance!

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• WED 11 Jan 2.30

MEET ME IN ST LOUIS (U) 2.30

(US 1944) dir. Vincente Minnelli. 113m. Digital
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Tom Drake , Marjorie Main.

One of the greatest of all the MGM musicals is the romantic, nostalgic and tuneful tale of the Smith family of St. Louis Missouri set at the time of the 1903 Worlds Fair. Seventeen year old Esther has just fallen in love with the boy next door when her father announces that the family is going to move to New York. With a star performance from Judy Garland and such evergreen musical numbers as 'The Boy Next Door', 'The Trolley Song', 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' and of course the title song, this is a slice of vintage Hollywood at the peak of perfection. All together now, "Meet me in..."

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