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 £275 (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 £6.50. Other options including private screenings are also possible. For further details contact Charles at charles@riocinema.org.uk or on 7241 9415.

• Sat 6 Oct 11.15pm

CONTROL (15)

(UK 2007) dir. Anton Corbijn 122m. Digital.
Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Toby Kebbell.

The story of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer/songwriter of Joy Division whose troubled personal and professional life ended in suicide at the age of 23. Photographer Anton Corbijn's wonderful first feature traces the musician's life from an isolated teenage world of poetry and song lyrics to his obsession for the woman who shared his life and his emergence into the Manchester music scene of the late 1970s. With spellbinding performances from both Sam Riley and Samantha Morton, CONTROL is a riveting, visually arresting portrait of the tormented soul who wrote 'Love Will Tear Us Apart,' his best known song and his epitaph.

£6.50

THIS FILTHY WORLD (15)

(USA 2006) dir. Jeff Garlin 86m.
John Waters.

John Waters, director of such outrageous cult classics as PINK FLAMINGOS and HAIRSPRAY displays his talents as a stand-up comedian on a New York theatre stage adorned with flower arrangements and garbage heaps. Subjects range from being gay to the many strange things people have asked him to autograph. It's all delighfully perverse and a triumph for the undisputed Pope of Trash.

£6.50

Fri 26 Oct • Late night shorts

Future Shorts (15) 11.15pm

The Future Shorts festival races into its new season this October with a hard-hitting and supremely stimulating collection of world cinema. Highlights include the multi award-winning Romanian masterpiece A TUBE WITH A HAT, rising director Dougal Wilson's fantastic Jarvis Cocker music video, a rock'n'roll love story in TROUT, as well as the recent winner at the legendary Sarajevo Film festival and many more.

TROUT
(UK 2007) dir. Johnny Barrington
Life for a young Scottish couple is altered after a bizarre chain of events.

A TUBE WITH A HAT
(Romania, 2006) dir. Radu Jude
Missing the tube with the hat, young Marian gets his dad up early to help fix the TV before the afternoon movie.

BARE
(India, 2006) dir. Santana Issar
A daughter’s search to find meaning, if any, in her relationship with her alcoholic father.

BECKENRAND
(Germany, 2006) dir. Michael Koch
The setting is a packed swimming pool at the height of summer. A group of teenagers catch the pool attendant’s attention and a confrontation leads to a tragic misunderstanding…

SPIDER
(Australia, 2007) dir. Michael Koch
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

DON’T LET HIM WASTE YOUR TIME
(UK 2006) dir: Dougal Wilson
Here's the clip for the smashing lead-track off Jarvis. You really shouldn't take driving tips from Mr. Cocker

+ a free beer with ticket

£6/£5 Concessions

Sat 27 Oct • Ghanaian Film Festival

A Goat's Tail (15) 11.15pm

(Ghana/UK 2006) dir. Julius Amedume 110m. Digital.
Godfrey Nortey, Lesley Cook, Simon James Morgan, Jason Ramsey, Paul Kwabena Akorfala, Danny John Jules.

Kojo is a taxi driver living and working in Ghana. Sleeping on his break he is awakened by Cynthia, a beautiful young traveling actress. She’s in Ghana for the day and hires Kojo to show her some tourist attractions. The day ends with a sexual encounter and a reluctant promise from Cynthia to invite Kojo to England. Four months later Kojo arrives on Cynthia’s doorstep. Filled with ambitions of making money and fulfilling his dreams of succeeding as a poet, he soon finds out that the grass isn’t greener on the other side and people are not what they seem.

+ Q&A with Julius Amedume

Admission free

Sat 3 Nov • Ghanaian Film Festival

DIGITALIS (PG) 11.15pm

(UK 2003) dir. Robert 'Beyonder' Asare 5m.

This afro futurist musical short is a mixture of creative photography and spoken word.
Nominated Best Short Film, Black Filmmakers International Film Festival, 2002; Best Short on DV, The Raindance Film Festival, 2002.

+ LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY (PG)

(UK 1995) dir. John Akomfrah 45m.

The film that started Afro Futurism. A sci fi drama-documentary on Afro-futurism and black unpopular culture. A computer hacker enters a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for secrets of his future. From Africa to the moon and back. THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY takes us on a voyage, from the margins of black culture to its interstellar heart. The film charts a new interface, striking up connections and dialogues between diverse black interstellar parties who have so much in common, and yet for the most part remain unaware of each other's existence. THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY features some of the great Star travellers in music and literature  of our times, from Sun Ra to Nichelle Nichols, George Clinton to Lee Perry, A Guy Called Gerald, Goldie and Underground Resistance. Its an interstellar star gig!

Winner: Prix Paul Robeson For Cinema, FESPACO Film Festival, Burkina Faso, 1996.

Admission free

Future Shorts (15) 11.15pm

The Future Shorts festival rolls into November with a strong and diverse line-up including the BAT FOR LASHES video for hit record WHAT'S A GIRL TO DO? , multi-festival award-winner MILAN from Germany and many more wonderful films from around the world.    

YOUTH
(UK 2007) dir. Jane Linfoot
Youth is comprised of three observational vignettes. Filmed in a naturalistic style, this short focuses on the minutiae of adolescence.
    
WHAT'S A GIRL TO DO? / BAT FOR LASHES
(UK 2007) dir. Dougal Wilson
Giant mascot headed BMXers pedal, hop and twist in sync to the subtle pulsing break beats of this trip hop masterpiece by Bat for Lashes.
    
MONKEYLOVE
(Japan 2005) dir. Royston Tan
In the winter landscape of Hokkaido, a guy in a monkey suit is searching for lost love. A meditation on life and art, love and longing, "Monkey Love" is lyrical, enigmatic, pensive, whimsical and spare - like a haiku.
    
T.O.M
(UK 2006) dir. Tom Brown and Daniel Gray
The journey of a young boy.
    
OH GREAT, NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED
(Netherlands 2007) dir. Gerbrand Burger and Tijmen Hauer
A compelling and enigmatic impression of an unexpected and strange event.
    
LIVING IN THE DARK
(Australia 2005) dir. Thomas Leung
A young man remembers a childhood with a blind father and his own temporary sunglasses.
    
MILAN
(Serbia 2007) dir. Michaela Kezele
Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO air raids: two brothers are making plans to go and play hide-and-seek in the forest.
    
COPENHAGEN CYCLES
(US 2005) dir. Eric Dyer
A cyclist travels through a fantastical, collaged reconstruction of Denmark's capital city.

+ a free beer with ticket

+ a free beer with ticket

£6/£5 Concessions

Sat 24 Nov • Late night show

Kinosound presents Nosferatu Revamped!

NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (PG) 11.30pm

(Germany 1922) dir. FW Murnau 93m.
Max Schreck, Greta Schröder.
Silent, with live electronic soundtrack by Nacho Martin.

A rare opportunity to catch Nacho Martin back at the Rio with the first film he ever scored here, NOSFERATU starring Max Schreck as the bat-eared, rat-toothed vampire bringing plague to Dalston. For this one-off screening he will be joined on stage by Tara Jaff, playing live harp amongst the decks and electronics, while exotic aerialist Leo Hedman will perform from the rafters. Ticket includes a free drink on arrival. Book now... for the dead travel fast!

www.kinosound.co.uk

£7.50/£5.50