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.

ATONEMENT (15)

(UK 2007) dir. Joe Wright 123m.
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave.

Dazzling adaptation of Ian McEwan's award winning novel.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination, the consequences following them through World War II. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire life. With committed performances and a wonderful screenplay by Christopher Hampton, ATONEMENT is a dazzlingly impressive decade-spanning tour-de-force.

THE LADY VANISHES (U)

(UK 1938) dir. Alfred Hitchcock 96m.
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Basil Radford, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Naunton Wayne, Googie Withers.

Hitchcock' s witty and devilish comedy-thriller with Margaret Lockwood investigating the disappearance of charming old spinster Dame May Whitty, who has seemingly vanished into thin air aboard a train. Against the background of a Europe on the verge of war, a complex web of mystery is suspensively unravelled by a delightful assortment of English eccentrics. Pure Hitchcock. Pure delight.