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 £7.50 (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 £320 (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 £7.50 Other options including private screenings are also possible. For further details contact Charles at charles@riocinema.org.uk or on 7241 9415.

SAT 4 Feb • Late Night

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (12A) 11.30pm

(US 2011) dir. Guy Ritchie 129m. Digital.
Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Jared Harris.

The World's Greatest Detective and his constant companion return to take on the World's Greatest Criminal Mind. Professor Moriarty's latest scheme has global implications and Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law) need to enlist the help of brother Mycroft (Stephen Fry) and the exotic Sim (Noomi Rapace). It's all stylish, fast moving and fun with a fitting finale.

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 11 Feb • Late Night

ELECTION (15) 11.30pm

(US 1999) dir. Alexander Payne. 103m.
Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell.

Satire at its clever and witty best in a scathing cult comedy of ambition, corruption and desire. High-school teacher Matthew Broderick regards pathologically overachieving student Reese Witherspoon with a mixture of lust and loathing. Twists and turns aplenty ensue when he encourages a dim but popular, athlete Chris Klein to run against her in the election for student-council president. A sharp and cutting delight from the director of THE DESCENDANTS.

£7.50

SAT 18 Feb • Late Night Cigarette Burns Cinema

DEEP RED (18) 11.30pm

(Italy 1975) dir. Dario Argento 126m. Digital.
David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Meril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra.

The herrings are as red as the blood in horror maestro Dario Argento's surreal masterpiece (showing in an uncut version). An English jazz pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal hatchet murder of a renowned psychic. With the help of reporter Gianna, he follows a twisted trail of deranged clues that lead to a shocking climax. A throbbing Goblin soundtrack is just one of the pleasures along the way.

Trailer

+ dj set after screening!

£7.50

SAT 25 Feb • Late Night Little Film Club

Little Joe presents

THEOREM (Teorema) (15) 11.30pm

(Italy 1968) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini 98m. Subtitles.
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti.

Little Joe, a magazine about queers and cinema, mostly, launches A Little Film Club at the Rio with a late night screening of Pasolini's controversial masterpiece. Enigmatic Adonis Terence Stamp walks into the life of a typically bourgeois Italian family – father, mother, daughter, son and maid – who eerily accept his presence, and proceeds to seduce them one by one. The experience is life-changing for everyone in this cool witty and provocative parable of family, class and sex.

Introduced by John David Rhodes author of 'Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome'

Little Joe's A Little Film Club is supported by Film London's Community Pilot Fund through National Lottery Funding on behalf of the BFI.

£7.50

N.B. Tickets for this screening cannot be booked in advance from the Rio box office, but only from Little Joe directly at http://littlejoeteorema.eventbrite.co.uk/

FRI 2 Mar • Late Night

BLANK CITY (15) 11.30pm

(US 2011) dir Celine Danhier. 96m. Digital.
Jim Jarmusch, Eric Mitchell, Beth B, Lizzie Borden, Amos Poe.

Before HD there was Super 8; before Independent film there was Underground Cinema and in the late 1970's and 80's downtown Manhattan was the epicentre of a new kind of explosive, confrontational and raw movie making world that bore witness to the rising East Village art and rock scenes and the birth of hip hop. Filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, Eric Mitchell, Beth B, Lizzie Borden and Amos Poe captured New York's gritty vibrance with dissonant tales and deadpan humour. BLANK CITY tells their story and succeeds in capturing the glorious and grungy creative energy of another age.

+ Q&A with Celine Dahnier

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 3 Mar • Late Night

BLOOD CAR (18) 11.30pm

(US 2007) dir. Alex Orr 76m. Digital.
Mike Brune, Anna Chlumsky, Katie Rowlett.

In the very near future, rocketing global petrol prices mean that nobody can afford to drive. Enter Archie, a vegan with a large libido, who accidentally discovers an alternative: human blood. Only problem is to maintain a continuous supply... Surreal, grim and hilariously gory, BLOOD CAR goes beyond its one joke premise with an incisive vision of the human condition in both present and future worlds.

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 10 Mar • Late Night Cigarette Burns Cinema in association with Ken Russell Forever

GOTHIC (18) 11.30pm

(UK 1986) dir. Ken Russell 83m.
Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Timothy Spall, Miriam Cyr.

The late, great Ken Russell creates his own monstrous fantasy with the story of the origins of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. During one stormy night at mad Lord Byron's country estate, the assembled guests conjure up dark tales from the drug induced nightmares and hallucinations that inhabit the expanding vortex of their minds. A certifiable masterpiece of visual delirium!

Trailer

+ dj set after screening!

£7.50

Ken Russell Forever complete programme: www.kenrussellforever.co.uk

INLAND EMPIRE (15) 11.30pm

(US 2006) dir. David Lynch. 180m. Digital.
Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Jeremy Irons.

David Lynch's amazing multi-layered epic of the surreal, the comic and the nightmarish comes complete with an alternative universe of strange time-shifting rooms, mysterious doors, Polish speaking criminals, mystic soothsayers and rabbit-masked humans. A Hollywood murder mystery offers some sort of plot and Laura Dern is sensational as the actress who dives off the deep end into a vortex of weird fantasy and disturbing reality.

£7.50

SAT 24 Mar • Late Night

CHINATOWN (15) 11.30pm

(US 1974) dir. Roman Polanski. 125m. Digital.
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Roman Polanski.

A legendary movie and a legendary performance. Jack Nicholson stars as hard-boiled private eye Jake Gittes hired by a mysterious woman to investigate the dark side of 1930's L.A. With a crackling hard-boiled script by Robert Towne, Polanski weaves a labyrinthine puzzle of bribery, corruption, treachery, deceit and the unthinkable... Faye Dunaway shimmers as a socialite with secrets of her own.

£7.50