NOW STREAMING: from Rio Cinema (05 FEB+)
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There are many ways to support your favourite indie screen venue during shutdown (whilst also having a good time!). One of our favourites is to step aside from our usual streaming subscriptions to stream something that genuinely gives money back to the venues we’re all currently excluded from.
In the next in our series of posts looking at what’s streaming from London’s favourite indie cinemas, we have a look at the Rio Cinema, a venue we know well from some very early hours projecting midnight movies with our wonderful friend Ranjit S. Ruprai aka SUPAKINO back in 2019 (see our archive of MIDNIGHT EXCESS for info).
Rio Cinema Online offers a range of new releases (scroll down for a roundup of what’s there right now) and a handpicked selected of themed programmes. Currently streaming in the latter are queer cinema (titles include MONSOON, THE WATERMELON WOMAN, & SAUVAGE to be joined soon by 1985, AND THEN WE DANCED, & TOM OF FINLAND); 5 star features (which we presume to mean ‘critically acclaimed’ rather than featuring the 1980s family pop combo… including ETERNAL BEAUTY, FALLING + Q&A, THE JUNIPER TREE, SUMMER 1993, & RAY & LIZ); documentaries (including iHUMAN, THE MOLE AGENT, FANTASTIC FUNGI + Q&A, IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS, MANSFIELD 66/67); and, international cinema (including A GIRL FROM MOGADISHU, COCOON, ALICE, EASTERN, LOVE CHILD, & 3 FACES).
Some of the Rio’s films are streamed through Vimeo. It’s easy to set up an account.
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Quick links to the venue/box office.
SYNCHRONIC
d. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, 2019/USA
“Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan star as New Orleans paramedics who encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug. In a perfect storm of personal crises, their friendship and families are ripped apart by the mysterious pill’s bizarre effects.”
THE CAPOTE TAPES
d. Ebs Burnough, 2019/USA
“Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of NYC’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through never before heard audio archive and interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies, this intimate documentary reveals the rise and fall of America’s most iconic gay writer.”
COUP 53 + Q&As
d. Taghi Amirani, 2019/UK
“While making a documentary about the CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation,The English Patient) discover never seen before archive material hidden for decades. The 16mm footage and documents not only allow the filmmakers to tell the story of the overthrow of the Iranian government in unprecedented detail, but it also leads to explosive revelations about dark secrets buried for 67 years.”
THE ALLINS – ONE HELL OF A FAMILY
d. Sami Saifs, 2017/Denmark
“In New Hampshire, a legend is buried. GG Allin, the most outrageous singer in rock’n roll history. He was known for defecating on stage, fighting and having sex with the audience. He died a mythological death in 1993, aged 37. Directed by the award-winning director Sami Saif, THE ALLINS is a loving and entertaining look at the family of the departed rock singer.”
AWAY
d. Gints Zilbalodis, 2019/Latvia
“AWAY is about a boy travelling across an island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home. Along the way he makes a series of connections with different animals and reflects on the possible ways he ended up on the island. Part dream, part reality, AWAY explores our common, universal need to find a connection.”
RATED X
d. Tomas Jefanovas & Christopher Brett Bailey
“Rated X is an audio-visual project, the duo collaboration of Lithuanian video and sound artist Tomas Jefanovas and Canadian performer, writer and musician Christopher Brett Bailey. Tomas Jefanovas pulls futuristic visuals out of retrograde video technologies to sculpt a psychedelic vision of space and time. Christopher Brett Bailey rages and croons.”
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Saraband presents Queer Reflections on Horror + JENNIFER’S BODY at Rio Cinema (08 JUN 2023).
Irish Film London presents NOTHING COMPARES + Q&A with Kathryn Ferguson at Rio Cinema (03 MAY 2023)
Baby Lame presents MOMMIE DEAREST: HATE-ALONG at Rio Cinema (16 APR 2023)
Oliver Dickens presents two films by Kira Muratova to raise funds for Ukraine at Rio Cinema & Ciné Lumière (07 & 14 JUN 2022).
Rebel Reel Cine Club presents A CLOCKWORK ORANGE at Rio Cinema (11 MAR 2022)
Rebel Reel Cine Club presents WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGGOO? at Rio Cinema (02 MAR 2022).
Celebrate St. Brigid’s Day with Irish Film London (29 & 30 JAN 2022).
Jonathan Ali: The story of Perry Henzell’s NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME trailer (26 SEP 2021 at Rio Cinema).
The Twelve30 Collective presents NO PLACE LIKE HOME at Rio Cinema (26 SEP 2021)
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