Here is a listing of all adult films showing at The Rio during February, compiled from the Rio website www.riocinema.org.uk

Main Features

Friday 12 February for 2 weeks

A SINGLE MAN (12A)

(US 2009) dir. Tom Ford 101m. Digital. Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode, Jon Kortajarena, Paulette Lamori, Ryan Simpkins, Ginnifer Goodwin.

A striking directorial debut from controversial fashion designer Tom Ford with the performance of a lifetime from Colin Firth. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it's the story of George Falconer (Firth), a college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim. A series of events and encounters over just one day ends with a life-changing decision. Charley (Julianne Moore) is his closest friend, but she too is wrestling with her own doubts about the future. Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), a young student coming to terms with his sexuality, sees George, his teacher, as a kindred spirit.

Friday 26 February for 2 weeks

MICMACS (12A)

(France 2009) dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet 104m. Subtitles. Digital. Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Yolande Moreau, Omar Sy, Dominique Pinon.

Classic film noir and silent comedy are the starting points for a flight of visual imagination that knows no bounds as AMELIE director Jean Pierre-Jeunet brings his inimitable brand of magical realism to a comic tale of revenge. Orphaned at a tender age when his father is killed by a landmine, video store clerk Bazil (Dany Boon) himself becomes the accidental victim of a shooting. Unexpectedly surviving the incident, Bazil is determined to bring down the multinational arms manufacturers who have caused him so much misery. With some help from his friends, a band of misfits with some very strange, but useful, talents, he embarks on an over-the top series of escapades each of which is more elaborate and entertaining than the last.

Sunday Matinees

Sunday 7 February • Relationships and Discoveries Double Bill

AWAY WE GO (15) 2.00

(US/UK 2009) dir. Sam Mendes 98m. Digital. John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Maggi Gyllenhaal, Melanie Lynskey.

The comedic twists and turns in thirty-somethings Burt and Verona's journey across modern America. In the search to find their perfect home the longtime couple set off to visit friends and family in order to find their perfect home before the birth of their first child. The result is a humorous, witty, touching and beautifully acted journey of discovery as the couple search out old friends and reconnect with long lost relatives.

+ AN EDUCATION (12A) 4.00

(UK 2009) dir. Lone Scherfig 100m. Digital. Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Emma Thompson.

Nick Hornby's adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of teenage seduction wittily captures the time and the place. In 1960s London suburbia, bright, pretty and hard-working 16-year old Jenny Mellor is focused on achieving her father's goal: a place at Oxford. But Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin, and with the arrival of the urbane, witty and twice her age David Goldman, it does.

£8.50/£6.50 Concs

Sunday 14 February • Valentine's Day Double Bill

ANNIE HALL (15) 2.00

(US 1977) dir. Woody Allen 92m. Woody Alllen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane

Woody Allen was never better than as neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer, who re-examines his complicated and now broken romance with the ditsy would-be nightclub singer Annie Hall. Beating STAR WARS to the Best Picture Oscar, this iconic and still glorious romantic comedy remains fabulously undated, forever imitated, and Allen's first love letter to New York.

+ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (PG) 4.00

(US 1961) dir.Blake Edwards 114m. Digital. Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney.

Almost 50 years after its original release, Audrey Hepburn still sparkles as Holly Golightly - a charming, wild and amoral 'free spirit' with an underlying romantic streak - who finds herself the object of dashing aspiring writer Paul Varjak's desire. A near perfect blend of comedy, romance, and minor tragedy,

£8.50/£6.50 Concs

Sunday 21 February • A Tribute to Eric Rohmer

A WINTER'S TALE (12) 1.45

(France 1992) dir. Eric Rohmer 114m. Subtitles. Frederic Van Dren Driessche, Charlotte Very, Michel Voletti, Herve Furic.

A witty adult fairy tale from the great romantic philosopher of the French New Wave. After an intense but whirlwind holiday romance, Felicie and Charles lose contact. Five years later and Felicie is unable to commit to either of her two current pursuers, because of a premonition that someday she will again find Charles, her one true love and unknowing father of her child.

+ THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON (12) 4.10

(France/Italy/Spain 2007) dir. Eric Rohmer 109m. Subtitles. Andy Gillet, Stephanie Crayencour, Veronique Reymond, Cecile Cassel, Rodolphe Pauly.

Rohmer's final masterpiece is a witty elegant tale of love, faith, jealousy, desire and cross-dressing set in a land of myth. When Astrea is led to believe that Celadon has been unfaithful to her, she banishes him for her sight forever - but Celadon finds the perfect disguise to win back his lover's affections. It's funny, touching, fearless and magical and a fitting farewell from a film maker whose work was filled with many such cinematic and sensuous delights.

£8.50/£6.50 Concs

Sunday 28 February • Malice and Foreboding Double Bill

LE CORBEAU (PG) 1.30

(France 1943) dir.Henri-Georges Clouzot 91m. Subtitles. Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson.

A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town - with the main focus of attention being the town's doctor, Remy Germain, a man with a mysterious past. Accused of being an abortionist and adulterer, Germain will be run out of town unless he can uncover the true identity of the unknown letter writer. A masterly suspense thriller that captures the reality of life during the German occupation and the paranoid culture that went with it.

+  THE WHITE RIBBON (15) 3.30

(Austria/Germany/France/Italy 2009) dir. Michael Haneke 144m. Subtitles. Digital. Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Leonard Praxouf, Leonie Benesch, Rainer Bock, Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi.

1913, the eve of World War I. A village in northern Germany is a microcosm of the hierarchical world outside. Strange and macabre accidents occur and it begins to look as if some sort of punishment ritual is being enacted. But who is responsible? The schoolteacher observes, investigates and edges towards the truth. Told with the same chilling brilliance and icy exactitude as Haneke's HIDDEN this Cannes Palme d'Or prizewinner is a masterly and audacious portrait of a time and place in history that also offers an insight into horrors still to come.

£8.50/£6.50 Concs

Late Shows

Saturday 13 February

SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL (15) 11.15pm

(UK 2010) dir. Mat Whitecross 115m. Digital. Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris, Olivia Williams, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook.

The story of Ian Dury, stricken with polio as a child and battler with alcoholism and troubled relationships as an adult but who, defying all expectations, became one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.

£7

Saturday 20 February

NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN (15) 11.15pm

(UK 2010) dirs. Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace 104m. Digital. Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree.

Blur reunited after a nine year split. Intimate and frank new interviews with the band members recall the highs and lows: from Colchester origins, through the heady Britpop years and on to the present with he band's triumphant headline return at Glastonbury and Hyde Park. Exceptional live concert footage is combined with some fascinating archive material that even includes Damon Albarn's school play performances as well as early gig footage, television appearances and backstage video.

£7

Saturday 27 February

BURLESQUE UNDRESSED (15) 11.15pm

(UK 2009) dir. Alison Grist 89m. Digital. Immodesty Blaize, Marc Almond, Peter Blake.

Prepare to be dazzled by an ocean of feathers, fans, corsets, sequins, and rhinestones as Britain's very own Immodesty Blaize unveils the lavish and dazzling world of Burlesque with an entertaining mix of seductive live performance and hilarious interviews and anecdotes from peek-a-boo legends past and present.

£7

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