Rialto Channel - Open 48 Hours!

Rialto Channel - Open 48 Hours!
Saturday 11 July & Sunday 12 July 2009

A reminder from the team at Rialto Channel (SKY Digital Channel 25) to make the most of the 48 hour showcase weekend, from Saturday 11 July – Sunday 12 July.

Rialto Channel is open for 48 hours to all SKY Digital residential subscribers to view festival favourites, Oscar-nominees and Oscar-winners. From midnight on Friday 10 July, a compelling range of feature films and documentaries can be viewed by SKY digital subscribers for 48 hours.

Highlights include:

Rialto Premiere
CASSANDRA’S DREAM
Directed by Woody Allen, Cassandra’s Dream stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as two brothers, both in dire financial straits, who agree to help their rich uncle sort out a whistle-blowing business associate.

World Cinema
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralysed body. 4 x Oscar-nominee directed by Julian Schnabel.

British Theatre
THE BAKER
Classic British comedy about a hit man who has second thoughts about his career and seeks refuge by finding work as a baker in a rural Welsh village.

Real View
SURFWISE
The inspiring, tumultuous, and fascinating documentary about 85-year old surfer, health advocate and sex guru, Dr. Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, his wife Juliette, and their nine children who were all
home-schooled and raised in a small camper on the beach.

Also screening over this weekend is the Oscar-nominee AWAY FROM HER, Oscar-winner THE COUNTERFEITERS, THE VALET, HALF NELSON and PRICELESS.

Visit the new look Rialto Channel website - www.rialtochannel.co.nz to view a showcase of all of the new films and documentaries premiering in your selected month, all year round!

ENDS

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