Fashion, futuristic living, a king’s story, ballet and a classic musical
Film programme at the Stephen Joseph Theatre includes Carousel, Leonard Cohen’s most famous song, Jacques Tati comedy and Christmas ghosts
The best of British, a French classic, music, art and comedy are all on the silver screen at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre in November. The Stephen Joseph’s film programmer, Steve Carley, said: “We’ve got the best of female British acting talent on our screen this November, with Florence Pugh in Don’t Worry Darling, Leslie Manville in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, Emma Mackey in Emily, Sally Hawkins in The Lost King, and Emilia Clark in NT Live's production of The Seagull – plus the national treasure that is Bill Nighy in what reviewers are calling a career-best performance in Living.
“We also have our monthly Moviedrome screening, introduced by George Cromack – this time it’s Jacques Tati's 1967 masterpiece, Playtime."
Films at the Stephen Joseph in November are:
Don’t Worry Darling: Alice, Florence Pugh, and Jack, Harry Styles, live in the idealised community of Victory, an experimental company town housing men who work for the secret Victory Project and their families.
When cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, Alice starts to question what they’re doing in Victory.
Tuesday November 1, Wednesday November 2 at 7pm; Thursday November 3 at 2pm
NT Live: The Seagull (live streaming): Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut in this 21st-century retelling of Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.
A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams lie in tatters, hopes are dashed, and hearts broken. With nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other.
Thursday November 3 at 7pm Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (film): The story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have it.
She works, starves and gambles to raise money, then embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook but the future of the House of Dior.
Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs and Lesley Manville star in this new adaptation of the Paul Gallico novel.
Friday November 4, Saturday November 5 at 2pm and 7pm; Tuesday November 8and Wednesday November 9 at 7pm;
Thursday November 10 at 2pm,
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song: This feature-length documentary explores the life of the great singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his best-known song Hallelujah.
Thursday November 10 at 7pm.
Emily: The imagined life of one of the world's most famous authors, Emily stars Emma Mackey as rebel and misfit Emily Brontë.
Friday November 11 at 2pm and 7pm; Monday Novmber 14, Tuesday November 15 at 7pm; Thursday November 17 at 2pm.
ROH Live: The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration (live streaming): A showcase demonstrating the breadth and
diversity of The Royal Ballet’s repertory in classical, contemporary and heritage works. It will include world premieres of short ballets by choreographers Pam Tanowitz, Joseph Toonga and Valentino Zucchetti as well as The Royal Ballet’s first performance of For Four by artistic associate Christopher Wheeldon and George Balanchine’s Diamonds.
Wednesday November 16 at 7.15pm
The Lost King: In 2012 the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search was led by amateur historian Philippa Langley, Sally Hawkins, whose research had been met by scepticism from academics.
The Lost King is the life-affirming true story of a woman who took on the country's most eminent historians.
Friday November 18, Saturday November19 at 2pm and 7pm; Monday November 21, Tuesday November 22 at 7pm; Thursday November 24 at 7pm.
Tim Minchin: BACK (event cinema): After selling out his international tour in recordbreaking time and receiving rave audience reviews, multiaward-winning musician, comedian, writer and composer Tim Minchin is bringing his latest stage tour, BACK, to the big screen.
Wednesday November 23 at 7pm.
Carousel (film, dementiafriendly screening): Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about carnival barker Billy, Gordon MacRae who marries Julie, Shirley Jones. He loses his job just as they learn that she’s pregnant and, desperate to provide for his family, is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Features You’ll Never Walk Alone.
Friday November 25 at 1pm Moviedrome: Playtime: Jacques Tati’s great comedy character Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but gets lost in the maze of modern architecture filled with the latest technical gadgets.
Friday November 25 at 7pm Living: Based on Kurosawa’s 1952 classic Ikiru, and scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro, the stylish film stars Bill Nighy as a man determined in the time he has left to wake from his slumber and make a mark on the world.
Saturday November 26 at 2pm and 7pm; Wednesday November 30 at 7pm; Thursday December
1 at 2pm and 7pm
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (live streaming): Mark Gatiss stars as Jacob Marley alongside Nicholas Farrell as Scrooge in this Nottingham Playhouse production. Prepare to be frightened and delighted in equal measure as you enter a supernatural Victorian world. Monday November 28 at 7pm Cézanne: Portraits of a Life (Exhibiton on Screen): Filmed at the National Portrait Gallery in London, with additional interviews from experts from MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and correspondence from the artist himself, the film goes to the places Cézanne lived and worked. Introduced by Martha Cattell from Crescent Arts.
Tuesday November 29 at 7pm.
Cinema tickets at the Stephen Joseph for films are £8 (concessions £7; Circle members/NHS/under-30s £6); for Exhibition on Screen films, £12; for event cinema, live and delayed live streamings, £18.
Dementia-friendly films: as above, and carers go free.
Box office on 01723 370541, or visit the theatre’s website: www. sjt.uk.com