Oscar contenders being screened in next month's movie programme at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre
As ever, the spring film schedule at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre pays tribute to the Oscars, with all 10 Best Picture nominated films in the line-up.
Film programmer Steve Carley said: “March offers cinephiles a rare opportunity to see every Best Picture nomination in one place, embracing the diversity, artistic innovation and storytelling excellence that defined film las year.
“We have Yorgos Lanthimos’s genre-defying Bugonia, Brad Pitt in the high-octane F1: The Movie, deeply human dramedy in Marty Supreme, Guillermo del Toro’s bold reimagining of the classic tale of Frankenstein.
"Then there is the emotional and richly realised Hamnet, tense political thriller The Secret Agent, the delicate and affecting family drama Sentimental Value and Joel Egerton in the haunting Train Dreams.
"We also have the sweeping ensemble One Battle After Another and the most-nominated film in Oscars history, Sinners – a richly textured epic blending musical, supernatural and cultural themes.
“All this, plus the latest in Event Cinema: it promises to be quite a month.”
This year’s Academy Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on March 15.
Films at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in March and early April are:
Hamnet: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in the moving story of Agnes Hathaway and William Shakespeare mourning the death of their son.
The film is based on Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel of the same name.
Buckley has already won a Golden Globe and BAFTA for her performance.
She is favourite to pick up the Best Actress Oscar. In the same category are Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue; Emma Stone, Rose Byrne, If I had Legs I’d Kick You, and Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value.
Monday March 2, Wednesday March 4 at 7.45pm; Thursday March 5 at 1.45pm; Friday March 6 at 7.45pm and SaturdayBugonia; Rose March 7 at 2.45pm and 7.45pm.
The Royal Ballet: Giselle: Peter Wright’s production is a classic of the Royal Ballet repertory. It is a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.
Tuesday March 3 at 7.15pm.
Othello: Shakespeare’s tragedy rages to life like never before in an explosive new production filmed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
It stars David Harewood, who had an early role at the Stephen Joseph in 1992’s One Over the Eight, Toby Jones, Caitlin FitzGerald, Vinette Robinson and Luke Treadaway.
The epic story explores the darker side of power, rage and desire.
Thursday March 5 at 7pm and Friday March 6 at 1.45pm
Sentimental Value (Norwegian and Swedish with English subtitles): sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, film director Gustav, Stellan Skarsgård.
Monday March 9 and Tuesday March 10 at 7.45pm.
Exhibition on Screen: Turner and Constable: two of Britain’s greatest painters, JMW Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals.
Celebrating the 250th anniversaries of their births in 1775 and 1776, the new documentary explores their intertwined lives and legacies.
Wednesday March 11 at 7:45pm and Thursday March 12 at 1:45.
F1: The Movie: Brad Pitt is veteran racing driver Sonny Hayes, who returns after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate's underdog team from collapse.
Thursday March 12 at 7.15pm.
Sinners: with a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, this tale of twin former gangsters Smoke and Stack, Oscar-nominated Michael B Jordan, fighting the forces of evil in the 1930s deep south could be the movie of the year…
Monday March 16, Tuesday March 17 and Wednesday March 18 at 7.45pm.
Frankenstein: based on Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Guillermo del Toro’s visual beauty stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
Thursday March at 1.45pm and 7.15pm.
Dementia-friendly movie: Godspell (1973): a New-York-in-the-70s-set musical version of the Gospel of Matthew with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and starring Victor Garber, Katie Hanley and David Haskell.
Carers and family go free.
Friday March 20 at 1pm.
Moviedrome: Being There (1979): Peter Sellers plays Chance, a simple-minded gardener who becomes the trusted adviser of a wealthy and influential Washington insider.
Friday March 20 at 7.45pm.
Marty Supreme: Timothée Chalamet plays 1950s table tennis star Marty Mauser in his quest to become world champion.
Chalamet has also been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar,
Monday March 23, Tuesday March 24 and Wednesday March 25 at 7.15pm; Thursday March 26 at 1.45pm and 7.15pm.
Train Dreams: based on the much-loved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams tells the moving life story of logger Robert Grainier, Joel Egerton.
Monday 30 March at 7.45pm; Wednesday 1 April at 7.45pm (OC); Thursday 2 April at 1.45pm.
The Royal Opera: Siegfried (German with English subtitles): unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey bringing him face-to-face with a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...
Tuesday March 31 at 5.15pm.
The Secret Agent (Portuguese with English subtitles): the story of Armando, Oscar nominee Wagner Moura, a former professor caught in political turmoil in the midst of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Thursday April 2 at 7.15pm.
One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy action thriller inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti.
Leonard DiCaprio, in the running for a Best Actor Ocar, lost out on the Best Actor BAFTA to Robert Amaryo for his role in I Swear.
Friday April 3 at 1.45pm and 7.15pm; Saturday April 4 at 7.15pm.
Bugonia: Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest sees Emma Stone as a pharmaceutical company cheif executive kidnapped by two young men, Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, who believe she’s an alien out to destroy the Earth.
Saturday April 4 at 2.45pm.
To book tikets for the cinema, call the box office on 01723 370541 or visit the theatre’s website: www.sjt.uk.com