Let’s dance with Footloose, watch Sound of Music and debate God with Freud
Classics, award-winners, a documentary, drama, comedy the bizarre and sublime – Stephen Joseph Theatre unveils its big screen programme for next month
Drama, documentaries and dance are on the big screen at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next month. Film programmer, Steve Carley said: “To kick off the school holidays we have Inside Out 2 which returns to the mind of now-teenage Riley.
"The eagerly anticipated new film from Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness, follows last year's Oscar winner Poor Things. July also launches our Let’s Dance season: 10 films that bring the art of dance to life through the magic of cinema. Screening every weekend through the summer, we kick off with the 40th anniversary of the legendary Footloose.”
Films at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in July are:
Hard Miles: a prison social worker, Matthew Modine, assembles a cycling team of teenage convicts and takes them on a transformative 1,000-mile ride.
Monday July 1, Tuesday, July 2, Wednesday, July 3 at 7.45pm; Thursday, July 4 at 1.45pm.
Strike: An Uncivil War: on 18 June 1984, at the height of the miners’ strike, Orgreave in South Yorkshire saw of the bloodiest day of the longest and most violent industrial dispute in British history. This new documentary tells the story of what became known as the Battle of Orgreave.
Thursday, July 4 at 7.45pm; Friday, July 5 at 1.45pm.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die: when their former captain is implicated in corruption, two Miami police officers, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, work to clear his name in this fourth installment in the Bad Boys series.
Friday, July 5 at 7.45pm; Saturday, July 6 at 2.45pm; Monday, July 8, Tuesday, July 9 at 7.45pm.
Let’s Dance!: Footloose (1984): the first in our summer season of dance movies, Footloose – now 40 years old! – tells the story of Ren, Kevin Bacon, a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town, where he attempts to overturn the local minister’s ban on dancing. Saturday, July 6 at 7.45pm. Rose (Danish with English subtitles): Sofie Grabol and Lene Maria Christensen star as sisters Inger and Ellen who take a bus tour to France.
Wednesday, July 10 at 7.45pm; Thursday, July 11 at 1.45pm.
Dance Revolutionaries: new documentary from Emmynominated director David Stewart exploring the emotive world of two dance visionaries: choreographers Kenneth MacMillan and Robert Cohan.
Thursday, July 11 at 7.45pm; Friday, July 12 at 1.45pm.
Freud’s Last Session: Freud, Anthony Hopkins, invites author CS Lewis, Matthew Goode, to debate the existence of God, his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis's unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.
Friday, July 12 at 7.45pm; Saturday, July 13 at 2.45pm; Monday, July 15; Tuesday, July 16, Wednesday, July 17 at 7.45pm.
Let’s Dance!: Singin’ in the Rain (1952): Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds lead the starry line-up in the light-hearted depiction of Hollywood in the 1920s. Three actors are caught up in the transition from silent movies to ‘talkies’.
Saturday, July 13 at 7.45pm. NT Live: Present Laughter (event cinema): The multi award-winning production
of Noël Coward‘s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott returns to the big screen. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control.
Thursday, July 18 at 1.45pm and 7pm.
The Sound of Music (1965, dementia-friendly screening): In 1930s Austria, a young woman named Maria – Julie Andrews – is failing in her attempts to become a nun. When naval captain Georg Von Trapp – Christopher Plummer – writes to the abbey asking for a governess who can handle his seven mischievous children, she is given the job.
Friday, July 19 at 1pm.
Kinds of Kindness: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe star in the latest from Yorgos Lanthimo. A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife’s demeanour after her return from a supposed drowning and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.
Friday July 19 at 7.15pm; Saturday July 20 at 2.45pm; Monday July 22, Tuesday July 23, Wednesday July 24, Thursday July 25 at 7.15pm.
Let’s Dance!: Billy Elliot (2000): a talented young boy, Jamie Bell, is torn between his unexpected love of dance and loyalty to his family. Saturday July 20 at 7.45pm. Inside Out 2: As Riley enters her teenage years, she encounters new emotions in this follow-up to the hit animation. Featuring the voices of Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke and Frank Oz.
Thursday July 25 at 1.45pm; FridayJuly 26 at 1.45pm; Saturday July 27 at 2.45pm.
Moviedrome: On the Waterfront (1954): an ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman, Marlon Brando, struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
Introduced by film expert George Cromack.
Friday July 26 at 7.45pm. Let’s Dance!: Dirty Dancing (1987): we have to say it: nobody puts Baby in a corner. Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, Jennifer Grey, falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, Patrick Swayze.
Saturday July 27 at 7.45pm. Blur: To the End: new feature-length documentary depicting the extraordinary and emotional return of blur, captured during the year in which they made a surprise return with their first record in eight years, the critically acclaimed album The Ballad of Darren.
Monday July 29, Tuesday July 30 at 7.45pm.
Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show (event cinema): powerful and stirring reinvention of the show, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning music and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance.
Wednesday July 31 at 7pm. Tckets for films are £8 (concessions £7; Circle members/ NHS/under-30s £6); Exhibition on Screen films, £12; event cinema, live and delayed live streamings, £18.
Book for three or more films in the Let’s Dance! season and get 20 percent off.
Dementia-friendly films: £6, and carers go free.
To book, call the box office on (01723) 370541 or visit the theatre’s website: www.sjt. uk.com