Film Societies:

• British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) 
• Yorkshire Branch of the BFFS
• The British Film Institute

If you are interested in learning more about films on the web:

• the BFI  Library and Research  link is an excellent research resource.

•  for information on a particular film there is the internet movie database

•  for information on the Oscars try the Academy of Motion Pictures site.

• for information on world/foreign-language cinema try www.subtitledonline.com

Reading about cinema:

The long-standing allure of celebrity and the explosion in film studies as an academic subject which started in the mid 1960s have combined to produce a massive literature on cinema.
Any good book shop will carry a wide selection of biographies, studies of genres and expositions of the work of particular directors, along with information about national cinematic movements.
The brief list below is in no way representative of this huge body of work, but is provided as a starting point for those interested to learn more about movies, the people who make them and the wider cultural and social debates that continue to swirl around the industry.
 The selection has some general interest and some more academic works. 

• Mark Cousins  -  The Story of Film. (London: Pavilion, 2004)

• David Sterritt (ed)  -  Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews. (Jackson: University of Missisippi Press, 1998)

• Guy Austin - Contemporary French Cinema: an introduction (2nd ed.) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008)

• Susan Hayward - French National Cinema. (London: Routledge, 2005)

• David Clarke - German Cinema: since unification (London: Continuum, 2006)

• Neal Gabler - An Empire of Their Own. How The Jews Invented Hollywood.  (New York: Anchor Books, 1989)

• Barry Norman  -  And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover (London: Pocket Books, 2003)

• Richard Maltby  -  Hollywood Cinema. Second Edition. (Malden, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)

• Dennis McDougal - The  Last Mogul. Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. (New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1998)

• Harry Shapiro  -  Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood and the Movies. (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2005)

•  Robert Brent Toplin (ed) - Oliver Stone's USA. Film History and Controversay. (Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000)

• Peter Biskind - Easy Riders Raging Buuls. How the sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood. (London: Bloomsbury, 1998)

• Michael Coyne - Hollywood Goes to Washington. American Politics on Screen. (London: Reaktion, 2008)

The associated bibliographies will offer many more possibilities.
  
There are a number of book stores in the centre of Harrogate, including at least one secondhand bookstore on Commercial Street*, offering a range of cinema related titles.
*first floor, for books on film.