Our film program, led by Founding Artistic Director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, strives to bring a world-class cinematic experience to the heart of Sag Harbor village, engaging our audience through specially curated screenings and series, Q&As with a diverse range of industry experts, and more.
Want a deeper look? Check out our archive of recorded Q&As and Film Articles!
Video Q&As – Recent Highlights
Martin Scorsese
Leave Her to Heaven Intro
Julie Andrews
Blake Edwards Documentary
Julian Schnabel
Basquiat
Good Reads
Hayao Miyazaki’s THE BOY AND THE HERON
Tender, beautiful, macabre, thoughtful, hilarious, and heart-wrenching all at once, all of Miyazaki's films – from the indelible fuzzy spirits in My Neighbor Totoro (1988), to the epic fantasy tale Princess Mononoke (1997), to the contradictions of love and war in Howl's Moving Castle (2004), to the lovable and enchanting Ponyo (2008), to one of the highest-grossing film in…
Frostbitten Frames: Animated Films of the 20s and 30s
The story of the Golden Age of Animation in America through the lens of eight winter-themed toons when studios like Disney and Fleischer were competing for the top talent to create clever stories with gorgeous imagery and bespoke score, while trying to stay on the cutting edge of technology.
THE GLAMOR OF GERTIE
Read about Gertrude Lawrence's life and career in conjunction with promotional coverage of STAR! in these rare scans
Douglas Sirk’s America
Douglas Sirk fled Nazi Germany and quickly found a home amongst a number of expatriated filmmakers in Hollywood. His distinctive style and palette alongside his subtly subversive melodramas were a commercial success and, later, a critical one. His influence looms large on the work of filmmakers such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch…
LITERARY TIES
The beginning of 2023 at SHC features several tie-ins with the literary world. From an Oscar nominated script from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro to Lizzie Gottlieb’s documentary about powerhouse literary duo Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb to the great Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, a monologue based on Sophia Tolstoy’s diaries.
DeLillo’s “Unfilmable” WHITE NOISE
"White Noise" was long considered an unadaptable book and Noah Baumbach may not have been the obvious choice to take on the task, but when Baumbach reread the book following his Academy nominated Marriage Story, he found a relatable entry point, “The story is about a culture that is saturated by media,” Baumbach said. “Movies and entertainment…