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Experience Burns’s new six-part epic on the big screen February 1st through March 8th, 2026 

A screening of the magical Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart 1958 classic with a special introduction and sneak peek of the upcoming documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo.  Member’s holiday celebration to follow. 

Sag Harbor Cinema continues its “Projections” series on Sunday, December 14th, from 11am-1pm, with The Bonackers Project. This event is free to the public and will feature a screening of the documentary The Bonackers followed by the panel discussion “The Bonackers Project: Currents of Memory & Meaning,” which explores the layered histories of the communities that have shaped the East End.

with award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi in attendance for a Q&A following the screening 

Filmmakers Bruce Weber, Carrie Mitchum, Brady Corbet, Sara Driver, Bill Morrison, and Mona Fastvold will appear at the Cinema, as well as restoration experts from The Film Foundation, Sony, Disney, Universal, Zoetrope, Fleischer Studios, and Warner Bros. Added to the program are screenings of Ossie Davis’ Black Girl (1972) with writer J.E. Franklin and Bill Morrison’s Ghost of the Past (2025).  Plus the annual Preservation Panel.

A new gallery exhibit from acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber opens November 7th on the Cinema’s third floor featuring icons Robert Mitchum and Chet Baker. Plus a book signing and a screening of Weber’s Nice Girls Don’t Stay for Breakfast followed by a Q&A with Bruce Weber and Carrie Mitchum 

The East End’s annual Martin Scorsese Presents: The Sag Harbor Cinema Festival of Preservation, dedicated to the preservation of film and its culture in all their forms, returns for its fifth year with a rich program of restorations, rarities, and rediscoveries. Special guests including archivists, historians, collectors, and filmmakers will join to discuss and illuminate. The Festival, now five days, will be held over Veterans Day weekend from Friday, November 7th through Tuesday, November 11th. 

From July 7th through the end of the summer, the Cinema will pay tribute to the transformative generation of filmmakers, whose creativity and vision shook up an aging studio system and brought to the American screens fresh ways to look at the Country, new cinematic languages, and an empowered notion of the director. Films by Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, John Landis, George Lucas, Peter Bogdanovich, John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola. With late night screenings and special guests Benny Safdie, Griffin Dunne and more.

The Cinema opens a new third floor exhibit featuring renowned production designer (and Springs native) Mark Friedberg and his work on films by Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, Julie Taymour, Darren Aronofsky, Barry Jenkins, and Ed Harris. The Cinema will host a gallery reception and a screening of Pollock on Saturday, July 5th accompanied by a Q&A with Friedberg and producer Fred Berner.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch for Pride, Mars Attacks! with a science presentation, two documentaries with special guests, an event with The Steinbeck House, and an exhibit from artist Sabina Streeter