Press Release

SAG HARBOR CINEMA ANNOUNCES ITS FIFTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION

By Press Room

September 30, 2025

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. 

SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS THE NEW HOLLYWOOD: AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION  

By Press Room

June 23, 2025

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.

SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS “WORLDS IMAGINED: MARK FRIEDBERG”

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June 2, 2025

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.

JUNE AT SAG HARBOR CINEMA

By Press Room

May 20, 2025

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

SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS VACANZE ROMANE

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May 5, 2025

A Journey in the Dreamlife of Postwar Italian Cinema with Artist SABINA STREETER And a Screening of Federico Fellini’s The White Sheik Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 6pm Sag Harbor, NY – Following the success of Tarnished Angels, its 2022 tribute to director Douglas Sirk and the Sirk-inspired art of local artist Sabina Streeter, Sag…

SAG HARBOR CINEMA’S ANIMATION WEEKEND 

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March 18, 2025

Saturday, April 5 – Sunday, April 6, 2025  Four new animated features from the US, UK, France, and China will screen at the Cinema with a live virtual Q&A from Sag Harbor native Peter Brownsgardt, director of The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, and two claymation workshops for children Sag Harbor,…

SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS ‘A TOUCH OF LUBITSCH’

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March 11, 2025

Friday, March 28 – Thursday, April 3, 2025   Seven comedies by Ernst Lubitsch who brought to Hollywood the unique blend of European sophistication, wit, sexual irreverence, and artistry that became the renowned ‘Lubitsch Touch’ Sag Harbor, NY – Sag Harbor Cinema announces “A Touch of Lubitsch” featuring seven classic comedies from the German-born director’s extensive…