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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 sixth year with a rich program of restorations, rarities, rediscoveries and special guests – including archivists, historians, collectors, and filmmakers.

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Films in this Series

Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence
Festival of Preservation

Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence

Directed by Valerio Ciriaci (2025)

Q&A with Giuliana Bruno, Notari Scholar, and Isaak Liptzin, Cinematographer Followed by Book Signing with Giuliana Bruno

Gone to Earth
Festival of Preservation

Gone to Earth

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (1950)

The Masque of the Red Death
Festival of Preservation

The Masque of the Red Death

Directed by Roger Corman (1964)

Introduced by Mary Corman

Puppetoons
Festival of Preservation

Puppetoons Shorts

Directed by George Pal

Program I introduced by Arnold Leibovit, producer-director and Puppetoon historian

'A santanotte
Festival of Preservation

‘A santanotte

Directed by Elvira Notari (1922)

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
Festival of Preservation

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

Directed by Med Hondo (1979)

Introduction, Q&A, and Book Signing with Ashley Clark, Curatorial Director at the Criterion Collection

Letty Lynton
Festival of Preservation

Letty Lynton

Directed by Clarence Brown (1932)

Introduced via Zoom by George Feltenstein, Library Historian at Warner Bros. Discovery

Obsession
Festival of Preservation

Obsession

Directed by Brian De Palma (1976)

Introduced by Jake Paltrow, co-director of De Palma

Preservation Panel 2026
Festival of Preservation

Preservation Panel 2026

Me and My Gal
Festival of Preservation

Me and My Gal

Directed by Raoul Walsh (1932)

Intro and Outro by Bruce Goldstein, Director of Repertory Programming at Film Forum and co-founder of Rialto Pictures

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
Festival of Preservation

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

Directed by Samuel Fuller (1980/2004)

Introduced by Samantha Fuller

Paris Blues
Festival of Preservation

Paris Blues

Directed by Martin Ritt (1961)

Introduced by Schawn Belston, Amazon MGM Studios Archive

Auntie Mame
Festival of Preservation

Auntie Mame

Directed by Morton DaCosta (1958)

Introduced via Zoom by George Feltenstein, Library Historian at Warner Bros. Discovery

Citizen Ruth
Festival of Preservation

Citizen Ruth

Directed by Alexander Payne (1996)

Introduced via Zoom by Alexander Payne

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Festival of Preservation

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Directed by Charles Barton (1949)

Introduced by Cassandra Moore, Vice President of Mastering and Archive at NBCUniversal



Previous Festivals

2025


Martin Scorsese presents The Sag Harbor Cinema Festival of Preservation

November 7-11, 2025

From hand painted animation to avant-garde, Hollywood classics and foreign masters, SHC’s own festival, dedicated to the preservation of film and its culture in all their forms, returned for its fifth year with a rich program of restorations, rarities and rediscoveries. An array of guests, including archivists, historians, collectors, and filmmakers joined in to discuss and illuminate.


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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Bruce Weber Films Chet Baker and Robert Mitchum

Pictures of Ghosts

The Cotton Club Encore

High Society

Fleischer Studios Cartoons

Till We Meet Again

Nice Girls Don’t Stay for Breakfast

Footlight Parade

Stan Brakhage Shorts

The Lovers on the Bridge

Preservation Panel

You Are Not I

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

Duel in the Sun

Only Angels Have Wings

Beau Geste

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

The Professionals

Thief

Artists and Models

Black Girl

Mark of the Renegade


2024


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Intros and Q&As



2023


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2022


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2021


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