SAG HARBOR CINEMA CELEBRATES JERRY SCHATZBERG’S 99TH BIRTHDAY June 26, 2026
In celebration of his 99th birthday, Sag Harbor Cinema showcases photographer and filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg’s nearly century-long artistic legacy. In the decade prior to his directorial debut in 1970, Schatzberg captured the icons of twentieth-century film in his photography studio.
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Sag Harbor Cinema’s Lighthouse Project Presents“Maternal Mental Health”
Free series on mental health awareness will include screenings of IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU by Mary Bronstein and TALE OF TWO MOTHERS by Sam Vladimirsky, photography by Jamie Diamond, and an expert-led panel discussion.
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THE GREAT GATSBY (1949) AT SAG HARBOR CINEMA Thursday, May 28th, 2026 at 6pm
Elliott Nugent’s 1949 rarely seen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, starring Alan Ladd screens on 35mm. A co-presentation with Canio’s Books.
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‘SUMMER NOIR’ AT SAG HARBOR CINEMA FEATURING CLASSIC NOIR AND NEO-NOIR, MAY – SEPTEMBER 2026
Kicking off Memorial Day Weekend with the screening of Robert Aldrich’s masterpiece Kiss Me Deadly and the opening of a new exhibit ‘Trapped in the Shadows: Film Noir Artifacts.’ Continuing throughout the summer with films from Howard Hawks, Ida Lupino, Jacques Tourneur, Edgar J. Ulmer, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Joseph H. Lewis, Michael Mann, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Anthony Mann, and Robert Altman, with special guests including author Robert Polito, composer Carter Burwell, cinematographer Sean Price Williams, and filmmaker Walter Hill, with more films and guests announced throughout the summer.
MARK LUBELL NAMED NEW SAG HARBOR CINEMA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center and its Board of Directors have unanimously approved the appointment of Mark Lubell as its new Executive Director, following a national search conducted by PBR Executive Search.
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS NOBODY’S PERFECT: BILLY WILDER’S COMEDIES
An eight-film series celebrating one of the most incisive, irreverent, and enduring writer-directors in Hollywood history.
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Sag Harbor Cinema’s “Projections” Series Presents“Death Reconsidered: 35 Years of Compassion, Comfort & Community with East End Hospice” on Sunday, March 29 at 4pm at Sag Harbor Cinema
Sag Harbor Cinema continues its “Projections” series on Sunday, March 29 at 4pm with “Death Reconsidered: 35 Years of Compassion, Comfort & Community with East End Hospice,” a free program marking the organization’s decades of service on the East End.
“KNOWING OUR PLACE: LESSONS FROM GRIZZLY MAN FOR DEER MANAGEMENT IN OUR BACKYARDS”
The screening of Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary Grizzly Man will be preceded by a presentation from Certified Wildlife Biologist Dr. Jason R. Boulanger
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS LUCHINO VISCONTI
The midweek matinees are back at the Cinema with five films by Italian master Luchino Visconti, including his rarely seen neorealist masterpieces Ossessione, La Terra Trema and Rocco e i suoi fratelli. Plus new restorations ofIl Gattopardo andGruppo di famiglia in un interno.
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SHC PRESENTS: STRAIGHT STORY
As journalists continue to reckon with an onslaught of economic, political and legal threats, Sag Harbor Cinema pays tribute to their fine art – and how it relates to preserving truth, protecting memory, and holding authorities and institutions accountable – with screenings of Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow and Alan Berliner’sLetter to the Editor.
‘GO WEST’ IS BACK AT SAG HARBOR CINEMA FEATURING NINE WESTERNS FROM THE SIXTIES
February 13th-19th, 2026 SHC_PR 2026_2_4_GO WEST THE SIXTIESDownload Sag Harbor, NY – Following the success of last year’s Go West: The Fifties series — and screenings of new restored King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun and Richard Brooks’ The Professionals at the latest Festival of Preservation — the Cinema announces another salute to the westerns with Go West: The Sixties, a weeklong series beginning over Presidents’ Day weekend. This year, the nine-film series will accent the 1960s and feature the work of Howard Hawks, Gordon Douglas, David Miller, John Ford, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Monte Hellman. “I am happy…
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS KEN BURNS’S THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Experience Burns’s new six-part epic on the big screen February 1st through March 8th, 2026
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA’S HOLIDAY CHEERS TO THE MEMBERS – BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
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.
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Sag Harbor Cinema’s “Projections” Series Presents“The Bonackers Project: Currents of Memory & Meaning”on Sunday, December 14th at 11am at Sag Harbor Cinema
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.
SAG HARBOR CINEMA IN COLLABORATION WITH HAMPTONS DOC FEST PRESENTS BELOW THE CLOUDS Sunday, December 7th at 4:30PM
with award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi in attendance for a Q&A following the screening
GUESTS AND NEW FILMS ANNOUNCED FOR SAG HARBOR CINEMA’S FIFTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION
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.
BRUCE WEBER’S FILM JOURNALS AT SAG HARBOR CINEMA’S FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION
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
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA ANNOUNCES ITS FIFTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION
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.
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS THE NEW HOLLYWOOD: AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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.
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS “WORLDS IMAGINED: MARK FRIEDBERG”
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.
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JUNE AT SAG HARBOR CINEMA
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
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 SHC_PR 2025_5_6_SABINA STREETERDownload 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 Harbor Cinema explores another film-related vein of the Munich-born painter’s work, combining a screening of Federico Fellini’s first feature film, The White Sheik, with an art exhibit on the Cinema’s third floor. “Vacanze Romane” evolved from Streeter’s series “Tempeste di Primavera,” a…
SAG HARBOR CINEMA’S THE MANY SCREEN LIVES OF MOBY-DICK
A short presentation of Moby-Dick adaptations on film, from silent to cartoon to live action, followed by a screening of John Huston’s 1956 Technicolor epic starring Gregory Peck. A co-presentation with Canio’s
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA’S ANIMATION WEEKEND
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 SHC_PR 2025_3_18_SHC ANIMATION WEEKENDDownload Sag Harbor, NY – The Cinema will screen four brand new animated films as part of the inaugural “Sag Harbor Cinema’s Animation Weekend” on April 5-6, 2025. The films range from classic animation, to traditional ink painting, to stop motion, to claymation, and…
SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS ‘A TOUCH OF LUBITSCH’
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’ SHC_PR 2025_3_11_A TOUCH OF LUBITSCHDownload Sag Harbor, NY – Sag Harbor Cinema announces “A Touch of Lubitsch” featuring seven classic comedies from the German-born director’s extensive filmography. Lubitsch, an enduring titan of silent cinema in his own country, was one of Hollywood’s most successful European imports, garnering an almost unsurpassed reputation for his sophisticated comedies of manners, as well as his musicals, and whose patented “Lubitsch…
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SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS JIMMY STEWART IN ‘THE MORTAL STORM’ AND ‘THE ART OF MARY STEWART’ EXHIBIT
Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 6pm The Cinema will screen Frank Borzage’s The Mortal Storm, one of Hollywood’s strongest indictments of Nazi Germany released before the American entry into World War II. Members of the Stewart family will join the Cinema for an intro and Q&A, followed by a reception for the opening of exhibit “The Art of Mary Stewart” on the Cinema’s third floor. SHC_PR 2025_3_3_JIMMY STEWART IN THE MORTAL STORM AND THE ART OF MARY STEWART EXHIBITDownload Sag Harbor, NY – Jimmy Stewart returns to the Cinema’s screens on March 22nd at 6pm with Frank Borzage’s acclaimed The…
SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS WEDNESDAY MATINEES OF RIALTO PICTURES’ RESTORATIONS OF CLASSIC FILMS
February 26th-April 16th, 2025 The Cinema will screen eight restored films from acclaimed repertory distributor Rialto Pictures every Wednesday afternoon including Rififi, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Pianist, The Third Man, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, Billy Liar, The Grand Illusion, and A Woman is a Woman SHC_PR 2025_2_11_RESTORED CLASSICS FROM RIALTODownload Sag Harbor, NY – Starting on February 26th Sag Harbor Cinema will pay an eight week tribute to the esteemed, New York-based distributor of classic cinema through a series of midweek matinee screenings of works by, among others, Jules Dassin, Jean Renoir, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Jean-Luc…
SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS ‘GO WEST’ FEATURING SEVEN WESTERNS FROM THE FIFTIES February 15th-19th, 2025
SHC_PR 2025_1_23_GO WEST SERIESDownload Halsted Welles will present the 1957 classic 3:10 to Yuma penned by his father, a special presentation of Raoul Walsh’s Gun Fury in 3D, and an introduction from film author and collector Bob Rubin Sag Harbor, NY – Following the success of screenings of The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) and Gunman’s Walk (Phil Karlson, 1958) at the 2024 Sag Harbor Cinema Festival of Preservation – as well Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) at the 2023 Festival and Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneaur, 1946) at the 2022 Festival – the Cinema announces a special salute to the western.…
SAG HARBOR CINEMA SCREENS THE BRUTALIST WITH CO-WRITER MONA FASTVOLD AND PRODUCTION DESIGNER JUDY BECKER IN PERSON Sunday, January 19th, 2025 at 3pm
SHC_PR 2025_1_09_THE BRUTALIST WITH MONA FASTVOLD AND JUDY BECKERDownload Sag Harbor, NY – Fresh off its Golden Globes wins for Best Drama, as well as Best Director and Best Actor, The Brutalist will open at Sag Harbor Cinema on January 17th. Co-writer Mona Fastvold and production designer Judy Becker will join the Cinema for a special screening on Sunday, January 19th at 3pm followed by a Q&A. Fastvold, an acclaimed director on her own (her last feature, The World to Come, premiered at the 2003 Venice Film Festival), co-wrote The Brutalist with her partner Brady Corbert, along with two of…