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IN THE HAND OF DANTE | Thursday, August 6th · 6PM · Q&A with filmmaker Julian SchnabelSeven hundred years collapse into ...
07/20/2026

IN THE HAND OF DANTE | Thursday, August 6th · 6PM · Q&A with filmmaker Julian Schnabel

Seven hundred years collapse into one restless present in the new film from Julian Schnabel (“Basquiat,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “At Eternity’s Gate”) - a story that moves between 14th-century Florence and the modern underworld to ask whether a manuscript, a murder, and a man’s redemption might all be the same story told twice.

Author Nick Tosches is pulled from exile to authenticate a manuscript claimed to be Dante’s own hand-written “Divine Comedy,” a job that entangles him with a mafia don and an assassin named Louie in a journey as much spiritual as criminal. Schnabel weaves the two timelines until they become one obsessive search for love, beauty, and the divine.

As Schnabel reflects: “In the struggle for perfection in art, our lives may be less than perfect - even plagued with failure - but everything that exists outside the work of art doesn’t exist. The goal is to become the poem.”

With an extraordinary cast - Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, and Jason Momoa - the film continues the retrospective “Portrait of the Artist: Julian Schnabel and Film” that began at the Cinema in 2024, and offers a rare chance to see it with the director himself, live for a Q&A immediately following.

From the novel:
“In The Hand of Dante” by Nick Tosches

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🎟️ Tickets at the box office or sagharborcinema.org

Packed house at 2pm for opening day. 🎬 Odyssey Movie - written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the first feature ever...
07/17/2026

Packed house at 2pm for opening day. 🎬 Odyssey Movie - written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the first feature ever shot entirely in IMAX.

Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, King of Ithaca, on his long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War - battling gods, monsters, and his own fractured memory as he fights to reunite with his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son, Telemachus (Tom Holland).

With Zendaya as Athena, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Samantha Morton, and Jon Bernthal.

The The New York Times calls it a Critic’s Pick, praising it as “a transporting affirmation of the art” - critic Manohla Dargis writes that Nolan’s passion is “in every frame” of this monumental adaptation.

This is the one to see big. See it with us.

07/11/2026

🎬🍿 From the page to the dark screen: This July, join us for a selection of psychological thrillers and hard-boiled crime dramas adapted directly from celebrated literature.

“The Postman Always Rings Twice” (35mm) Directed by Tay Garnett (1946)

Date/Time: Monday, July 13 @ 6:30 PM Based on: The 1934 novel by James M. Cain. The blueprint for illicit passion and murder. When a handsome drifter steps into a roadside diner, a dangerous affair with the owner’s beautiful young wife quickly turns into a deadly conspiracy. See Lana Turner and John Garfield spark a flame that remains one of the most influential templates in film noir - presented in glorious 35mm.

“Double Indemnity” Directed by Billy Wilder (1944)

Date/Time: Monday, July 20 (Showtimes coming soon) Based on: The 1943 novella by James M. Cain. The ultimate definition of film noir. Directed by Billy Wilder, this is a stylish portrait of an insurance salesman roped into a murderous scheme by a mesmerizing femme fatale intent on killing her husband. More than eighty years after its release, it remains a benchmark for the genre.

“Gone Girl” Directed by David Fincher (2014)

Date/Time: Friday, July 31 (Showtimes coming soon) Based on: The 2012 bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn. David Fincher’s icy, modern noir masterpiece. When Amy vanishes on the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, her husband Nick becomes the focus of mounting suspicion from investigators and a fascinated public. A brilliant dissection of public personas and marital deception.

Which literary noir thriller are you locking into your calendar? 🕶️

🎟️ Tickets & Info: Head to the link in our bio to grab your seats for “The Postman Always Rings Twice” on 35mm!

Rain-slicked streets. Neon through the dark. Los Angeles, 2019.Tonight only: BLADE RUNNER (1982) screens at Sag Harbor C...
07/10/2026

Rain-slicked streets. Neon through the dark. Los Angeles, 2019.

Tonight only: BLADE RUNNER (1982) screens at Sag Harbor Cinema as part of our Summer Noir series.

Ridley Scott’s genre-defying vision, presented in The Final Cut - his definitive 2007 restoration. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a blade runner hunting down escaped replicants in a future noir unlike anything before it. With Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.

📅 Friday, July 10
🕘 9:00pm
🎟️ Link in bio for tickets

Do androids dream? Find out tonight.

07/09/2026

“The Invite” directed by Olivia Wilde 🍽️ Tickets On Sale Now

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors over for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected territory. Have they reignited the spark - or lit the match that burns it all down?

Directed by Olivia Wilde, this dark comedy stars Seth Rogen and Wilde as the embattled couple, with Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz as the neighbors upstairs. Adapted from Cesc Gay’s Spanish play and film The People Upstairs, it’s a night of dinner, secrets, and reckonings that no one sees coming.

The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney calls it Wilde’s most assured film to date - a smart, incisively acted adult comedy that turns a night of bad manners into something with genuine pathos, anchored by standout performances from Rogen and Norton.

One dinner. Four people. A night neither couple will forget.

The seats are waiting. So are we.
See you at the cinema!

“Maddie’s Secret” - leaving Sag Harbor Cinema soon. Last show 7/9!John Early’s directorial debut stars himself as Maddie...
07/07/2026

“Maddie’s Secret” - leaving Sag Harbor Cinema soon. Last show 7/9!

John Early’s directorial debut stars himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher turned viral sensation.
An adoring husband, a ride-or-die best friend, a cupboard of ethically-sourced chili crisp - the picture-perfect life, until a hidden secret threatens it all.
A love letter to the eating-disorder movie-of-the-week, blending satire, melodrama, and heart.

Don’t miss it - get your tickets now. 🍿

One of the defining film noirs, “The Big Sleep” brought Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe to the s...
07/05/2026

One of the defining film noirs, “The Big Sleep” brought Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe to the screen through one of Humphrey Bogart’s most iconic performances. Adapted from Chandler’s 1939 novel, it stands as one of the earliest and most influential screen versions of Marlowe, a character other actors would later take on: Robert Montgomery in “Lady in the Lake” (1947), James Garner in “Marlowe” (1969), Elliott Gould in “The Long Goodbye” (1973), and Robert Mitchum, who played the role twice, in “Farewell, My Lovely” (1975) and a 1978 remake of “The Big Sleep” itself.

Private investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by General Sternwood to sort out the gambling debts racked up by his wild young daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers). Her older sister Vivian (Lauren Bacall) makes clear there’s more going on than a simple debt, drawing in a casino owner (John Ridgely) and a family friend who’s gone missing. As the bodies start piling up around the Sternwoods, Marlowe gets pulled further into a case with no clean way out.

To purchase tickets, link in bio. 🔗

Monday, July 6
8:15pm (35mm)

The Big Sleep (35mm)
Directed by Howard Hawks (1946)

Series: Summer Noir

“I’ve sold 60 million slices of pizza and I’ve made two feature films, so the ratio is 30 million to one.” Funding the f...
07/03/2026

“I’ve sold 60 million slices of pizza and I’ve made two feature films, so the ratio is 30 million to one.”

Funding the film gave us Two Boots Pizza, but the quiet, empty storefronts on screen reflected a shifting New York reality in real-time. In conversation with SHC Founding Artistic Director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, Philip Hartman observed that the economic pressures and vacant windows of 1985 directly mirror the village today.

The conversation turned to a topic that has defined New York for generations: gentrification, neighborhood continuity, and the frantic race to archive a changing landscape.

Filmed on the rubble-strewn, post-war-esque streets of the 1985 East Village, NO PICNIC captures a world that was already slipping away. Hartman notes that even 41 years ago, his crew was racing around in a van trying to document the landscape and the people they knew wouldn’t be around much longer. That included Adam Purple’s iconic Garden of Eden, bulldozed by the city just three months after the shoot.

Still, as Giulia and Philip reflect, while the physical storefronts change and rent forces communities to shift, the countercultural, artistic energy of the East Village is a spiritual force that lives on forever.

Watch the full conversation on our YouTube channel - link in bio. 🔗

Often spoken of as the “Citizen Kane” of film noir, Robert Siodmak’s “The Killers” arrives fully formed: shadow-soaked, ...
06/27/2026

Often spoken of as the “Citizen Kane” of film noir, Robert Siodmak’s “The Killers” arrives fully formed: shadow-soaked, morally airless, and alive with a fatalism that feels less like style than inevitability. Burt Lancaster, in his screen debut, plays the Swede: an ex-boxer waiting in a darkened room for two men who have come to kill him. He offers no resistance. The film’s great question, and its great engine, is why.

Adapted from a Hemingway short story of punishing compression, the film expands outward through a fractured series of flashbacks and witness testimonies, each one adding another layer of shadow to the portrait of a man destroyed by love and bad choices. At the center of his ruin stands Ava Gardner’s Kitty Collins, one of Hollywood’s most unforgettable femmes fatales. Edmond O’Brien plays the insurance investigator doggedly reconstructing the Swede’s past, and the film’s architecture mirrors his search: circling, doubling back, never quite arriving at innocence.

A summer spent in the dark. The Sag Harbor Cinema Summer Noir Series runs through September, with a new title each week to keep the shadows long all season.

Monday, June 29 · 8:00 pm

Jerry Schatzberg turned 94 today. We opened his photography show at Sag Harbor Cinema, poured champagne, and watched him...
06/27/2026

Jerry Schatzberg turned 94 today. We opened his photography show at Sag Harbor Cinema, poured champagne, and watched him join us live from wherever he was in the world.

Then we screened Puzzle of a Downfall Child, his 1970 debut, Faye Dunaway unraveling at the center of it with the kind of precision that makes you forget you’re watching a performance.

Before Scarecrow, before The Panic in Needle Park, there was this: a photographer who picked up a camera of a different kind and announced himself completely. Some beginnings hold up. This one does.

The photographs are up. Come see them!

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