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Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch."
Sag Harbor Cinema’s (SHC) Drive-in series continues at Havens Beach with films every Sunday night that offer a true salute to the summertime spirit, brought to the comfort of your car.
On July 26, SHC revisits summertime romance, with a touch of the “illicit,” with Billy Wilder’s adaptation of Sam Axelrod’s play in “The Seven Year Itch.” It’s summer in New York. The city is empty and hot. With his wife and son vacationing in Maine, Richard (Tom Ewell), a publishing executive in midlife crisis discovers that his neighbor is… Marilyn Monroe (the character is named “The Girl”). Reading a theory that most marriages suffer a threat to monogamy after seven years, Richard’s imagination runs wild over The Girl who doesn’t exactly return his level of lust. The film includes one of the most famous scenes in cinematic history: Marilyn Monroe’s white dress in flight over a gusty subway grate. (Hollywood’s production code at the time would not allow adultery in a comedy. Frustrated with what he called “censorship,” Wilder had to retort to fantasy.)
“The light, the colors, the air, the heat, the smells, the sounds, the water, the adventure, the romance, the daydreams, the late nights, the everlasting memories, even the scorching asphalt… there is nothing like ‘the feeling of summer.’ And cinema has captured it so well in so many different ways,” says Sag Harbor Cinema artistic director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, adding: “To celebrate that feeling seemed like a natural subject for this series. Especially this particular year, and through a program of outdoor screenings.”
Here’s the rest of the line-up:
August 2 — Benh Zeitlin’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild” transports audiences to a mysterious and magical world through the eyes of an audacious six-year-old named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis).
August 9 — Three surfers navigate the waves, growing up, and the Vietnam draft during the mid-1960s in John Milius’ “Big Wednesday,” his semi-autobiographical love letter to Malibu.
August 16 — A recent grad (Jesse Eisenberg) is stuck working at Pittsburgh's local theme park with its quirky crew during the summer of 1987 in Greg Mottola's bittersweet comedy “Adventureland.”
August 23 — Ridley Scott's thrilling and unforgettable road movie about two best friends (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) on the run from their lives and the police in “Thelma & Louise.”
August 30 — Rob Reiner’s timeless coming-of-age film “Stand by Me,” originally a novel by Stephen King, follows four teenage boys (River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton, and Jerry O’Connell) who set off on an adventure through rural Oregon to find the body of a missing boy.
The tickets are $40 per vehicle and are available only online. Screenings start at approximately at 9 p.m. Go to sagharborcinema.org for tickets and information. Havens Beach is located just off Bay Street in Sag Harbor.
on Jul 22, 2020