June at Sag Harbor Cinema

Following the Memorial Day Weekend opening of a new gallery exhibit on the third floor “Movie Art and Artifacts From a Private Collection,” which will run until the first week of August, Sag Harbor Cinema will continue a packed program of screenings, events, Q&As, and special series this month.

Mondays in June: The cinema will continue its 100 Years of Columbia series with screenings on Mondays at 6 p.m. including: Wes Anderson’s sophomore feature “Bottle Rocket” (1996) starring Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson on June 3; Laslo Benedeck’s “The Wild One (1953)” starring Marlon Brando, a precursor to the last 70 years of biker films, on June 10; fresh from the Cannes Film Festival, a new restoration of Charles Vidor’s “Gilda” (1946) starring Rita Hayworth in her most iconic performance on June 17; and Robert Altman’s “California Split” (1974) with George Segal and Elliott Gould on June 24.

Sunday, June 9, 6 p.m.: The cinema will host award-winning filmmakers Pamela Yates and producer Paco de Onìs for a Q&A following a screening of their new documentary “Borderland | The Line Within.” The film explores the “business of immigration” and the increasing criminalization of undocumented migrants. A winner of the Grand Jury Grand Prize for Documentary at the 1984 Sundance Film Festival, Yates has shown several of her films at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and in other international documentary and human rights events. Wendy Keys, who founded HRWFF 35 years ago and serves as an emerita board member, will moderate the post screening Q&A.

Friday, June 14, to Sunday, June 16: The cinema will celebrate the life and work of Roger Corman (1926-2024) with a “Three for Corman” program. “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1960) is the first of Corman’s eight adaptations from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, scripted by the great novelist Richard Matheson and starring Vincent Price. One of Corman’s most famous dark comedies in which a florist assistant cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood, “The Little Shop of Horrors” (1960) features Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph and a famous cameo by Jack Nicholson. It has inspired a Broadway musical, a musical remake directed by Frank Oz and a cartoon series. An adaptation from Charles Beaumont’s novel of the same title, “The Intruder” (1962) stars William Shatner as a violence-inciting racist who fights court-ordered schools integration in a Southern town. A passion project for the director and, thematically speaking, his most serious and overtly political film, “The Intruder” was critically acclaimed but its tormented release was one of the biggest disappointments in Corman’s career.

One of the great visionaries in the history of American independent cinema, and a director of artistically inventive, cheap, fast and subversive films, Corman also helped launch the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Stephanie Rothman, Joe Dante, and many more. He directed over 50 films and produced over 350 through his nearly seven-decade career.

Saturday, June 22: For the fourth year, the cinema will host Sound Views, an annual showcase of local filmmakers’ shorts, co-curated with filmmakers Julia Bayliss and Sam Guest.

Sunday, June 23, at 6 p.m.: The cinema, in collaboration with The Church, will present the documentary “Taking Venice,” followed by a conversation between director Amei Wallach, the cinema’s artistic director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan and The Church’s executive director Sheri Pasquarella. The film uncovers the true story behind rumors that the U.S. government and a team of high-placed insiders rigged the 1964 Venice Biennale so that their chosen artist, Robert Rauschenberg, could win the Golden Lion.

Thursday, June 27: In celebration of Pride month the cinema will host filmmaker Rob Epstein for a Q&A following the screening of the groundbreaking 1977 documentary “Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives.” Co-directed by Epstein, together with Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Lucie Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver (together the Mariposa Film Group), “Word Is Out” was the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity that was made by gay filmmakers. The film quickly became an emblem of the emerging gay rights movement of the 1970s. In 2022, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

Check sagharborcinema.org for more movies, showtimes, tickets and details about added events and screenings. The Sag Harbor Cinema is at 90 Main Street in Sag Harbor.