SAG HARBOR CINEMA PRESENTS CINEMA MINUTES!
From marching toys in Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies to Three (very unusual) Kings in a Japanese anime; from Ernest Lubitsch to Will Ferrell; from It’s a Wonderful Life’s Bedford Falls to Gremlins’ Kingston Falls; from The Polar Express to Batman Returns: the Sag Harbor Cinema salutes the holidays with a special selection of Christmas movie scenes, curated and introduced by Artistic Director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan.
These holiday-themed “Cinema Minutes” will be viewable both online, and in the outdoor and indoor digital poster vitrines of the SHC Café. Viewers are encouraged to stop by and check them out in person during our newly-opened café hours, Thurs. - Monday, 8am - 4pm. “Christmas has such a great cinematic tradition and we were hoping to be open by now... Given that we cannot yet welcome the public in our three theaters, this little selection of scenes is as close as I can think of to programming a mini-retrospective. I mixed classics with less obvious titles, old and new, sweet and naughty, the uplifting and the ridiculous. They are all movies I love. I hope our audience will cherish the idea of us bringing attention to a scene as an opportunity to revisit the entire film”, says SHC Artistic Director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan.
The Cinema Minutes are directed and edited by Sam Hamilton. Julian Alvarez is the director of photography. They will be posted through the holidays starting December 17th
The Films and the scenes
Batman Returns, Directed by Tim Burton (1992) - The lightning of the tree.
Elf , directed by Jon Favreau (2003) - Buddy discovers he is not an elf.
Meet Me in St. Louis, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1944) -Esther sings Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas to her younger sister Tootie.
Tokyo Godfathers, directed by Satoshi Kon (2003) – A homeless drunk, a drag queen and a runaway teen ager find an abandoned baby on Christmas night.
The Shop Around the Corner, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (1940) – closing scene on Christmas eve.
It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra (1946) – The high school dance
Gremlins, directed by Joe Dante (1984) – Mrs. Deagle and the Christmas carolers
The Polar Express, directed by Robert Zemeckis (2004) - The train ticket to the North Pole flies away
Remember the Night, Mitchell Leisen (1940) – A shoplifter and a district attorney traveling to Indiana for Christmas wake up with a surprise
Santa’s Workshop, directed by Wilfred Jackson (1932) -Toys marching into Santa’s bag
Placido, by Luis Garcia Berlanga (1961) - Steam cooker propaganda scene
