Film buffs, now’s your chance to hear the from one of cinema’s most celebrated and prolific living legends. This Sunday, Nov. 10 at 8:30 p.m., Sag Harbor Cinema is hosting filmmaker Martin Scorsese as part of their annual Festival of Preservation.
The renowned director, producer and writer will be on hand to introduce and answer questions about the 1945 psychological drama directed by John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven before the Technicolor classic’s 110 minute screening.
It’s a movie dear to his heart: It was restored by the organization Scorsese established in 1990 to save celluloid treasure, The Film Foundation.
Inspired by the Foundation, Sag Harbor Cinema’s annual event dedicated to film history and preservation started four years ago. After nearly losing the entire theater itself to a fire in 2016, preservation and celebration of film is certainly a topic that drives the storied East End movie theater. The Festival not only feature gems of filmdom, but in-person appearances from some of the most renowned names in cinema.
“Martin Scorsese generously allowed us to use his name when we started this Festival four years ago. Since then, the work of The Film Foundation has been both an inspiration and an important source for my curation of this festival, as well as our repertory programs throughout the year,” says the Cinema’s Founding Artistic Director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan. “From films by Michael Powell, Emilio Fernández, Ernst Lubitsch, George Stevens, Marlon Brando, and Djibril Diop Mambéty in past editions of The Festival of Preservation, to John Ford, Sergei Parajanov, John Stahl, and Alfred Hitchcock in our 2024 lineup. We are thrilled that he will be joining us in Sag Harbor.”
While Scorsese adds some glam to the goings-on, there’s much to see and hear this weekend, including a dive into the Woody Woodpecker restored cartoons of Walter Lantz, Historic Films Archive CEO Joe Lauro discussing the revelatory discovery of the 1922 lost film The Heart of Lincoln by Francis Ford, as well as a cache of credited creators, like Disney archivist Kevin Schaeffer, Sony archivist Grover Crisp, MoMa archivist and curators Katie Trainor, Dave Kehr and Ron Magliozzi, as well as experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr.
The Sag Harbor Cinema Festival of Preservation runs from Friday, Nov. 8 to Monday, Nov. 11. All-access passes are sold out, but individual tickets are still available for $20 a ticket, or six for $100. Tickets qualify you for entry into the annual raffle as well. Go to Sag Harbor Cinema’s website to purchase.
