Sag Harbor Cinema @ Home Virtual Cinema
Continues with a Lively Selection
Sag Harbor Cinema’s virtual programming continues with a strong selection of films, accessible 24/7 through the website (www.sagharborcinema.org).
Through June 25th, we will be running five must-see films that span nearly 100 years. First, we join Kino Marquee’s celebration of Pride Month with three classics of early queer cinema: Victor and Victoria (1933), Mädchen in Uniform (1931), and Michael (1924). Also included is Peter Sellers’ lost directorial feature Mr. Topaze (1961) which also stars Sellers. Finally is the portrait of horror writer Shirley Jackson starring Elisabeth Moss: Shirley (2020) by indie film darling Josephine Decker.
ABOUT THE FILMS
Titles Available Now through June 25th
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
We join Kino Marquee’s celebration of Pride Month, with three classics of early queer cinema, all way ahead of their time, in gorgeous new restorations.
Victor and Victoria
Directed by Reinhold Schünzel (Germany 1933; 84 min. in German with English subtitles)
Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic, this dazzling, gender-bending musical romance about a female singer posing as a man performing in drag received limited exposure in the United States, and is today best known by Blake Edwards’s 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway production. Viewers will be delighted to discover that the original is every bit as charming and outrageous, reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
Mädchen in Uniform
Directed by Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich (France and West Germany 1931; 95 min. in German with English subtitles)
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance. This artfully composed landmark of lesbian cinema – and an important anti-fascist film – was the first of just three films directed by Leontine Sagan.
Michael
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (Germany 1924; 90 mins. in German with subtitles)
Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time. Michael takes its place alongside Dreyer's better known masterpieces as an unusually sensitive and decorous work of art and is one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history.
Mr. Topaze
Directed by Peter Sellers (UK 1961; 97 mins. in English)
Peter Sellers’ lost directorial feature (and only credited) feature has been newly restored in 2K from the last surviving 35mm prints at the demand of the British public. A master impressionist (The Goon Show, Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther, Being There), Sellers also stars in this British classic as Albert Topaze, a provincial French schoolteacher whose honesty lands himself at the center of big business corruption.
After he refuses to change the grades of a wealthy student and is fired, Topaze becomes unintentionally involved with a sleazy government official (played by Herbert Lom) and his mistress (played by Nadia Gray). But outsmarting the clever and moral teacher proves to be a challenge. Topaze uses his wit to reinvent himself as a city gentleman and financier.
Shirley
Directed by Josephine Decker (USA 2020; 107 mins. in English)
From Susan Scarf Merrell’s novel about a chapter of writer Shirley Jackson’s life, a film adaptation that also captures the soul of Jackson’s work.
Moss’ masterly approach to the ultra-complex character “veers from grumpy to menacing to touching, turning in what may be her best — and is surely her wittiest — film performance to date”, wrote “Entertainment Weekly” after the film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize in Auteur Filmmaking.
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