Films at Jermain Library Celebrate 1966

Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library will present “1966: Cinema Breaks Free,” a series of three influential films from that pivotal year, and a related lecture.

The series begins this evening at 7 with a screening of “A Man and a Woman.” Directed by Claude Lelouche and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée, the film is the romantic story of the developing relationship between a widow and widower who meet at their children’s school.

“Blow-Up,” Michelangelo Antonioni’s film about a fashion photographer (David Hemmings) in swinging London who thinks he has unwittingly captured a murder on film, will be shown next Thursday. Mike Nichols’s film of Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is set for Feb. 18. It stars  Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor; the subject matter and language were controversial at the time of its release.

Michael Edelson, a film historian, writer, and editor who teaches at Stony Brook University, has organized the series and will give a talk on Feb. 25 about “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Motion Picture Academy of America’s 1934 censorship code.