The Lost Beatle

The East Hampton Library will screen “Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle” Saturday at 1 p.m. The 60-minute BBC documentary, directed in 2005 by Steve Cole, tells the story of Sutcliffe, who became friends with John Lennon in 1957 when both were students at the Liverpool School of Art, and joined the rock group, then known at the Quarrymen, in 1959.

As the group’s bass player, he traveled with them to Hamburg, where they performed in clubs and lived above a soft-core porn theater. He continued to paint in Hamburg, and in 1961 he left the group to concentrate on his career as an artist. When he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1962, he was enrolled in the Hamburg State School of Fine Art and living with Astrid Kirchherr, a photographer.

The screening of the film will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Pauline Sutcliffe, Stuart’s sister and a Wainscott resident, and Diane Vitale, who, along with Ms. Sutcliffe and Giles Cooper, wrote “In Conversation With Stuart Sutcliffe,” the 2012 book that commemorates his life and work and includes photographs of Sutcliffe taken by Ms. Kirchherr.