A Spike Lee Joint in Sag Harbor

The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center will screen “Do the Right Thing,” Spike Lee’s 1989 comedy-drama set on a single day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor.

Called “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, the film captures the racial and ethnic diversity of the Brooklyn neighborhood and the tensions that rise and eventually explode on the hottest day of the summer. 

In addition to Mr. Lee, who plays a pizza deliveryman and whose screenplay received an Oscar nomination, the cast includes Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Lawrence, and Rosie Perez.

Ashley Clark, the senior programmer of cinema at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, will discuss the film after the free screening.