Coppola Classic
Screenings of a new 35mm print of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film “The Conversation” will take place at the Sag Harbor Cinema for one week starting Friday. Mr. Coppola, who personally supervised the creation of the new print, considers it his most personal film and one that, while conceived more than 40 years ago, “still resonates today.”
Gene Hackman stars as Harry Caul, a lonely wiretapping expert hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation between two lovers. When he listens to the tape, Caul fears he might put the couple in jeopardy if he turns it over to his client.
Nominated for the best picture Oscar (it lost to Mr. Coppola’s “The Godfather”), it also stars Harrison Ford, John Cazale, Cindy Williams, Robert Duvall, and Allen Garfield.
Comedy and Auditions
Jamie Roberts will host the All Star Comedy show at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m. He will be joined by Reggie Thomas and Kareem Green. Tickets are $35.
Mr. Roberts has performed on MTV, Sirius XM Radio, NBC’s “Law and Order,” and FYI-TV’s “A Question of Love.” He is the founder of Comedy With a Purpose, a business that uses comedy to address social problems.
Inspired in part by Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and his Haitian parents, Mr. Thomas has been commissioned by media companies such as BuzzFeed, Complex Media, and Atlantic Records.
Mr. Green has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean and has performed in New York at Caroline’s on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club, and the Comic Strip Live.
Bay Street has also announced that video submissions are now open for “The Grift,” an immersive, site-specific theatrical experience that will take place throughout Sag Harbor from March 17 through April 3. The audition portal will be open through Feb. 25.
The production calls for male and female actors with strong improvisational skills. The salary is $500 for four weeks, including one week of rehearsal. More information, including roles and submission requirements, is on the theater's website.
Native Cinema
Ginew Benton, an Ojibway filmmaker who grew up on Shinnecock Nation land, will show three short films at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 6 p.m. A question-and-answer session will follow.
“Mirror Man” features a Native police officer who is met by a supernatural entity when she is called to investigate a possible burglary. “Looking Glass” is the story of a young Native American man who builds a time machine in an attempt to bring his dead father back to life. In the third film, a father reads to his son an excerpt from a classic Ojibway book.
Mr. Benton was a 2007 Ford Foundation Film Fellow with the Sundance Institute. “Looking Glass” has won awards and nominations from the AFI World Peace Initiative, the Red Nation International Film Festival, and the BendFilm Festival.
Tickets are $15.
Virtual Jazz
The virtual winter music series from the Arts Center at Duck Creek continues on Saturday with a performance by the Kazemde George Quintet at Bay Bayeux in Brooklyn. It will be available for viewing on the center’s website and YouTube channel within a week.
An African-American jazz saxophonist and composer based in Brooklyn, Mr. George earned a B.A. in neurobiology from Harvard and an M.A. in jazz composition from the New England Conservatory. He has defined his mission as the development of his own style as a creative innovator of African-American music, “and to help in elevating communities of underprivileged youth through music and other cultural education.”
Mr. George will be accompanied by Sami Stevens, vocals; Manuel Schmiedel, piano; Alon Near, bass, and Adam Arruda, drums.
Digital History
The Shelter Island Historical Society has received a $125,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to create and install “Digital Tapestry,” a virtual reality experience that will focus on Shelter Island life during the American Revolution.
"Digital Tapestry," using period paintings, will be narrated by "Captain James Havens and his wife, Elizabeth," who owned and lived in Havens House on Shelter Island during the Revolutionary War years. Now home to the historical society, Havens House was built in 1743.
The exhibition is scheduled to open in the spring at the Shelter Island History Center.
