EDITORIAL
Bird song
A strange quirk in Twitter's algorythm managed to see the Christopher Nolan Batman movie The Dark Knight trend as a romantic comedy film on the social media site. The trending was down to a simple miscalculated algorithm, but that certainly didn't stop people having a good laugh about it. "The love story and chemistry between Batman and the Joker was what everyone remembers about the classic Rom-Com, The Dark Knight" one user wrote in response to the post...
Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,
Jean Constant
In 2016 a fire nearly destroyed the only arthouse cinema on the East End of Long Island. Five years and $18 million dollars later, the iconic, century-old Sag Harbor Cinema is once again open for business. A former whaling village, Sag Harbor, NY, located between Southampton and East Hampton, was at one point a thriving working-class community full of artists like John Steinbeck. In recent years, deep pocketed homeowners flooded the sleepy enclave, creating more traffic and fancier village haunts. But despite the influx of affluence, Sag Harbor has managed to uphold its small-town, subdued, artistic vibe. The village’s Main Street is home to Sag Harbor Cinema. Built to host vaudeville and burlesque shows in the 1890s, the venue become a silent movie house that evolved to show talkies. In 1978 Gerald Mallow bought the single-screen theater, which he owned until selling for $8 million in 2017... 