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JOHN HUSTON’S THE DEAD

COMES TO SAG HARBOR CINEMA

FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING 

January 6, 2023 / 6 PM

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A Q&A with cinematographer Fred Murphy and producer Chris Sievernich

will follow the screening

Film Adaptation of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’

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 John Huston’s last film, The Dead, adapted from James Joyce’s final short story in the Dubliners collection, comes to Sag Harbor Cinema January 6th, at 6pm, for a special screening in 35mm, followed by a Q&A with the film’s cinematographer, Fred Murphy, and producer Chris Sievernich. 

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“When The Dead opened posthumously, at the end of 1987, it carried such an aura of magic –it felt both solemn and luminous, intimate and grand. It emanated the effortless quality of a “home movie” as seen by a great, old master. It was a most beautiful goodbye gift on his part. That magic remains undiminished today, I am thrilled that we can screen the film, in a rare 35mm print kindly made available to us by the Library of Congress; and in the presence of Fred Murphy and Chris Sievernich, who were on Huston’s set,” says SHC’s Founding Artistic Director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan.

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Set in 1904 Dublin, on the night of the Epiphany, The Dead takes place at a dinner party hosted by two elderly sisters and their niece. James Joyce’s work was personal to John Huston, who spent many years in Ireland, where his daughter Anjelica, starring in the film alongside Donal Mccan, was born. The director, working from a script written by his son Tony, captured one of the greatest short stories of all time, and a hard to film one,  despite the fact that –while working on this passion project– he was bound to an oxygen tank and a wheelchair. Production wrapped in April of 1987 and Huston died at the end of August that same year.

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The New York Times’ Vincent Canby said of Huston in his Critic’s Pick review of The Dead, “his talent was not only unimpaired, it was also richer, more secure and bolder than it had ever been. No other American filmmaker has ended a comparably long career on such a note of triumph.”

Tickets for the screenings will be available for purchase at sagharborcinema.org.

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For more information on the film, see details below:

THE DEAD

Dir. John Huston

UK/Ireland, 1987; 83 mins, in English and Irish Gaelic

Rated PG

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The Dead is the concluding novella in James Joyce’s Dubliners collection, published in 1912. Set at an after-Christmas party, it is an ingeniously wrought parable of caution against certainty in all things, most particularly the covenant of love.

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Anjelica and Donal McCann, a major Irish theater actor, play Gretta and Gabriel Conroy, a bourgeois couple who bear the weight of Joyce’s morality tale. Adapted for the screen by Tony Huston, Anjelica Huston’s older brother, The Dead was a long-cherished dream come true for her father, who directed a large, ensemble cast of Irish actors.

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Sag Harbor Cinema

As a not-for-profit 501(c)3, community-based organization, Sag Harbor Cinema is dedicated to presenting the past, present and future of the Movies and to preserving and educating about films, filmmaking, and the film-going experience in its three state-of-the-art theaters. The Cinema engages its audiences and the community year-round through dialogue, discovery, and appreciation of the moving image – from blockbusters to student shorts and everything in between. Revitalized and reimagined through unprecedented community efforts to rebuild the iconic Main Street structure after a fire nearly destroyed it in 2016, SHC continues a long historic tradition of entertainment in the heart of Sag Harbor Village. SHC Members enjoy discounts on tickets and merchandise and have access to our member-only rooftop lounge, The Green Room. 

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AAQ / Resource: Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects

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