Friday Flashback: Rest in Peace, Joel Schumacher

We join the film community in mourning the loss of legendary director Joel Schumacher, who passed away today at the age of 80. Former HamptonsFilm Advisory Board Chair Jeffrey Sharp shares his fond remembrances.   It seemed fitting to honor director Joel Schumacher as part of the 2014 Hamptons International Film Festival. The Hamptons had […]

Friday Flashback: Alfre Woodard

This week in our Friday Flashback series, we are offering a previously unreleased conversation from a past HamptonsFilm event.   At our 27th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival last fall, we presented Chinonye Chukwu‘s CLEMENCY, starring the incomparable Alfre Woodard. CLEMENCY received critical praise at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand […]

Friday (Tuesday) Flashback: Alec Baldwin + ‘PEACE OFFICER’

PEACE OFFICER is a timely and important documentary examining how policing has changed over the past thirty years. Given the protests happening today throughout the country and the world, we decided to revisit this deep dive into how we got here—not regarding race relations per se, but about how police training has evolved into its […]

Friday Flashback: Annette Bening

Each week in our Friday Flashback series, we are offering all HamptonsFilm members access to a previously unreleased conversation from a past HamptonsFilm event.   Join today for access to this conversation, and more in the weeks to come. We will send you this week’s password upon joining, and new videos and passwords each week […]

Family Film: ‘HUGO’ by Martin Scorsese

HamptonsFilm is pleased to offer a weekly recommendation of a family film for all ages. HUGO Directed by Martin Scorsese (2011, UK| USA | FRANCE, 127 minutes) “Scorsese has created an exquisite jewel box of a movie, polished and honed to glittering, diamond-hard brilliance.” — The Guardian Living inside a Paris train station, an orphan […]