Harvey Weinstein, the film producer and co-founder with his brother, Bob, of the Weinstein Company and Miramax Films, has purchased the rights to “A Speck in the Sea,” Paul Tough’s New York Times Magazine story about the rescue at sea of John Aldridge, a Montauk lobsterman who fell overboard during the night in shark-filled waters 40 miles south of Long Island.

    “Paul’s piece in the Times magazine was one of those that instantly struck us as a film that had to be made,” Mr. Weinstein commented in Variety. In addition to Mr. Weinstein, the producers are Jason Blum and Rachael Horovitz, who was in East Hampton when the rescue story broke.

    Christian Scheider, an actor and filmmaker from Sag Harbor, is hosting three screenings of films by Jacques Tati at the John Jermain Memorial Library in that village starting Wednesday at 5 p.m. with “The Big Day.” Tati, who died in 1982 at the age of 75, was a French comic actor, writer, and director whose recurring character was Mr. Hulot, a self-effacing man at odds with modern society.

    Each program will include a brief introduction before the screening and a guided discussion afterward. The discussions will focus on the sociological critique of streamlined, fast-paced industrialization in Tati’s work. The other films to be shown are “Les Vacances de M. Hulot” on Jan. 29 and “Mon Oncle” on Feb. 5. Preregistration is required. The fee is $20 for the series, which is limited to 14 participants.

    Guild Hall’s free winter film series, presented in partnership with the East Hampton Library, is screening “Teddy Bear,” a Danish film about a lonely, 38-year-old bodybuilder’s quest for love, on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in the John Drew Theater.

    Directed by Mads Matthiesen, the story follows Dennis, played by Kim Kold, a champion Danish bodybuilder, from the tiny Copenhagen apartment he shares with his diminutive, emasculating mother to Thailand, where he meets Toi, a friendly woman who owns a local bodybuilding gym. The late-adult coming-of-age story won the World Cinema Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

    Prentiss Dunn, a noted musicologist who has taught at the Vienna campus of Webster University since 2001, will return to the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton for his annual lecture series. Mr. Dunn will speak on five consecutive Sundays at 2 p.m., starting this weekend. According to the library, “Prentiss has a few tricks up his sleeve. These lectures are not to be missed.”

    “Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington,” a new play by Clare Coss, will have its world premiere tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Castillo Theatre in New York City. The play captures the two founders of the N.A.A.C.P. — W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington — at a moment of crisis in 1915, when Du Bois submits his letter of resignation.

    Du Bois, an educator, human rights activist, and African-American visionary leader, and Ovington, a white, Unitarian granddaughter of abolitionists and an outspoken justice advocate, spar, flirt, clash, reveal secrets, and compete to save their vital work. The play stars Timothy Simonson and Kathleen Chalfant in the title roles.

    Ms. Coss is a playwright, psychotherapist, and activist whose plays have engaged a wide range of social and political issues. She is a member of PEN, the Dramatists Guild, the League of Professional Theatre Women, and the Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society. She and Blanche Wiesen Cook, a historian and author of a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, are longtime residents of Springs.

    The Watermill Center’s screening of “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” originally announced for Dec. 14 but canceled because of a snowstorm, has been rescheduled for Sunday at 4 p.m. The feature-length documentary film takes us from the artist’s preparation for her 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art through the three months of its duration.

    The screening will be followed by a conversation with Brittany Bailey, Abigail Levine, and Elke Luyten, dance-performance artists who appeared in the MOMA exhibition. The program is free, but reservations, which are required, can be made at eventbrite.com.

    Applications are being accepted now through March 12 for the Watermill Center’s International Summer Program, led by Robert Wilson, the center’s artistic director. Individual artists from all disciplines who are interested in working in a collaborative environment have been invited to apply at watermillcenter.slideroom.com.

    The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival has a new executive director. Michael Lawrence, who has served for the past six and a half years as director of artistic planning and initiatives of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, will begin his tenure on Monday.

    Previously, Mr. Lawrence was manager of artists and programs for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and director of artistic programs at the League of American Orchestras, where he directed conductor and composer programs. Mr. Lawrence is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied cello performance and English.

    Marya Martin, festival founder and artistic director, praised Mr. Lawrence’s  “knowledge and love of music, and his enthusiasm for the festival’s future is invigorating and energizing.”

    Long Island’s longest-running classical music festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival features a mix of established and emerging artists performing both classical and new music for four weeks every summer at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

    If it was anyone else, it might be considered a garage sale, a large collection of mostly unrelated objects put out on display perhaps because the owner is redecorating or raising money for another purpose.

    At Kathryn Markel’s gallery space in Bridgehampton, however, that owner is Arlene Bujese, who has spent a lifetime collecting and selling the work of the South Fork artists she has represented and who are also friends. In this case, “Dealer’s Choice” is something more, not quite a full-fledged curated exhibition but a very impressive salon with pieces from her own collection supported by recent contributions by the same or different artists.

    Ms. Bujese has been a loyal and persistent exhibitor of work from artists who were or are working on the South Fork, bringing many of them to the attention of new generations of viewers who might never have known of their contribution and their rank as peers of the best of the New York School artists.

    John Little, who is hardly a household name, has steadily built a posthumous reputation mostly due to the efforts of Ms. Bujese to bring him to the attention of audiences in Washington, D.C., while he was alive, and at Spanierman’s East Hampton gallery, where she organized some of the gallery’s shows after she closed her own gallery in the same space. The Spaniermans were so taken with the artist that they have mounted solo shows in New York City of his work and several other artists who were brought to their attention by Ms. Bujese.

    While there is no organizing principle to the 40 works on view, the individual pieces do share visual affinities with each other. In some cases, there are multiple works by an artist, such as Darlene Charneco, with her painted and nailed wood boards that look like artistic circuitry, and Fulvio Massi, whose paintings here resemble a chaotic Saul Steinberg. Others, such as Calvin Albert and Elaine de Kooning, are mixed in with disparate artists. It allows the viewer a chance to compare and contrast various styles.

    Some of the strongest works are from the Abstract Expressionist period or inspired by it. Mary Abbott’s gouache painting looks similar to a Jackson Pollock painting from the same era but seems fresher and livelier than some of his lesser works we have come to know in the same style. Sharing an affinity for Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning, Little’s works are real standouts and have a vibrancy that makes them look like they were painted yesterday. The Elaine de Kooning paintings have interest and a delicate balance, but are more brooding. James Brooks is another example of a more known painter who still never reached the heights of success of some of his neighbors. His 1970 lithograph “Charbon” is indicative of his style and has an organic, almost Asian feeling about it.

    Although collected by major institutions and a longtime instructor at Pratt, Albert, a sculptor who died in 2007 and studied with Alexander Archipenko and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, might be unfamiliar to most people. Ms. Bujese is showing two strong sculptural works and a knockout Cubist-style drawing that loses nothing to the anachronistic era — 1955 — it was executed in. He lived in East Hampton from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s.

    Two of Carol Hunt’s recent paintings are presented side by side. They are abstract and full of movement, some portions poured in a thin stain and others thick and viscous. Separated by a few years, the works share a similar palette even as they express quite different compositions.

    There are two sculptures by Arline Wingate on view that Ms. Bujese has put up for sale to benefit East End Hospice at the full purchase price. The cast bronze sculptures are from the mid-1960s and are built up with geometric shapes that suggest organic forms along with the titles “Thorn Flower” and “Night Flower.” Ms. Bujese said the donation would have been in keeping with Ms. Wingate’s wishes. The artist died in 1998 and was a good friend of hers.

    With such a wide array of styles and time periods, it is a show that begs multiple viewings. Even just changing viewpoints from the front to the back of the gallery and back again gives new perspectives. The exhibition can be seen through Feb. 2.

    A free screening of “Shored Up,” an 84-minute documentary by Ben Kalina about coastal development, sea level rise, and the science and policy debates surrounding these issues, will be held at the Westhampton Beach Library tonight at 7.

    While the film focuses on Long Beach Island in New Jersey and the Outer Banks in North Carolina, it poses questions relevant to any coastline community and includes footage captured after Superstorm Sandy. The program replaces the regular monthly meeting of the Southampton Citizen Advisory Committee (West) and is open to the public.

    The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will hold open auditions for “The Foreigner,” a comedy by Larry Shue about a shy Englishman’s unexpected adventure at a lodge in rural Georgia, on Sunday and Monday, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Quogue Community Hall.

    Auditions will be held for the roles of Charlie Baker, a British gentleman; “Froggy” LeSueur, a Cockney military man; David Lee, a minister; Catherine Sims, a pretty ex-debutante, and Ellard Sims, Catherine’s simple-minded brother. Rehearsals will begin Feb. 4, with performances scheduled from March 13 through March 30. More information is available at [email protected].