The Hamptons International Film Festival will include three films with Long Island connections in its annual festival on Columbus Day weekend.

    “Big Shot,” a featured documentary, is by Kevin Connolly, a Patchogue native known for his role as Eric in “Entourage,” a former HBO series. It is about the New York Islanders hockey team and how the team was conned by a Texas millionaire. It will be shown on ESPN this fall.

    “The Maid’s Room” by Michael Walker, which is set in the Hamptons and was filmed in Bayport last year, will be one of the narrative films in the festival. The Star wrote about the film last year. The festival describes it as a thriller about a young woman from Colombia who works as a maid for a couple played by Annabella Sciorra and Philip Ettinger.

    The third feature in the section is “Kiss the Water” by Eric Steel, who grew up in Bridgehampton. In this documentary, the subject is Megan Boyd, an expert fly-maker in Scotland. She has worked for decades on the outskirts of Scotland making some of the best flies ever made, some even collected as folk art pieces. The film examines her art and personality as well as the fly-fishing art.

    The short films program includes “Miss Todd,” directed by Kistrina Yee, the premiere of “Lost Thoughts” by Jeff Scher, and Cody Blue Snider’s “Fool’s Day.”

    According to the festival, the View From Long Island section includes work by regional filmmakers, is set on the Island, or tackles social and political issues facing the East End community.

    The festival will run from Oct. 4 through 8. Ticket packages are on sale now at hamptonsfilmfest.org.

   Harris Yulin and Mercedes Ruehl will star in a reading of William Douglas Home’s comedy “The Kingfisher” on Saturday at 8 p.m. at Guild Hall. Mr. Yulin will direct.

    The play is centered on the love affair of Cecil and Evelyn, both in their 70s, she recently widowed after 50 years of marriage. They were in love once before that, and now Cecil is determined to have her once and for all. The humorous practicalities of physical love at a certain age and a fussy butler add to the humor in this romantic comedy.

    Tickets are $25 and $23 for members with free tickets for students the night of the performance, based on availability.

   The Picture Show, Bay Street Theatre’s off-season classic-film series, will begin this weekend with a salute to Gene Kelly. “An American in Paris” will be shown tomorrow and “For Me and My Gal” will be screened on Saturday, both at 8 p.m.

    Leslie Caron joins Kelly in “An American in Paris” as his love interest, a young French girl engaged to a cabaret singer. He is an artist who finds a patron whose interests stretch beyond his paintings. The movie includes several musical numbers with Kelly singing and dancing with the cast.

    “For Me and My Gal” is set in World War I and stars Judy Garland as a vaudeville performer who teams up with Kelly’s character. A draft dodger, he injures his hand to avoid joining the Army, but eventually has a change of heart in this patriotic musical.

    Tickets are $7 at the door. Beginning this week, Il Capuccino will offer a $28 prix fixe dinner and a movie package. Further movie titles and restaurants will be announced soon.

   On Columbus Day weekend, Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre will present Betty Buckley in “The Vixens of Broadway.”

   Always popular, Ms. Buckley’s shows typically sell out. In this one, at 8 p.m. on Oct. 12, she will present songs from both classic and contemporary Broadway shows. She has starred in such Broadway productions as “Cats,” “Sunset Boulevard,” and “Pippin” and has won a number of awards.

    Tickets, available now at the box office or at baystreet.org, are $50 to $75, with $100 V.I.P. tickets including an after-party with Ms. Buckley.

   Tomorrow, the Parrish Art Museum will continue its East End or Busk concert series on its terrace at sunset with the Ebony Hillbillies, New York street musicians, with an accompanying barbecue menu presented by the Art of Eating in the museum’s café. The concert is free with the $10 museum admission, or free for members.

    The Hillbillies, based in New York City, are one of the last black string bands in the United States. The band includes Henrique Prince playing violin, Norris Bennett on banjo, mountain dulcimer, and guitar, William Salter on acoustic bass, Newman Taylor Baker providing washboard and percussion, and Gloria Thomas Gassaway on bones.

    All of the performers also sing and their musical selections take their sources from pop, country, bluegrass, folk, rock, and jazz. Original compositions are mixed with classics such as “Cotton Eyed Joe” and more contemporary songs such as Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing.”

Printmaking Workshop

    Guild Hall is offering an open studio workshop with Dan Welden, with sessions on Friday, Sept. 20, from 9 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m. and on Sept. 21 at the same times.

    Participants will make an etching using the solar plate technique, which Mr. Welden has adopted and adapted to make greener and safer etchings without dangerous chemicals, according to his Web site. Images are set on a plate sensitized to light and developed using tap water.

    Each session is $35 or $25 for members. Registration is available through Michelle Klein at michelle@guildhall. org.

Freeman at Tripoli

    A solo exhibition by Eric Freeman titled “New Paintings” is next up at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton. The gallery has included the artist in a number of group shows, but this is the first time it has devoted its entire space to him.

     The gallery describes the paintings as ephemeral: “While we understand that these works are fastened to the canvas, that the paint is permanent once dried, there is an ever-evolving quality to their surface.”

    Using oils, the artist experiments with the combination of elements in the buildup of paint. “Freeman applies layer upon layer, thinning them out intermittently — a process through which he creates different surfaces for light refraction to occur at various speeds, allowing the light to actually bounce between each layer resulting in a backlit quality,” the gallery said.

    The artist, who earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Tufts University, has shown at many international galleries and museums. He lives and works in Sagaponack.

Coming Up at Ashawagh

    The off-season is hopping at Asha­wagh Hall this year, with two shows this week.

    “Of Mees and Mim” will open Saturday morning with a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. The show will feature the work of Marcie Honerkamp and Adrienne Mim and will remain on view through  Sunday.

    Beginning Monday, Stephanie Whiston’s striking underwater photography will be on view in a show titled “Oceans Matter.” The show will have an educational and philanthropic aspect with Ms. Whiston leading discussions on Monday and Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. A reception on Tuesday will benefit the Marine Education Foundation. The show will be up through next Thursday.

Gruen’s “Young

In the Hamptons”

    “Young in the Hamptons: Photographs of the 1950s and 1960s by John Jonas Gruen” will be on view at Susan Ely Fine Art in New York City beginning Wednesday. A reception will be held Wednesday night from 6 to 8 p.m.    Mr. Gruen captured his friends and colleagues at an apparently carefree and quieter time on the South Fork where paint and booze flowed freely. His collection of images, shown in parts in exhibitions in galleries and as part of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, documents moments in the lives of key artistic personalities be they painters, poets, musicians, composers, conductors, dancers, or actors.

    The gallery will show a selection made by Mr. Gruen and his assistant and co-editor Sam Swasey of 35 images through Oct. 31.

Ooh La La in Sag

    The Monika Olka Gallery in Sag Harbor will show paintings by Philippe Heurtaux beginning Saturday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. The French artist works in acrylic on canvas with resin, adding gloss and depth to the surface of visible brushstrokes. The colorful compositions are abstract and stunning.

    The exhibition will be on view through Oct. 14.

Catch Sciulli

On Governor’s Island

    Christine Sciulli, an artist living in Amagansett with her family, will have a work on view at the Governor’s Island Art Fair through September.

    “Languid,” a 60-by-30-inch site-specific HD video projection, is installed in the attic space at 404A Colonels Row. Viewing hours are Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Ned Smyth in New York

    Ned Smyth, who has a studio on Shelter Island, will show work at Salomon Contemporary in West Chelsea beginning today.

    “Those Who Remember” will have an opening reception tonight from 6 to 8 and will remain on view through Nov. 2. The sculptor works in various materials including bronze, stone, and cast concrete in abstracted organic and geometric forms.

Chinese Culture in Montauk

    On Sunday at 3:30 p.m., the Montauk Library will present “Chinese Culture, A Treasure the World Can Share,” a free talk by George Wei. The slide lecture will cover the artistic, literary, and philosophical legacy of China’s past. 

    Dr. Wei is an engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Sustainable Energy Technologies Department, where his research focuses on ways to make oil and gas equipment more efficient while reducing pollution. His talk will examine the foundations of China’s culture and explore dance and musical instruments, among other topics.

Film Series

At Pollock-Krasner House

    The South Fork’s fall art season has arrived and with it familiar friends such as the Pollock-Krasner House’s annual fall film series have returned. This year the series will look at connections artists here make to each other, their environment, and their audience. Marion Wolberg Weiss has organized the series and will lead discussions about the films after they are screened. Each film is $5 at the door and will be screened on Friday evenings at 7 p.m.

    On Friday, Sept. 20, “Jackson Pollock: Portrait,” a film from 1984, will examine the artist’s relationships to Lee Krasner, his wife, and other artists. His connections to the places where he lived, such as the West and in Springs, will also be explored. The film was originally made as part of the PBS “Stroke of Genius” series.

    “Eames: The Architect and the Painter,” from 2011, will look at Charles and Ray Eames as a couple famous for design, but who also touched on architecture, photography, and science in their creative pursuits. They were friends of Pollock and Krasner.

    The last film in the series will screen on Oct. 4, “The Visual Language of Herbert Matter.” Also from 2011, the documentary reveals Matter’s influence on graphic design and his work in photography and film. Matter, who was also a painter, was friendly with both the Pollocks and the Eameses.

    The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will once again host the OLA Film Festival, presented by the Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island this weekend.

    The festival, now 10 years old, will open tomorrow at 5 p.m. with “Inocente,” a 40-minute film that won an Academy Award this year for best documentary. It is about a young homeless woman who wants to be an artist. Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine directed. After the screening, Mambo Loco will perform Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music.

    On Saturday, “Tanta Agua,” a narrative film from Uruguay, will be screened at 3 p.m. It follows a father determined to have quality time with his children on an ill-fated and rainy resort vacation. The film was directed by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge.

    Then on Sunday, the festival will conclude at 3 p.m. with the Chilean documentary “Salvador Allende.” Patricio Guzman’s film focuses on the U.S.-backed military overthrow of the socialist Chilean government. Allende was elected president in 1970 and deposed three years later by Augusto Pinochet. He committed suicide before being taken prisoner. In the dictatorship that followed, his followers were targets of repression, left in exile, or executed.

    Tickets for each film cost $10 and are free for members, students, and children. The Mambo Loco performance is free with museum admission.

   Wendi Blair holds many jobs, but her favorite is that of photographer. For the last year, in rain, snow, wind, and hail, she has iced up and packed out fish for shipping from the dock at Inlet Seafood in Montauk.

    She has the biceps to prove it, but she also has enough photographs from her experience to stage a monthlong exhibit, “A Tribute to Fishermen,” at the Montauk Library. It began with an opening reception on Sunday and is open to visitors during the library’s regular business hours though the end of the month.

    From her tiny apartment on East Lake Drive overlooking Lake Montauk, she has organized her photographs to create a series of collages depicting fishermen in action, their gear, dock dogs, salt-stained hauling nets, basket loads of just-caught fish, and vessels belonging to a corporate group of commercial fishermen who own the pack-out marina and Inlet Seafood restaurant on the same property.

    She started working on the project in February. Each collage is framed in weathered beach fencing, some adorned with seashells and twigs of driftwood. Monofilament fishing wire is attached to each frame for hanging the collection from the cool, white walls of the library’s lower level.

    The photographer said she hopes she has caught in images what Montauk is all about. “Fishing is a lifestyle in Montauk. It’s not some passing trend that flows out of town with the tides. This is one of the many reasons I wanted to present this tribute, because of the passion and commitment that people who fish here have, and that to me is a highly regarded and respected profession,” she said.

    Ms. Blair has fished and taken pictures her whole life. Her grandfather would take her fishing at other areas on Long Island, and he always wore a collared shirt and tie for their outings. Her father bought her a camera when she was 4 years old. “I’ve literally been shooting for 45 years,” she said, smiling at the thought. “I like nautical. I grew up on the water and have always lived near the water. There’s just something about the salt air.”

    Packing out fish is hard work that entails lining a thick cardboard box with ice, packing the fish into it, and then covering them with more ice before sealing the box to be shipped. The brown boxes are a common sight throughout the harbor area. She said the job was tedious, physical, repetitive, and grueling. “But I never got sick of it; it was so challenging,” she said.

    When Ms. Blair worked dockside last winter she was the only woman around the boats. “All the guys, every single one of them, encouraged me and treated me like an equal,” she said. They also gave her some tips on staying warm on the coldest of days. “It’s all in the layers. It was cold but you do learn how to dress for it.”

    Some days her job required driving to the Hunts Point Fish Market in the Bronx to deliver oysters and pick up mussels, always with her camera beside her. She didn’t mind the journey, short as it was, because that’s another part of her life, traveling the world. She has already visited 100 cities in 15 counries and has a collection of over 30,000 images stockpiled. She photographs weddings, family portraits, and outdoor functions and makes greeting cards. She is on the Web at wendiwithaneye.com.

    The exhibit is the fourth that Ms. Blair will have had at the library. She is hoping this one will catch someone’s eye, possibly a restaurant owner who would like to decorate the walls of an establishment with authentic scenes from the no-longer-sleepy little fishing village.

    “I hope someone sees it and says, ‘Wow, this is Montauk. This is the essence of what this place is all about,’ ” she said.

   The problem with acting in the theater, as opposed to film and television, is the live audience, Emily Mortimer said recently at the modest Amagansett farmhouse she and her husband, Alessandro Nivola, bought five years ago. “Everyone in the audience has paid for a ticket and suspended their disbelief; they’re counting on you and you’ve got only one shot. I’m always afraid I will break the illusion by shouting something like ‘Fuck the Queen.’ ”

    Lucky for her, then, that she’s been able to put the plays she did at school in London and at Oxford University largely behind her. Ms. Mortimer, a lead in Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama “Newsroom,” about the inner workings of a cable TV news program, has appeared in at least 40 film and television productions. Joining her in the cast of “Newsroom,” now in its second season, are Sam Waterston, Jeff Daniels, Jane Fonda, and Marcia Gay Harden, among many others.

    Often asked how hard it is to learn the dialogue, which can only be called abundant, she said, “The challenges are similar to Shakespearean acting: How do I learn the lines and also learn the rhythm of the dialogue, and how do I honor it? Sorkinese — I didn’t coin the term — is a language in and of itself that’s inverse. You have to honor it, and it won’t serve you at all well to try and make it your own language. It’s very stylized and you have to honor the style and make it sound your own.”

    Recognizing this was one of the many “moments of illumination” she has had over the past two years. Another was realizing that she had to listen to the music of the scene “and if you listen hard enough, you can realize what your own little section is. It’s as near as I’ve ever come to making music.”

    In the Sorkin style of dialogue, actors have to learn to speak over one another in a kind of endless overlap. Thinking of it as music makes it seem as if learning the lines would not be so difficult if one had the rhythm down. Not so fast, however. As she said, “There’s no winging it. You have to go home and learn it every night. And if one person doesn’t have it totally under their belt, the whole thing kind of falls apart.”

    Even though this season, “actors flubbing their lines happened less,” when it does happen, “you feel so much love for them and so elated when it’s not you who’s fucking up,” she said.

    There are five days between the read-through and the filming. If big scenes are at the end of the episode one feels very lucky, she said. “When it works out and we’re all sort of on our game and the stars are aligned, it does feel magical and it feels like a great good luck to be a part of it.”

    Oh, and the technical part of all that button pushing on the set, which is what goes on behind the talking head the viewers are watching? “No one knows what the hell we’re doing when we’re pushing buttons on all the machines, but we do it very authoritatively,” Ms. Mortimer said.

    Ms. Mortimer spoke of a subliminal familiarity she has felt working with Mr. Sorkin. He is similar in character, she said, to her father, the late John Mortimer, an English barrister, author, playwright, and creator of Horace Rumpole, the disheveled, irreverent defender of the British criminal classes. “The way he educated me and all his kids is something I hold so dear. His whole thing was the paradoxical nature of people. You can be a good person and kill someone and you can be a perfectly awful person and never get a parking ticket . . . everybody’s more than one thing, which has helped me a lot, not just in life. There was something radically unjudgmental about him.”

    As an extremely left-wing barrister, her father was passionate about prison reform. In honor of him, Ms. Mortimer has continued to visit prisons. Since moving to Brooklyn with Mr. Nivola and their two young children, Ms. Mortimer has gone once a month to visit the women in a female detention center. Although her schedule doesn’t allow for it right now, she said “I’m hoping to get back into it. It’s incredibly rewarding. The main feeling you come away with is ‘There but for the grace. . . .’ ”

    Ms. Mortimer was an only child until she was 12. A shy child, she may have turned to theater for some solace, she said. “I’d write little plays for my parents and act them out.” She went on to read English and Russian at Oxford, where, in her last semester, she was spotted onstage by an agent who took her on and proceeded to get her parts in “sub-BBC historical costume dramas,” she recalled.

    Her father, who had often defended people’s right to produce pornography, went with her to films in which she had to get naked. He would take off his glasses so he could sort of see something, she said, but it was more of a rosy glow.

    One such occasion was the time Ms. Mortimer was filming “Lovely and Amazing” (2001). It was the first time she did something she was proud of and it was because she “loved the script and wanted to not let it down.” Part of the story was autobiographical for Nicole Holofcener, who wrote and directed it. Not only did Ms. Mortimer have to get naked in the film, but she had to do so while an attractive fellow actor gave her a head-to-toe evaluation.

    “I had this paranoia about not really being an actor — I was sort of an impostor — and didn’t really understand what ‘being in the moment’ really was. So I can remember getting out of the bed naked, stepping on the floor and walking into the studio the scene was being filmed in, and thinking ‘Oh God, this film better be fucking good or this is so mortifying.’ ”

    The result was that she felt no gap between who she was pretending to be at that moment and who she really was. “It was a defining moment for me . . . really a cool feeling. So I wondered if it would be possible to have that feeling without taking my clothes off.”

    She added, “You might as well be the person you’re pretending to be. It’s a strange and seductive kind of feeling.”

    With “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007), a story about a disturbed young man played by Ryan Gosling whose mother died in childbirth and who has been unable to connect with people, he orders a life-size doll and treats her as if she were a real person. “I got sort of jealous of this doll,” Ms. Mortimer said. “She got all of Ryan’s attention and I wanted to tell her to get lost, to stick my finger up her nose,” but it also made her realize how powerful silence can be.

    Until she met her husband, also an actor, on the set of Kenneth Brannagh’s adaptation of “Love’s Labour Lost” in 2000, the theater terrified her, Ms. Mortimer said.

    “Being married to an actor helps with every aspect of getting ready for a part — well the particular actor I’m married to is very helpful and very kind and very bright,” she said. “But I only know what it’s like to be married to him so who knows if a doctor or a farmer or a plumber would be any more or less helpful. It depends on the dude I guess.”

    Life here is centered on their children (Sam, 9, and May, 31/2), the water (bay or beach), and family, which includes visiting Alessandro’s father, Pietro Niv­ola, and his stepmother, Katherine Stahl, in the old Springs farmhouse Costantino and Ruth Nivola bought in the 1940s.

    As for future roles she might want to try, fear seems like a must. “You’re drawn to the things that frighten you. As an actor one is accustomed to ceding control in almost every area.” She speaks nostalgically of making movies. “I look back at movies as being like the halcyon days of my infancy . . . so much less responsibility. You get looked after. It’s so lovely compared to television.”

    The words, in film, are less important than in television. “Writers in TV are gods because of the words. The writer is everything. On a movie set, the writer has to sit on the other side of the room with the animal wranglers and the director is king. It’s more visual and more about the moments between the words,” she said.

    But, being in “The Newsroom,” she added, is “thrilling. This job, constantly challenging and wonderfully so, it’s a high-octane thrill.”

On View at Horowitz

    Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is showing work by Almond Zigmund upstairs through Sept. 22 and will open a show of Adam Stennett’s work on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

    Ms. Zigmund is presenting “Interruptions Repeated (Again and Again),” works on paper and sculpture. A sculpture installation by the artist can also be seen at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum through Tuesday as part of the Parrish Art Museum’s Road Show. Her work is concerned with perception as she attempts to “challenge and destabilize” traditional norms to bring new focus on viewers’ daily navigation of space.

    The show at Glenn Horowitz contains conceptions of works she typically constructs on a much larger scale, in vivid colors and intricate patterns. The artist’s recent works on paper, in acrylic, enamel, and flocking, will also be on view.

    Mr. Stennett, who has just completed a month-long survivalist installation and performance on the South Fork in an undisclosed location, will show the fruits of his experiment, stretching the limits of what constitutes an artist’s residency. His self-developed shack in the wilds of the Hamptons is both serious and absurd in its intent.

    The structure and its provisions will be relocated to the gallery, complete with army cot, solar panels, rain barrel, and compact garden. The works created while he lived in the shack will be on display as individual works and part of the installation, using his surroundings as inspiration for their subject matter. The show will be on view through October.

Modern Architecture Talk

    Those visionaries and personalities that have shaped the modern city for the past few decades will be examined in a talk at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 5 p.m. Martin Filler will discuss his new book “Makers of Modern Architecture, Vol. II: From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaus.”

    His first volume was published in 2007. His is a concise history, but covers architects and their creative output from the late-19th to early-20th centuries. He spends a good deal of time examining their personalities and characters and their bearings on how and what they designed.

Budnik at Kramoris

    Sheryl Budnik’s self-described visceral and “vigorous dance of oil and pigment” landscape paintings will be on view at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor beginning today with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

    The large-scale works are “more about human emotion than specifically about scenes of the sea, or any particular place” composed of paint thickly applied with a palette knife.

    The artist graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.F.A. and received her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin.

    The works will be on view through Sept. 26.