Most of The Seagull was shot at Arrow Park in Monroe, in Orange County.

Laurent Rejto gets a personal shout-out at the end of Michael Mayer’s new screen version of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, and it helped this reviewer to walk out of the cinema with a big smile on her face, even while shaking her head, thinking, “Oh, those gloomy Slavs.” These days, with our region becoming a hotbed of filming locations, we sometimes have a new kind of closing-credits tidbit to enjoy: an acknowledgment of the helpfulness of the Hudson Valley Film Commission. There might be some hilarious blooper outtakes (if you’ve never seen the bit that was left on the cutting-room floor because Peter Sellers simply couldn’t get through it without cracking up, you owe it to yourself to buy, rent or borrow a copy of Being There posthaste). There might be a new rendition of the potential winner of next year’s Best Original Song Oscar, or a heartbreaking “in memoriam” dedication of the film to someone whose last work it was. If it’s a product from the Marvel Universe, you know that there’s going to be at least one coda scene, maybe more, dropping teasers about the next installment in the ongoing story. The more movies one sees, the more reasons one finds for staying put all the way through the end credits.

(Nicole Rivelli | Sony Pictures Classics) Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan (above), Elisabeth Moss (below), Billy Howle and Corey Stoll star in the film version of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.

Seagull assistant 2018