Lafayette Theatre
97 Lafayette Avenue,
Suffern,
NY
10901
97 Lafayette Avenue,
Suffern,
NY
10901
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Spring Season of Big Screen Classics ready to announce:
4/27 – Judgment at Nuremberg – 1961, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, 35mm
5/4 – Hans Christian Andersen – 1952, Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, 35mm
5/11 – The Vikings – 1958, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, 35mm
5/18 – Sweet Smell of Success – 1957, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner, DCP
5/25 – Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much – 1934, Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, DCP
6/1 – The Stranger – 1946, Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, 35mm
I believe this theatre was written up in the book called “American Theatres of Today”!!
I’m curious as what version of Gone with the Wind is being shown today? I’m guessing a 1.33 Academy ratio and likely 35mm. The 1998 restoration was said to have problems. Perhaps an older print?
The HorrorThon starts tonight! All prints & digital have arrived – prints look great.
But can Dr. Cyclops watch The Mad Magician in 3D with only one eye? Inquiring minds want to know… :)
The Shining
The Wolf Man
Dracula’s Daughter
Drive-in Double Feature: Pit & the Pendulum PLUS The Premature Burial
Dr. Cyclops
The Black Room
The Mad Magician in Polarized Real-D 3-D – East Coast Premiere.
Hi Peter,
I know it was mentioned last Saturday, but what are the films for this year’s Horror-Thon ?
Glad you enjoyed it. Feel free: bigscreenclassics (at) gmail.com
Hi Peter,
Thank you for the great rousing season-opener with “The Guns of Navarrone” this morning… had a great time. Peter, may I ask a question ? Is there a different-mail (other than the Cinema Treasure board) that I can use to contact you regarding some questions I have about the Lafayette, in general ? Thanks, I hope I can touch base with you soon. Bob
DCP is the industry term for Digital Cinema Package; ie the hard disk containing a 2K version (in our case) of the movie as sent by the studio. If we were running a Blu or DVD, we would say so.
What’s DCP mean, 2k or disc from DVD or Blu ray?
THE FALL 2012 SEASON, Saturday mornings at 11:30am
9/22 – THE GUNS OF NAVARONE – Gregory Peck, David Niven, DCP
9/29 – MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954) – Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman , 35mm
10/6 – LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP – new restored 35mm print!
10/13 – RED RIVER – John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, 35mm
10/20 – Horror-Thon weekend
10/27 – YOU CAN’T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN – W.C. Fields, 35mm
11/3 – THE TRAIN – Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, 35mm
11/10 – Frank Capra’s YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, DCP
11/17 – THE KILLERS – Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, 35mm
11/24 – A SHOT IN THE DARK – Peter Sellers, 35mm
12/1 – THIS GUN FOR HIRE – Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, 35mm
12/8 – IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – James Stewart, DCP
When I first saw the schedule, I knew I’d be missing “The Woman in the Window” because I’d be out of town then — and it killed me on Saturday morning, driving up I-71 in Ohio, thinking about the feature about to begin! Really sorry to miss it. Otherwise, it was an all too brief but really fine spring season, and I look forward to the fall one.
Thanks. The fall season will start on either September 15 or 22.
Hi Peter, Great way to end the Spring season. “The Woman In the Window”, interesting , low-key thriller. Thoroughly engrossing rarely-seen Edward G. Robinson. (Now, how about “Red House”?) Did Nelson happen to mention when the fall BSC season opener would be? Sept, Oct.? (I know too early too tell, but BSC always leaves you “clamoring for more”) As always, great job guys.
Yes, prints are getting scarcer. I would prefer to run prints whenever possible, but if the studios make good digital versions of titles that do not have prints available, I’ll use them (like we did with Bye Bye Birdie, African Queen, etc.).
Hi Peter, Great line up for the Spring season of BSC. Always great to have a Peter Sellers/Woody Allen film in the line up. Are fine 35mm prints getting hard to come buy? I notice there six films for the Spring season as compared to the usual 12 or 13. Will BSC classics be relying more on digital presentations as time goes by ?
Just finished inspecting and setting up the 35mm print for THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES tomorrow morning. Absolutely mint, no scratches or wear that I could detect. Looks like it’s been run no more than a handful of times. It will look spectacular on-screen.
Funny :) . Just got the final dates confirmed, here we go:
4/7 – PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
4/14 – WHAT’S NEW, PUSSYCAT
4/21 – MOULIN ROUGE (1952)
4/28 – DEAD END (1937)
5/5 – VERA CRUZ
5/12 – WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
All in 35mm.
Wow, “Awaiting Confirmation” must be a great film since you are running it twice in one season!
Seriously, I’m looking forward to the return of Big Screen Classics.
Yes, we’re starting on April 7 – the first show will be PRIDE OF THE YANKEES.
4/7 – PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
4/14 – awaiting confirmation
4/21 – MOULIN ROUGE (1952)
4/28 – awaiting confirmation
5/5 – VERA CRUZ
5/12 – WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
All in 35mm. Just waiting for paperwork on the 4/14 and 4/28 titles.
Peter, Has a date in April been set yet for the Spring Season opener for Big Screen Classics?
Hi Peter, May I take this moment to wish you and Nelson and the entire Lafayette family a very happy and peaceful holiday sesaon. Thank you for a terrific fall Big Screen Classics season. (“Wichester ‘73” was a first for me.) As always, looking forward to the Spring Season. Do I have my facts straight, you’ll be back in February?
Thanks Chas, glad you enjoyed the show you made that weekend. As we announced, I ran that red reel as a demo so everyone understood why the program change – the Madhouse was even worse than that. Birdie should be great – brand new digital ‘print’ from Sony with 5.1 stereo track.
MPol – it happens. We’ve been lucky in the 9 years of our programs that it’s only happened a couple of times. Not a bad track record for almost 300 different shows in that time.
Sorry to hear about the prints of some of the films for the scheduled “HorrorThon” at the Lafayette Theatre, Peter, Jeff, Marcel and ChasSmith. That sounds like a real drag, and it’s unfortunate that MGM never bothered to make newer, better prints of “Hounds of the Baskervilles” and “Madhouse”. That must’ve put a stain on the whole program. Sorry to hear and read about that.