Lafayette Theatre
97 Lafayette Avenue,
Suffern,
NY
10901
97 Lafayette Avenue,
Suffern,
NY
10901
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The SALUTE TO FILM PRESERVATION coming November 12 & 13!
An incredible two-day festival honoring the heroic efforts made by film archives around the world to preserve our motion picture heritage. Rare features and vintage short subjects will be showing, highlighting films photographed in black & white, two-color & three-strip Technicolor, SuperCineColor and 3-D!
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
12:45 pm – ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD
(1952, directed by Charles Lamont, starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Charles Laughton) The East Coast Premiere of the newly created UCLA Film & Television Archive print from the original SuperCineColor elements along with rare Bud & Lou coming attraction trailers and film footage. Featuring a personal appearance and Q & A with Lou’s daughter Chris Costello, moderated by Bob Furmanek & Ron Palumbo (authors of “Abbott and Costello in Hollywoodâ€), in cooperation with the Fort Lee Film Commission.
3:30 pm – DOCTOR X
(1932, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lionel Atwill & Fay Wray)
Presented in Warner Bros. vault print created from the two-color Technicolor materials.
7:15 pm – THE BIG PARADE
(1925, silent, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert)
Presented in a new restored print from Warner Bros. with live accompaniment by John Baratta on the Lafayette Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
1:30 pm – Bob Furmanek presents 3-D FOLLIES
A selection of unique and rare short subjects preserved by the 3-D Film Archive and introduced by 3-D film historian Bob Furmanek. Presented in the miracle of perfected polarized 3-D.
3:30 pm – A STAR IS BORN
(1937, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Fredric March and Janet Gaynor) Presented in a restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive created from the original 3-strip Technicolor negatives.
7:15 pm – Howard Hughes’ HELL’S ANGELS
(1930, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow)
Presented in its full-length original version – complete with color sequences – with a restored print courtesy of Universal Pictures.
More information at the website: http://www.bigscreenclassics.com/preservation.htm
Ain’t it the truth!
Last Saturday was my first trip to the Lafayette from Brooklyn. Standing on line for a 3-D movie made me feel like a kid again ! Entering the theater was a dream come true !You CAN go home again ! The prints & sound of both “House of Wax” and “Son of Frankenstein” were wonderful, and seeing Bela in a movie palace almost had me in tears ! Showmanship indeed ! Everyone out there needs to spread the word ! Bring your family & childhood friends ! Thank you Peter and everyone !
Don’t forget the big HORRORTHON this weekend, October 22 & 23:
Universal horror, Hammer Horror, silent horror, modern horror, and House of Wax in double-system polarized 3-D!
See ya' there!
http://www.bigscreenclassics.com/horrorthon.htm
I don’t think you’d find a single theater in the area that didn’t go through a period of crappy movies either before it closed and was demolished (like the Central), or reborn like the Lafayette.
I don’t know, Bob … I have a feeling “Farewell Uncle Tom” (rated X) is probably more interesting than 90% of the movies playing in theaters today.
Boy, 1972 sure was a terrible year for movies!
1972 “Oh Calcutta” at popular prices :)
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Well, I’m looking forward to the Fall season starting this Saturday. Can’t wait to see ON THE TOWN! See ya there.
‘Cry Uncle’ was not porno. It was a mainstream release by the director of ‘Joe’. Remember ‘Midnight Cowboy has a X rating when released.
This has gotta be the first time an ad used gay prostitution to sell a movie. Leave it to Otto Preminger to break another taboo:
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1971: Like everybody else, the Lafayette was showing X-rated movies:
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Look directly above the Lafayette ad. You can see evidence of the end of one great acting career (Joan Crawford in “Trog”) and the beginning of another (Bob De Niro in “Born to Win”).
The Lafayette was showing this crowd-pleaser in August 1965:
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“2001: A Space Odyssey” wasn’t nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, and this ad from March 1969 seems to be a response to that. Notice the many theaters playing the movie. Not only do several of them no longer exist, but only one would actually get to play the movie again in the 21st century. You only get one guess :)
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The Bergen Record has ads featuring the Lafayette. I’m going to put together some time over the remainder of the summer at the the Hackensack Library going through the microfilms.
Pete,
Is there a way to research the Lafayette’s past and find old newspaper (microfilm) ads as to what played there in year’s past?? NY Times??
Even the Lafayette played “Nana” on showcase LOL
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Hi I’m in need…of inside picture’s of the movie theater…my boyfriends father is a well now artist in the deal nj area…he would love to do a few oil painting of the lafayette theater…please can someone help me find some pic’s…
Thanks Rachael
November 1974 the Lafayette had the exclusive Rockland showing of the X rated “Flesh Gordon”.
I am really looking forward to next weekends showing of “Yankee Doodle Dandy”, anyone else going?
I can’t say for cerain Robert, but I believe that UA had it until the late 70s. I have a copies of newspaper ads from 1954 showing it as a Skouras Theatre and from 1966-69 showing it as a UA theatre, so they got it sometime after the mid-50s.
I’m going to spend time this summer at the microfilm reader trying to put together a definitive playlist & history to use for an upcoming event and will post it here when it’s complete.
Pete Apruzzese
Director of Film Programming
Big Screen Classics at the Lafayette Theatre
I have an ad from 11/14/69 when “I Am Curious Yellow” was playing at the Lafayette. It is advertised at the time as being a UA theatre. How long did they operate the Lfayette?
It was a great article and great pics of the interior. I think that more people will want to venture out to see the theater now. It’s too bad the Bigscreen Classic series is coming to an end for the Summer.
A very nice article featuring the Lafayette Theatre appeared in today’s Bergen Record “Go” section centerfold. The print version includes two nice interior shots.
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Thanks for the nice comments Irv, Richard, and Peter. See you at Godzilla this Saturday!
Pete Apruzzese
Director of Film Programming
Big Screen Classics at the Lafayette Theatre