Lafayette Theatre
97 Lafayette Avenue,
Suffern,
NY
10901
97 Lafayette Avenue,
Suffern,
NY
10901
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This is one of New York’s best kept secrets. If you live in the New York City area and haven’t been to the Lafayette yet, you’re really missing something.
The Science Fiction film festival begins tonight! Hope some of the denizens of Cinema Treaures can make a show or two!
Pete Apruzzese
No, we don’t currently have 70mm capability at the Lafayette, but we do have excellent 35mm with DTS Digital stereo and Dolby SR analog stereo sound. 70mm is something we’re considering, but the costs are rather high for the few prints we could get to run.
Pete Apruzzese
Director of Film Programming
Big Screen Classics at the Lafayette Theatre.
I’m sure the sci-fi festival will be a success! I’m hoping we will also have one in the DC/Balto metro area soon. I didn’t see mention of this theater having 70mm projection capabilities. Does anyone know if it does? Their website doesn’t indicate that it can.
The Spectacular Science Fiction film festival is coming! Get a load of this lineup:
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How I love this theater – all my wonderful childhood memories are nestled in this building – hot pop-corn, ju-jubes and cokes! Scary movies, huddling with my little friends sure that the giant octopus would snatch us. Little flirtations, first dates, joys and tears of childhood – first “grown-up” movie – Three Coins in the Fountain" and I saw the original Lawrence of Arabia in this theater!
How happy I am that it is here to stay. I am going this weekend.
MY HUSBAND AND I ATTENDED LAURENCE OF ARABIA A FEW MONTHS AGO. I WAS ACTUALLY NOT TOO THRILLED ABOUT SEEING A MOVIE THAT LASTED 4+ HOURS, BUT SEEING THIS FILM ON A BIG SCREEN MADE ME FORGET ABOUT THE LENGTH OF TIME. I REMEMBER THEATRES LIKE THIS WHEN I WAS GROWING UP. I HAD TRIED NUMEROUS TIMES TO SEE L.O.A. ON TV AND WAS BORED OUT OF MY MIND.WHAT A TREAT TO SEE AND FEEL THE MOVIE(NOT A TYPO,THE SOUND SYSTEM WAS SO AWESOME, THE SEATS WERE RUMBLING DURING THE SCENES OF DUST STORMS AND HORSES STAMPEDING.) WE PLAN TO RETURN FOR CASABLANCA AND OTHERS. EILEEN HANSEN
Rhett and Bill:
Thank you for your comments – it’s gratifying to know that people are enjoying our work up there.
See you this Saturday for THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD!
Pete Apruzzese
Director of Film Programming
Big Screen Classics at the Lafayette Theatre
Rhett said it all. This theater is the pride of the New York metro area. They always put on the best possible presentation. Showmanship is not dead yet!
In my opinion, this is THE BEST theater in the north as of today. I’ve been attending the weekly Big Screen Classics on Saturday mornings. The owners are true movie lovers and showmen. They provide the best in entertainment. If you’ve never been there, make a special trip. It’s like eating potatoe chips. You can’t eat just one. You’ll go back again and again. I’ve seen Quiet Man, Producers, Wings (with organ), Ben-Hur (original silent), James Bond, Buck Privates. They’re showing Jaws in June. This theater is the best of old tradition movie theaters. You have to see it.
I grew up in Suffern, and the Lafayette Theatre is like a home to me.
My mother remembers the early days of the Lafayette, and talks of those days often.
I hope to return very soon.
The Lafayette Theatre is located at Route 59 and Washington Ave.
Thank you.
George Vreeland Hill.
The Lafayette Theatre is located at Route 59 and Washington Ave.
It’s the kind of theatre you dream of owning, not too big but large enough to be interesting. I’ve been to it twice in the last five years and hope to go again soon despite the 1200 mile round trip. Good luck to the new owner and if you ever tire of it let me know.
The Lafayette Theatre is having its GRAND-RE OPENING tonight 11-15
The theatre was abruptly closed on Fri Sept 13.
New management has taken over, Galaxy Theatre Corp. They run several cinema’s in NJ and PA.
For the past two weeks the theatre has been undergoing a “clean up” from head to toe.
In addition to first run movies there will be a classic film night once a month.
The theatre is WORTH the trip from anywhere in the tri-state area!
I visited this theatre with the Theatre Historical Society a little over a month ago. It is truly worth seeing. While the modernized (60s?) little lobby isn’t anything, the facade, marquee, and the unrestored but well-preserved auditorium are a delight! The little balconies all along the auditorium sidewalls are rather unusual for a theatre of this era.
Here’s a RARE opportunity to see a first run movie in a SINGLE screen 1920s theatre! If you’re in the area, don’t pass it up!