Screening Zone

544 Bloomfield Avenue,
Montclair, NJ 07042

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moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on November 16, 2017 at 11:15 am

It was near Starbucks.

RHETT52
RHETT52 on March 28, 2016 at 8:12 am

Poor theater atmosphere, very uncomfortable.

markp
markp on September 30, 2015 at 9:12 pm

One correction. It was a twin. I know this because I cleaned the screens here in the 90’s when it was open.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 30, 2015 at 4:59 pm

A few listings in the performing arts section New York Magazine in 1987 give 544 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair as the address of a house called the Whole Theatre. A quick Googling reveals that a theater group called the Whole Theatre Company was founded at Montclair in 1971 by Olympia Dukakis and her husband, Louis Zorich. They ran the company until 1990. I haven’t been able to discover if the company occupied this building during its entire run as a live theater group, but it does seem likely that the house only became a movie theater sometime in the 1990s.