Get loose and spacey at Suffern’s Lafayette Theater as the historical movie house is now showing, Gravity, the George Clooney and Sandra Bullock space debris disaster.
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, who displays a deft and moody visual palette, the film will play through October 24.
The Lafayette also has a nifty new website that gives ample information on movie times and theater location.
The old movie house sits prettily at the end of Lafayette Avenue and is continuing its first-run movie program that brings some of the most popular commercial movies to the single screen theater. Town of Ramapo Supervisor Christopher P. St. Lawrence entered into a acquisition agreements with major movie companies such as Universal, Paramount, Fox, Sony and Disney, to establish the theater as place that supports commercial movies.
The program private/public partnership is attempt to not only support the historical theater and keep business in the Suffern main-street corridor along Lafayette. The effort also helps boost arts and culture in the town itself by drawing traffic from big box theaters and getting people out for a movie and dinner in downtown Suffern.
The popular movie Gravity is now playing at the Lafayette Theater in Suffern, NY.
Another part of Ramapo’s support for the Lafayette begins this Saturday when the 13th Annual Ramapo Fall Film Festival takes place at the Lafayette. The Fall Film Festival runs every Saturday morning through December 14, when It’s A Wonderful Life plays, just as the holiday season kicks into high gear.
The festival kicks off with a screening of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather this Saturday, October 19, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton — the film had its world premiere in New York City on March 14, 1972.
The festival will feature popular movies from the past, showing them on the big screen with a pre-movie Wurlitzer Organ Concert by Jeffrey Barker. For many people. The Wurlitzer was installed in 1992 at the Lafayette as a permanent feature that represents the theater’s golden age. The Wurlitzer festival concerts begin at 11 a.m., with all Ramapo Film Festival starting at 11:30 a.m. Ramapo Seniors are admitted for free (with pass) and all other tickets cost $8.
So, get to the Lafayette Theater in Suffern where “Gravity” is now playing. Adult tickets cost $13. And Friday and Saturday the movie has two evening showings — at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. For information on movie times call (845) 547-2121 or go to www.lafayettetheatersuffern.com.
