The West Orange Classic Film Festival returns in the town where Thomas Edison invented movies. Once again, giving lovers of cinema a chance to experience their favorite films as they were meant to be seen… on the big screen! Each film will be followed by a discussion led by a local film scholar/critic.

Film Schedule:

Sun, January 8, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: The Adventures of Robin Hood

The swashbuckling, classic tale of Robin and his merry men who rob the rich to give to the poo. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland.

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

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Sun, January 15, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Abbott and Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk

A stunning NEW 4K version! The New Jersey premiere of this restored 1952 classic featuring the state's favorite sons, Abbott & Costello

The classic fairy tale gets a comical workover from comedy legends Abbott and Costello! Lou plays Jack, while former heavyweight boxer Buddy Baer plays the giant. Meanwhile, renowned voice artist Mel Blanc lends his sound to various animals in the story.

With Speakers:

Bob Furmanekv, co-author of the book, "Abbott & Costello in Hollywood" and the founder of "The 3-D Archive," which restored the film to its original splendor.

Ron Palumbo, the co-author of "Abbott & Costello in Hollywood," plus two members of the film restoration team, Jack Theakston, who handled visual restoration, and Ray Faiola, who handled sound restoration.

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Sun, January 22, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Yellow Submarine

Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated jukebox musical comedy adventure film inspired by the music of the Beatles.

Pepperland is a cheerful, music-loving paradise under the sea, home to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The titular Yellow Submarine rests on an Aztec-like pyramid on a hill. At the edge of the land is a range of high blue mountains.

The land falls under a surprise attack from the music-hating Blue Meanies, who live beyond the mountains. The attack starts with a music-proof glass globe that imprisons the band. The Blue Meanies fire projectiles and drop apples that render Pepperland's residents immobile as statues and drain the entire countryside of color.

Before his capture, Pepperland's Lord Mayor sends Young Fred for help. Fred takes off in the "Yellow Submarine" and travels to Liverpool, where he follows a depressed Ringo to "The Pier", a house-like building on the top of a hill, and persuades him to return to Pepperland. Ringo collects his mates John, George, and Paul. The four decide to help Old Fred and journey with him back to Pepperland in the submarine.

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Sun, January 29, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) is a 1946 French romantic fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau.

The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father, who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from the Beast's garden. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. Beast falls in love with her and proposes marriage on a nightly basis which she refuses. Belle eventually becomes more drawn to Beast, who tests her by letting her return home to her family and telling her that he will die of grief if she doesn't return to him within a week.

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Sun, February 5, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Sinbad and his crew make landfall on Colossa. They encounter Sokurah the magician fleeing a giant cyclops. So the adventure begins...

Sinbad, the Sailor, and his ship's crew land on the island of Colossa, where they encounter Sokurah, the magician fleeing a giant cyclops. Though he escapes, Sokurah loses a magic lamp to the creature. Sinbad refuses his desperate pleas to return to Colossa because Parisa, Princess of Chandra, is aboard. Their coming marriage is meant to secure peace between her father's realm and Sinbad's homeland, Baghdad.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was selected in 2008 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

It was the first of three Sinbad feature films from Columbia, the later two from the 1970s being The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). All three Sinbad films were conceptualized by Ray Harryhausen using Dynamation, the full color widescreen stop-motion animation technique that he created.

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Sun, February 19, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Gene Wilder stars in a 1971 fantasy about an eccentric candy maker and poor boy who he introduces to the world of imagination...and candy.

A sweet boy from a poor family dreams of finding one of five golden tickets hidden inside chocolate bar wrappers which will admit him to the eccentric and reclusive Willy Wonka's magical factory. One after another, tickets are discovered by ghastly children - but will the lad find the last remaining one and have all his dreams come true?

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Sun, February 26, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy directed/co-produced by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright

Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

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Sun, March 5, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Field of Dreams

Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe.

When Iowa farmer Ray (Kevin Costner) hears a mysterious voice one night in his cornfield saying "If you build it, he will come," he feels the need to act. Despite taunts of lunacy, Ray builds a baseball diamond on his land, supported by his wife, Annie (Amy Madigan). Afterward, the ghosts of great players start emerging from the crops to play ball, led by "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. But, as Ray learns, this field of dreams is about much more than bringing former baseball greats out to play.

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Fest Date: January 8 - March 5, 2023

Location: AMC Dine-in Theatres Essex Green, 495 Prospect Ave, West Orange, NJ

Tickets are $15 Each while supplies last.

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