New Jersey Classic Film Fest Includes Lorre

The annual West Orange Classic Film Festival, held in the New Jersey town of West Orange, where Thomas Edison invented the moving picture camera in 1889, includes two Peter Lorre films in January, 2019.

M (1931) will be shown on Sunday, January 13, 2019, at 2 pm.

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) will be shown the following Sunday, on January 20 at 2 pm.

Each movie in the fest will be followed by a FILMCHAT, a discussion led by film scholars and critics, including Stephen Whitty, Star Ledger movie critic; Gerard Amsellem, Club Cinematheque founder; John Chasse, and Boris Gavrilovic.

Gerard Amsellem will host the FILMCHAT for M.

John Chasse, curator of the Cinema Shorthand Society page on Facebook, will host the FILMCHAT for Arsenic and Old Lace.

Admission is $12 for adults and children, and $9 for members of the West Orange Arts Council. Tickets may be purchased at the cinema box office. Tickets may also be purchased online through Fandango or the AMC Theatre's website.

All movies in the festival will be shown at the AMC Dine-In Theatres Essex Green 9, located in the Essex Green Shopping Center at 495 Prospect Avenue, in West Orange, New Jersey.

The West Orange Classic Film Festival began on Sunday, January 6, 2019, and will run every Sunday until February 24, 2019. The full schedule is available on the West Orange Arts Council website.

For more information, please join the festival’s Facebook page or contact the festival’s eMail address, wofilmsociety@aol.com.