Friday, October 17, 2025
THE 2025 MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL
The Montclair Film Festival is getting more interesting every year!
The 2025 Montclair Film Festival runs from Oct 17 to Oct 26.
Opening
night, tonight! will include an Opening Night Party after the Opening Night Feature, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly and a Q&A
with composer Nicholas Britell.
Additional centerpiece films
include
- Ryan White’s intimate documentary, Come See Me in the Good Light; and
- HIKARI’s Tokyo-set Rental Family with Brendan Fraser, who will participate in a Q & A moderated by Stephen Colbert.
Additional highlights of the ten day event
include:
- Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,
- Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet ,
- Rebecca Miller’s two-part portrait Mr. Scorsese and
- Closing night’s Christy with Sydney Sweeney and Ben Foster.
In addition to many genres of full-length films and short films, the festival features conversations with Pamela Abdy; and another with Spike Lee moderated by Stephen Colbert. AND…
Montclair Film’s signature onstage series returns on December 7 with Stephen Colbert in conversation with Conan O’Brien at NJPAC.
The
Film Festival is the annual highlight event of Montclair Film, an organization
that provides multiple, excellent film opportunities for high school students (and others). I've been following them ever since I posted in QPORIT about the 2019 event with Stephen Colbert interviewing Julia-Louis Dreyfus.
SOME LINKS
OPENING
NIGHT EVENT
https://montclairfilm.org/events/jay-kelly/
MONTCLAIR
FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE - BY DATE
MONTCLAIR
FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE GUIDE - BY GENRE, VENUE, DATE
https://montclairfilm.org/ (SELECT “BROWSE AND BUY TICKETS”)
TICKET
INFO
https://montclairfilm.org/festival-information/tickets/
MONTCLAIR
FILM
https://montclairfilm.org/about/mission/
MONTCLAIR FILM
+ EDUCATION
https://montclairfilm.org/education/
STEPHEN
COLBERT & CONAN O’BRIEN
https://www.njpac.org/event/stephen-colbert/
SPIKE
LEE
https://montclairfilm.org/events/in-conversation-spike-lee/
BRENDAN
FRASER
https://montclairfilm.org/events/rental-famly/
PAMELA
ABDY
https://montclairfilm.org/events/in-conversation-pamela-abdy/
NICHOLAS
BRITELL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Britell
Labels: Brendan Fraser, Conan O'Brien, Montclair, Montclair Film, Montclair Film Festival, Scorcese, Spike Lee, Stephen Colbert
