Full Transcript for Awards Buzz, Spike Lee & Springsteen: Montclair Film Festival 2025

the Bellevue. 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.040 So what do you do with the Bruce Springsteen movie? 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:04.719 Like, are we gonna open that one? 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:06.319 I don't know where we're gonna put that yet. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.760 Like that's right on the line for me. 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:09.759 It's like uh it's a big Bruce Springsteen movie. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.400 We're in New Jersey, we want to do that, but do we I don't know where we're gonna put it. 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:13.680 Do people want to see it at the clear edge? 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.280 That's a very good question. 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:15.599 Yeah. 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.000 So we're like, we're figuring all that out now. 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:22.400 And while we're doing construction and putting on the film festival, we just hired a new executive director. 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.599 Nothing, nothing's happening over at the office right now. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:29.039 No, it's it's while trying to figure all this out at the same time. 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.360 So you're starting the festival off on October the 17th. 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:33.840 Is that correct? 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:34.960 Is that right? 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:40.639 That's opening night, and you have the governor and his wife coming to kick it all off. 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:43.759 Yeah, so they're the um honorary chairs of the festival this year. 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:51.840 So as you guys know, Governor Murphy was crucial in the film tax credit incentives that went into returning film production to New Jersey. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:03:02.560 So, in honor of that, and this is his you know last couple of months in office, we wanted to thank the governor for supporting film and film creatives and the first lady as well for her advocacy for nonprofit art. 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:11.599 She was crucial during COVID uh at a really tough time for nonprofits rallying the state and and getting us organized as a as an industry. 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:14.479 So they're coming to be our honorary chairs on opening night. 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:15.520 I'm thrilled about that. 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:20.159 Um, they've been incredible allies and supporters of the work that we've done at Mockware Film. 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:32.879 And we're opening the festival with Jay Kelly, which is a film by Noah Baumbach, terrific movie that it could be more meta in terms of the theme of the film, which is George Clooney going to a film festival to be honored, right? 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:36.639 So I was like, this is a perfect opening night film festival movie. 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:38.800 It's a movie about film festivals, kinda. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.879 So uh we're thrilled to have it. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:44.800 The composer of the film, Nicholas Bertel, who did this theme of first succession. 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.639 I think everyone will know him from that.

00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:47.759 Yeah. 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.879 Uh as well as some of his other terrific scores. 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:56.240 Um, he did Moonlight uh for Barry Jenkins and uh Bill Street could talk for Barry as well. 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:57.520 Terrific composer. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.599 So he's coming to be honored for his score for Jay Kelly. 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:02.879 I love this movie. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:05.120 I'm really excited to see it with a big audience. 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.560 It's a terrific comedy, but also sort of melancholy comedy. 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:15.039 Uh incredibly, like I said, it's gonna be incredibly meta to watch a film about people watching films at a film festival. 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.680 So Adam Sandler's in this film is right, right? 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:18.480 It's terrific. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.519 Yeah, I've heard that he's yeah, he plays George Clooney's basically a George Clooney character. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:33.600 So it's like a famous actor who sort of everyone, you know, takes care of him and everything he does in his life, and he's committed to working, but he he has a family and doesn't pay enough attention to them. 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:40.160 And his team sort of, you know, he just floats from place to place and is a celebrity and gets to do all the celebrity stuff. 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:55.920 And Adam Sandler's basically the person who, as his manager, makes all that happen for him and is sort of also trying to juggle a family and has a completely different experience uh doing that because he's not a celebrity and he's not famous, and he has to attend to the needs of a very needy celebrity person played by George Pitty. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:06.319 Some part is really terrific, and it ends up being quite moving their relationship, thinking about sort of family and how we relate to one another in our families and what's important in life. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:14.240 I don't know if you guys are Noah Bomback fans, but this is not as dark or as sort of um, I don't know, cynical as some of Noah's movies that I love. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:14.560 Yeah. 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.959 I'm curious, do you think since I went to Enora's opening at the Welmont last year? 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:26.160 Well, I I feel differently in the audience this year than I did. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.439 Oh, how did you feel in Honora? 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:30.560 I don't know how you felt. 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.680 Well, I just love your introduction to the film. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:37.199 I lost it when you walked out and you're like, okay, everyone. 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:40.319 I hope everyone's comfortable watching a lot of sex together on screen. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:40.639 Bye. 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:41.600 Yeah, enjoy. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:43.920 Enjoy. 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:45.600 I was like, well, what does that mean? 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:47.120 That's what it was. 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:49.600 It's a lot less sex in this movie. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.360 So you can be comfortable knowing. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.439 Also, Enora was another opening night. 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.040 That was just at the Welmont. 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.720 I I'm sorry, I uh I have uh blacked out after that. 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:03.040 So it was a long, but it was Yeah, but it was it was a winner. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.319 Tell us what is the next featured film that you'd like to spotlight. 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:06.560 Yeah. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:06.959 Yeah. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.560 So uh on Saturday we have Spike Lee coming, which I'm really excited about. 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.399 I am a Gen Xer to the core. 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.920 Do the right thing is the movie of my generation, in my opinion. 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.879 It's the one of the masterpieces of Gen X. 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:25.680 He is an incredible filmmaker who basically has defined cinema for me and for a lot of people, I think, uh, over the years. 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:27.199 Uh he's a very cinematic. 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:35.759 I don't know if you guys got to see highest or lowest this year, but he's like it's on Apple TV Plus right now, I think, but it's so visually interesting and engaging. 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:39.680 And all of his films take huge risks and huge chances. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:41.040 He's a real artist. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.519 I could not be more thrilled that he's coming to Mock Clarity. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.279 He's talking to Stephen Colbert at the festival. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:45.920 That's going to be great. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:47.439 Like their dynamics are gonna be great. 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:48.720 Spike is super funny. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:53.439 That's gonna be on Saturday, uh the 18th, I think at 3:30 at the Wellmont. 00:06:53.600 --> 00:07:00.959 And then we're doing a conversation with Pam Abde, who is a Jersey uh native and is the CEO of Warner Brothers. 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:05.920 And when I mentioned all those movies that saved movie theaters this year, uh she produced all of those. 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:07.040 So I know. 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:09.199 I was reading about her ordinary. 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:10.720 I was like, what? 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:12.560 Who is this person? 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.240 Why do I not know who this person is? 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.480 I get to get to interview her, right? 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.480 Yeah, I'm really excited about that. 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:26.240 Her first job was with Danny DeVito, she was an office assistant and then ended up like over the production company and then produced Garden State. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.240 So, like, she's got real Jersey. 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:29.199 Yeah, yeah. 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:30.879 She's all real Jersey cred.

00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:32.240 Yes, for sure. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:39.920 She also produced One Battle After Another, which opens at the Claridge this week with a new Leonardo DiCaprio Paul Thomas Anderson movie. 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:44.959 Um that's gonna be in the conversation, I think, for a lot of awards this year as well. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.680 I highly recommend everyone see that film. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:49.600 So I'm really excited to talk to her. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.879 I can't believe she's coming and there's like you. 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.519 Speak speaking of that, how did that come about? 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:56.480 Like, how did you decide? 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:57.040 Pam? 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:57.920 Yeah, yeah. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:08.720 Yeah, so I she um works with our publicity firm, Frank PR, who does our publicity, also helps out with Pam Abdi and with some of the Warner Brothers things in their terrific. 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:20.319 And I went to Frank PR and I was like looking at the box office at the Clarage, and I'm like, Warner Brothers is having a year, like, and everywhere I was reading online was like, will they keep their jobs? 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.279 Pam and Mike at Warner Brothers, are they in trouble? 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.759 Because they had, you know, a film that didn't do so well. 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.000 And I'm like, they are crushing it right now. 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:34.960 So I went to them, I went to her very early and I said, I think Warner Brothers deserves a lot more, or Pam and Mike in particular deserve a lot more credit. 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:36.639 Is there any chance I know Pam's from New Jersey? 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.519 Is there any chance she'd want to come to Montclair and let us honor her? 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.440 Because, you know, she's basically flipped the Claringe by herself. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:44.960 Like that's the F1. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:46.399 Like, what didn't they do this year? 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:48.480 It's an insane, an insane year. 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:54.159 So they put it, we got on a call and I was like, this is coming from a really authentic place as like a person who loves movies. 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.919 I know everything you've produced, and I would love to talk to you and welcome you to the festival. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:58.879 And she's like, Great, let's do it. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:08:59.440 I was like, Great. 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:00.720 That's wonderful. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:02.639 Yeah, it'll be terrific. 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.480 I'm very excited to talk to her. 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:06.960 Let's talk about the panelists and then we'll talk about films. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:07.759 Oh, yeah, sure. 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.559 For um, yeah, so we have some panelists uh during the festival. 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:12.320 We're partnering with the Anchor once again. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:17.440 So Richard Rushfeld and Sean McNulty of The Anchler, which is a sort of up-and-coming trade publication. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:28.240 So a lot of like the trade, I don't know if you guys read Variety or the Hollywood Reporter or Deadline or IndieWire, but it's all like breaking news, putting out a press release, and they'll run the press release and they'll tell you the news that's happening or whatever. 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:34.720 But the Anchor is like more like thoughtful, opinion-driven, analysis-driven, data-driven stuff. 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:45.279 Um, they have a great Sean McNulty who lives in New Jersey also is coming to do a panel with us, does a daily email called The Wake Up, which is box office numbers, TV ratings, gives you the comings and goings. 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:46.399 It's like really terrific. 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:47.679 And we love working with them. 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.120 So they're they're hosting a couple of panels on the opening weekend with us. 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:59.759 Uh the first one is Sean and then Richard Rushfeld, who's a legendary Hollywood journalist who started The Anchler, is coming from California to be here for the opening weekend. 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:09.840 And then uh on Sunday, the Prestige Junkie, which is their awards season newsletter and podcast, are recording a live session at our festival as well. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.960 So we're excited to be working with The Anchler again. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:14.080 I love them. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:19.279 We have on the first Saturday a couple of things I wanted to highlight were um Mr. 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.919 Scorsese one and two, which we're screening. 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:22.399 Yes. 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:31.360 That film is directed by Rebecca Miller, who, as many of your listeners will know, is the daughter of Arthur Miller and married to Danielle Day Lewis and an incredible filmmaker. 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:37.440 She's made this sort of five-part portrait of Martin Scorsese, who we had at the festival as our tribute a few years back. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:39.200 This movie is outstanding. 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:40.240 It's so good. 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.320 If you're a Scorsese fan, it's unmissable. 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:42.720 Okay. 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:43.759 Um, I'll just pick up the video. 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:45.360 I was wondering about that one. 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:46.159 I was wondering. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.559 So you're a high recommendation on this film. 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:48.879 Okay. 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:52.559 It's a five-part thing. 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.679 So I think part two ends right before Raging Bull. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:56.879 So you're gonna have to watch the rest of it. 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.879 I was like, we can they will do the whole five hours, so it leads right up to that. 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.360 You get taxi driver and New

York, New York, and all the early stuff, but it's anyway, it's great. 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:11.279 His life, it's all beh all family and behind the scenes and all the stuff you'd want to know about him as a person. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:12.000 Really good. 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:14.320 And then I have to highlight Begonia. 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:16.240 I wanted to ask about that. 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:16.639 Yeah. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.279 Will Tracy is the screenwriter. 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:20.399 We're honoring him. 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.399 Uh, it's an adapted screenplay. 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.600 He is a great writer to the movie The Menu a few years ago. 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.360 Oh, I remember that. 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:28.000 Yeah. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:32.159 So if you saw the menu and you're like, how can this be darker and weirder? 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:33.440 Welcome to Begonia. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:38.159 This is for me personally, like one of my favorite films in the festival. 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:39.600 It is not gonna be for everybody. 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.159 I just want to flag there's violence in it for sure. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:42.639 Yeah. 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:47.519 Um all of his movies uh filmmate are not for everyone. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:47.840 Yeah. 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:48.480 Right. 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:53.120 Jesse Plemens is, I think he'll get nominated for best actor. 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:54.159 It's time. 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:54.720 It's time. 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:55.279 It's yeah. 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:57.200 So he's incredible in this movie. 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:58.080 So time. 00:11:58.159 --> 00:11:58.240 Yeah. 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:11.919 He plays a conspiracy theorist who thinks Emma Stone's character is like a female Elon Musk uh billionaire science-y type, is an alien, and so he kidnaps her and it gets crazier from there. 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:12.639 I love it. 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:12.799 Yeah. 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.919 The trailer makes me wonder whether she is an alien. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:18.159 Yeah. 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.879 I am not gonna say anything about anything about this movie other than it has to be seen to be believed. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:24.559 I can't wait for the QA. 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.399 The first question is like, what the fuck? 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:32.960 It's on my short list. 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:33.759 I can tell you that. 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:35.759 Sunday's the most elite day. 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.759 I don't know how people are gonna make any choices. 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:45.600 But we've got the Palm Door winning, It Was Just an Accident, directed by Jafar Panahi, who of whose work I've programmed several films. 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:47.919 I'm a huge fan, huge admirer of his work. 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.120 This is another great film in the Panahi Canon. 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:52.159 Must see. 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:53.200 Must see. 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:54.559 I can't wait to see it. 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:59.120 I'm I have to that is his like number one on my list. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:12:59.679 Great. 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:01.759 You have elite, you have elite taste. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:02.639 That's it's great. 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:03.120 It's great. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:04.799 Well, I'm just a big fan of his. 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:15.919 I mean, I know that I just want to mention that you also have an Iranian film festival going on at the Montclair film right now, and you're gonna have one of his great films also showing. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:21.279 I think it's in December, uh No Bears, which is also a terrific film of his. 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.240 Also is Taxi, which is also a terrific film of his. 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.720 So anyway, so just want to say that I think everybody should go see this film for sure. 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:34.240 Yeah, he's been a prisoner of the regime multiple times as a filmmaker. 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:43.919 We had the same conversation, I think, last year with Cita the Sacred Fig and and Mohammed Rusulaf, who had to flee Iran, but uh Panahi stayed and fought. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.320 And I know he's out and about now. 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.200 He's in the States, I think, going to be at the New York Film Festival. 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:56.080 But uh, I'm happy to see that he's a free man uh and continuing to challenge censorship by the state, which is terrific. 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.399 So that's a really like I said, a really good movie. 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:00.320 And it's about, do you want to say what it's about? 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:10.480 It's about a guy who has a car accident, hits a dog, tries to go get his car fixed, and the mechanic thinks that this might be a guy that might have tortured him in the past. 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.519 And they all and it's a question of his identity. 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:15.039 It's kind of like the Yorgos thing. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:16.559 Is it or is it not this person? 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:22.799 You know, you know, so interesting to be absolutely that I never even thought about that parallel that parallel, but that's right. 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:31.600 You know, it's the not knowing that it's a very much a thriller that comes from a very simple, small thing that sort of spirals into something much bigger and more meaningful. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:32.000 Yeah. 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:33.200 Um very powerful. 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.879 Um a couple a couple of other things on this day I just have to point out. 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:44.720 Um, Nouvelle Vogue, which is playing at the Welmont, which is Richard Linklater's new film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.840 It's a fictionalized version of that process. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.919 And it's if

you are a French New Age, it's great. 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:56.879 If you're a French New Wave fan or film history fan, this movie is for you. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:01.519 It's black and white, it's beautifully shot, uh, it's the performances are great. 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:07.360 And you can tell how much he loves the filmmaking process from watching this movie, Link Later himself. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:16.480 Just the idea that he would get to recreate how they're making breath, like filming someone filming your favorite movie as like a fiction idea is so terrific. 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:18.399 And he does it in the style of, you know what I mean? 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.519 So it's like an homage, but also his own thing. 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:23.120 It's just really lovely. 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:24.639 With a great cast, too. 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:24.879 Yeah. 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:30.240 And it's got a great cast, but also just like the idea that Jean Luc Godard, like, is his first film, he doesn't know what he's doing, kinda. 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:34.879 He was like a theoretical critic, smart guy who had to like figure out how to make a movie. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.879 And so you watch him sort of doing things that everybody around him is like, what is this guy doing? 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.720 Like he doesn't know what he's doing, and then he ends up making breathless, and you're like, oh, okay. 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:44.960 Uh he knew what he was doing all along. 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:46.799 So it's really quite I I loved it. 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:48.080 Wake up Dead Man. 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:57.679 I'm very excited for people to see, which is the knives out follow-up with Daniel Craig, who's our past guest, and that we did the the last uh Glass Onion was our opening night film a few years back. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.919 And I love Ryan Johnson in these, you know. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:00.639 I don't know if you guys are. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:01.519 Those are fun. 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:02.080 Those are fun. 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:16.080 I do like totally 70s children who would like watch, like, you know, the Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express, all-star cast movies or Sheila, like with a boat with all the 70s actors. 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:22.080 I just love those big all-star movie cast 70s homages, and I love a good mystery. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:28.240 But the movies of the day are probably Train Dreams, which is gonna be, I think, a contender this year was at Sundance. 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.480 We saw it, and it's beautiful, which is playing at MKA at two o'clock. 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:33.360 And then Hamnet. 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:34.480 I cannot wait to see. 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:39.840 Yeah, it's probably gonna be a best picture nominee. 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:41.440 And you've read the book. 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:42.960 You guys have both read the book? 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:43.840

Yes. 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:44.720 Okay. 00:16:44.960 --> 00:17:01.519 So I don't know about the audience, but basically it's the story of uh Shakespeare and his wife, who had a son named Hamnet, uh one of multiple children who died when he was very young, and about which potentially Hamlet was written. 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:10.319 And I don't know, I didn't read the book, so I only saw the movie, but I can and it's Chloe Zhao who did Nomad Land, um, which opened the festival during the pandemic. 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:14.240 Actually, we showed it at a drive-in that we built out in a parking lot somewhere. 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:19.119 I'm a big fan of her work, The Rider, Nomad Land are both films that I really like. 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:23.440 This is just next level moving, powerful, profound. 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:37.359 I've seen five film versions of Hamlet, three or four stage versions of Hamlet, and I've never considered the play in the way that this movie presents the play uh in the end of the film. 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:46.240 So it also it highlights the wife, his wife, more than any it kind of makes her the the the story that was never told. 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:59.359 So I think Jessie Buckley, who came for our opening night in 2019 for Wild Rose and won our breakthrough performer award at the festival, plays her in the film and gives a heartbreakingly incredible performance. 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.279 But I'm crying thinking about it. 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:02.400 She's so talented. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.079 People are gonna bring your tissues. 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:10.240 I heard I had read some early reviews a while back, and uh it it was a cry, uh it's a crier. 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.039 I mean, just thinking about it makes me tear up. 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:25.839 It's really just the way that she pulls but it's like as a filmmaker to just bring the house down like that, like everybody, like you cannot not if you if you're really good at like choking back tears, you'll make it. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:26.640 You know what I mean? 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:28.880 Yeah, if you can really hold it in, you'll be able to hold it in. 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.319 But you know, in your throat, like you're about to cry. 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:34.559 I'll go, you know what I'm gonna do? 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:35.519 I'm gonna bring Bill. 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:39.839 It'll be the Billow meter because he has been back and we'll see. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.559 I would love to follow up and see if he was able to do it. 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:44.480 As a parent and a person. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:45.839 Well, you mentioned Inora. 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:51.200 Um Sean Baker produced and edited a film that we're showing the same day at the same time called Left Handed Girl. 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:57.839 It's our Breakthrough Director Award for uh Shi Ching Su, who's the director and has worked with Sean a long time. 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:10.559 It's set in um Taipei in Taiwan, uh about uh intergenerational mother-daughter drama comedy with that same sort of energy, street energy of like a Nora, but set in contemporary Taiwan. 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.759 And it's uh a really great debut feature. 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:19.039 I mean, I'm almost sad that we're showing it on this day because there's so much to see and so much to do. 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:23.680 I wish we had like 50,000 people beating down the door to go to every movie, but like I don't know. 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.240 This is a really I'm so sorry. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:28.480 This is when everyone was available. 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:43.440 But if you get shut out or you have to make a choice, we're hoping that we can bring a lot of these films back to the cinemas, and like having the opportunity to do that makes me feel much better about the fact that you may not be able to see it during the festival because of your making another choice. 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:45.039 So yeah, those are all great. 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:46.640 What a great day. 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:51.359 We were like as programmers, you know, we sit down, we put the schedule together, we just looked at each other like, oh man. 00:19:51.680 --> 00:20:00.000 On Monday night, Lucy Liu's coming to the festival with the film Rosemead, um, which is playing at the Bellevue at seven o'clock on Monday the 20th. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:13.680 It's a story of a mother who's a recent immigrant from China whose um son going through a mental health crisis and sort of how she as an immigrant reacts to that problem here in the United States. 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.200 It's a really interesting I think there's going to be a really great talk with her about this movie. 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:19.759 She's it's very different for her as a performance. 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:28.319 I think there's a lot to talk about with it, especially at you know this time and place that we're dealing with immigration and families dealing with a lot of mental health, especially for young men. 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.839 Uh, excited to talk to her on Monday. 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.559 Um, the next one would I guess to highlight you know, there's great things playing all week. 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:40.160 Um, so please come check stuff out on the weeknights. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.640 Um I could go, I could talk about every one of these films. 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:47.279 We have the Head of Gobbler adaptation by Nia De Costa, starring Tessa Thompson. 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:49.200 So if you're an Ibsen person, they move this forward. 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:50.480 I want to see that. 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:51.119 Yeah. 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:54.960 So they move it forward to the 1920s, so it plays a little Gatsby-ish. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.079 It's really quite interesting uh adaptation. 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:07.200 There's a the

Sondheims uh Broadway production of Merrilly We Roll Along with Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff that's playing that night on on Tuesday. 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.640 Surratt, which is a top three Tom movie at the festival. 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:14.480 If you think Bagoni's crazy, um wait till you see Surat. 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:19.039 Uh uh the sound mix alone is worth the price of admission. 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:37.920 Um we've got the three-hour uh uh bio film about Magellan starring um Gael Garcia Bernal uh on Thursday, which is a very interesting movie by a Filipino director named Lav Diaz, who I'm a huge fan of. 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.720 And this is a short film for Lav Diaz. 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.480 It's a recording film at clocking in at three hours. 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:47.839 They're usually over six, so this is like a short. 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:48.559 Okay. 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:51.759 Um and it's very much a straight you know, forward. 00:21:51.920 --> 00:22:00.319 I would say if you're gonna come see Magellan, check out the Wikipedia page about Magellan before you come because there's a lot of things that happen. 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.119 Like I had I got to watch it at home, so I had like the Wikipedia open. 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.039 I'm like scrolling along, where's what's happening now? 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:06.240 Like trying to keep up with the movie. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:07.359 Yeah, yeah, I love that now. 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:08.480 That's the way I remember. 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:22.240 The Jessica Chastain film Dreams could not be more timely about immigration and sort of the uh ability of uh certain classic people to not worry too much about it, and others who have to absolutely worry about it right now. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:27.039 It is a dark, dark movie, and I think it's gonna have a lot of conversation around it. 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:28.880 I'd love to see what people think of that one. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:30.720 I I loved it personally. 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:32.480 Um, she's a great performer. 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:35.920 We did happen to have like all of the award winners from Cannes this year. 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:57.440 So Sound of Falling, which is a German film, which is incredible about a house that handed down generation to generation, and it jumps through time to all the young women who lived in the house and how their histories as women overlapped with one another um throughout this house in different times from contemporary time to like the early 20th century. 00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:58.960 It's really smart, well done. 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:02.160 It's like a what a breakthrough for for the director. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:08.799 And then that's the same night we're showing the Springsteen film Deliver Me From Nowhere with Warren Zane's coming. 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:15.519 He's gonna do the QA with me for that film at the Bellevue on Thursday, the 23rd, the day before it opens in theaters. 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:16.240 But we got it in. 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:17.519 I'm really excited about that. 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:19.839 Friday night, come see me in the good lights. 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:22.640 We're showing that film as our documentary centerpiece. 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.559 It's at MKA, it's the only film at MKA on Friday, the 24th. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:28.720 Tignataro, the comedian, is coming. 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.039 She's uh producer in the film and in the film. 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:35.599 Uh Ryan, Ryan White, who's the director, is also coming for the QA. 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:40.319 So very moving documentary about Andrea Gibson and her wife, who are both poets. 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:43.839 Andrea Gibson was like a spoken-word poet in the early 90s. 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:57.759 I don't know if you guys are like Lilith Fair era feminists, uh, but she was definitely a part of that sort of nine early 90s grungy poetry uh women in rock scene. 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:12.640 And she has terminal cancer in the film, and it's about her journey through that process at the end of her life as a poet, as a woman, and they stage a final performance for her, and it's um it's really again, bring your tissues, it's really great. 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:14.240 Uh she's incredible. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:18.319 I really want to talk to them about it because it's one of the most intimate documentaries I've ever seen. 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:34.480 Like again, I don't know how you deal with these life issues of end of life and care and love and marriage and threats against gay marriage and all of this with uh with a camera there, uh, and you're processing all this together as a couple. 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:43.920 And uh I I'm very interested to find out from from Ryan about that process and sort of how Tig got involved and knew them and uh etc. 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:46.960 So that one's a definitely a must see. 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:55.839 Uh gotta say a word about Saturday's Sentimental Value, which is the most Tom film in the Montclair film. 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:57.039 It's the most Tom film. 00:24:57.279 --> 00:24:59.759 It's my favorite movie in the festival. 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:00.400 Okay. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.680 Um it's from Norway. 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:07.839 It's from Joachim Trier, who did Worst Person in the World, which you may have seen with Renata Rensve. 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:13.839 It's um very much in that sort of novelistic family drama vein. 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:14.880 I loved it. 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:17.200 She's incredible, he's incredible. 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:21.920 I would like them to make one movie a year just for me, and I'll go see it by myself. 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:22.480 And I love that. 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:24.000 Well, I have to see this now. 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:24.559 I have to see that. 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:27.519 You've got

two more people going to see it now. 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.200 If you love it, at least. 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:33.200 I mean, if you don't like it, let me know, and then we have to assess our friendship. 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:39.680 Um then a couple other things on that day that are, I think, gonna be notable. 00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:41.680 First, we're showing Ask Eegene. 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:47.200 Eegene Carroll is coming to the festival at MKA with Ivy Mirapol, who's the director. 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:52.319 I don't know if you know Ivy, but her grandparents are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 00:25:52.559 --> 00:26:18.880 She has made a film about Eegene Carroll, both uh about sort of the contemporary lawsuits against the president, but also her history as a advice columnist for women, um, and some of the bad advice I think she gave early on in her career and sort of the reclamation of her past and a reframing that she's had to go through as a woman uh as part of her public life. 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:23.359 Um I'm thrilled that she's coming to be there with us. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:26.160 And uh I think it's gonna be a really great screening. 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:28.240 She's an incredible just a character. 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:33.519 Like I didn't know half of the facts and details about her life or her experience. 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:35.839 And then I watched the film and now I like cannot wait to go. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:42.960 Yeah, most people just know the the news clips or you know the stories there, so you people can take a deeper dive into the backstory of that. 00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:47.200 I think that that I think that will get a lot of people interest for sure. 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:49.599 And I'm a great filmmaker as well. 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:51.039 Uh just want to mention Sheila. 00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:55.440 She's got a lot, I think, to do with this movie is gonna definitely make waves. 00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:58.079 I'm just, you know, I hope someone picks it up and puts it out. 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.319 I'm proud to be have been asked to show it. 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.839 Really glad that we had space for it and that they're able to come and support it at the festival. 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:04.720 So please be there. 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:05.440 Yeah, that's it. 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:08.079 Um two other ones that are playing at the same time that night. 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:12.079 The first is Cover Up, which is our David Carr Award recipient. 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:19.359 We do a award for David's memory every year about a film that sort of deals with journalism or journalistic themes or processes. 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:41.359 This is about Seymour Hirsch, the investigative reporter, who uncovered the May Lai Massacre, but also covered Watergate and has done, I don't know, a thousand incredible stories for the New Yorker, the New York Times over the years, like just an incredible uh investigative journalist who it turns out doesn't like to be uh personally investigated all that very much by the documentary filmmakers who he's agreed to work with. 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:48.240 So it's really quite interesting to watch him sort of deal with Laura Poitris, who is an incredible documentary filmmaker. 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:55.519 Her last film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which was about Nan Golden and her sort of war against the Sackler family for the opioid crisis. 00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:56.960 Nan Golden, the photographer. 00:27:57.279 --> 00:27:57.920 I saw them. 00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:01.519 So that was her like yes, that was Laura's last movie. 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:02.799 Um, this is her new one. 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:06.640 She's working with a director named Mark Oberhaus on this one, but they're both coming. 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:15.680 We're gonna have a Q ⁇ A with them talking about cover-up, but it's uh it's really if you're I know there are a lot of journalists or people who are into journalism who live in Montclair. 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:16.960 We'd love to see you at that one. 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:22.240 And then Rental Family, which is our fiction center pieces that night, the return of Brendan Fraser. 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:24.799 I'm working to get him to the festival. 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:37.119 I it's really a beautiful movie about is he plays an American actor in Japan who uh goes to work for a company where he in they sort of insert him into people's lives to play a role in their lives. 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:48.880 Like so a single mother whose daughter doesn't know who her father is but is a mixed-race child, he goes and uh shows up and acts as the dad, the mom sort of agrees like this is your father. 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:55.119 And so they' such an interesting premise of like okay, forget going to see a therapist, sweetie. 00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:57.599 We're gonna fix this the a a new way. 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:03.920 It's really and it is, it's basically, I mean, he also has to grapple with the fact that he's sort of forming bonds and connections with people. 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.039 And what does it mean about his own life and what does performance mean? 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:14.079 He's an actor, he wants to be acting, but like what does that mean in the context of like having this real relationship with people? 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:23.839 And there's another character in the film who's like a sort of elderly man who's losing his memory, and um, the family hires him to pretend he he's researching a documentary about him as an artist. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:42.000 Um, and so he goes and talks to that uh gentleman and they have this sort of experience together, and it ends up being transformative for everybody and um in a in a good, like really feel-good, interesting way that makes you examine the roles you play in other people's lives and how you interact with other people and

very thoughtful and lovely. 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.640 Uh I think we need a little bit of that for sure right now. 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:46.720 So I I really like that. 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:50.400 And then I guess the last thing I don't know. 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:51.680 Why do we need thoughtfulness? 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:53.599 I don't think about it. 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:58.160 The last day of the festival, uh, just a couple things to highlight there. 00:29:58.319 --> 00:29:59.839 We're doing a conversation with Bobby Brown. 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:01.039 About her new book. 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:10.720 I know she just had a book a book launch in Montclair, but uh this is I think open you know to the public and more a little bit more accessible and working to make that a a a great day for her. 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:12.880 We did Ina Garden last year. 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:22.880 Um and I just, you know, we we love what Bobby does in Montclair and want to support that book and and help her out and uh get some attention on it. 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:24.160 So I hope people will come. 00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:31.440 I went to her book uh launch uh event and it was really very interesting to listen to her talk about her story. 00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:42.079 I just last wanted to mention the the closing film, which is Christy, the Sydney Sweeney movie, co-starring Ben Foster, who plays one of the all-time bad guys in this film. 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:42.880 This is a true story. 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:45.359 She's a little too good at that role. 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:52.480 This is the story of Christy Martin, who, when I was uh in the 80s and 90s, was I think the only female boxer. 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:54.079 I mean, like the only one I knew of. 00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:58.720 Like, she really invented women's boxing as a celebrity-driven. 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:03.359 I mean, she was on Mike Tyson cards, and she's a real deal boxer or whatever. 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:08.160 So Sydney Sweeney plays that part in the film, this is her story. 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:13.920 I did not know her whole story, and I don't want to spoil this movie for people who come and see it. 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.039 So I'm gonna say as little as possible as I can about it. 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:36.960 But I will say, if you know the film Star 80 with Muriel Hemingway and Eric Roberts from the early 1980s, which was about a husband who grew jealous of his wife becoming a Playboy Playmate and became famous, and he was not ended up murdering her, uh, Dorothy Stratton, who was like the playmate of the year or whatever, Playboy model. 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.920 Um, this film has a lot of that same sort of vibe to it uh as it goes. 00:31:42.079 --> 00:32:05.759 It's it's a it's a sports film on the surface, but it's definitely a film about domestic abuse, women, and sort of the mixed message that Christy Martin sent as a woman because she was trying to hide

some dark facts about her own life from the public as she was dealing with her own shame about multiple things that I again don't want to spoil in the film, but it takes a very dark turn. 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:11.920 This is not like uh my daughter uh is 15 and loves Sydney Sweeney and I want to bring her to the movie movie. 00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:13.359 This isn't that movie. 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:19.119 Um, this is really uh a powerful drama and not what I was expecting at all. 00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:24.400 I thought it was gonna be like Rocky or something, like uh, and you know, Sydney Sweeney's like, I put on weight, I'm looking tough. 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:25.920 I got buff for the role. 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.240 It's a boxing movie, and it's so much more than that. 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:39.279 Like I said, Ben Foster, kudos, like the uh absolute worst person um as a uh character in the film festival. 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:40.880 This is like bad guy number one. 00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:44.079 He wins, he wins the award for the worst person. 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:46.400 Is it Merritt Weaver in that? 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:48.720 Yeah, she plays her mo she plays her mother. 00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:49.680 I like her. 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:54.079 Yeah, she's terrific, also not really supportive, also a bad guy. 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:56.880 Um I'll leave it, I'll leave it at that. 00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:08.559 Yeah, no, but it's you're you'll be I I walked out of there incredibly surprised because I knew her career, like she fought, she was a champion, she had a big comeback or whatever. 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:22.880 I'm like, oh, this is gonna be like yay, and it is, but it's not, it's really uh the the politics behind it are you know, given what we know about like what's happening with Sydney Sweeney uh in the zeitgeist or whatever, very interesting and worth seeing. 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:49.680 And I know people might dismiss her because of that, or may think, oh, I don't want to go see a Sydney Sweeney movie because XYZ and the culture, but the film sort of almost addresses that about prejudging women and not giving them space to articulate who they really are, and it almost like it comments on the contemporary idea of womanhood that is being addressed by those concerns in real life with Sydney Sweeney. 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:51.519 So it's really quite an interesting movie. 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:56.000 And again, I I think people should put their judgments aside and see it. 00:33:56.319 --> 00:34:05.759 We want to touch on one film that we are spotlighting in our panel that we're gonna be doing for the first time on our live Lost in Jersey live, which is the business of trouble. 00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:08.400 Is that Shine Global is bringing it? 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:09.199 Oh, yeah, right. 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:16.880 Yeah, it's a short, and we're interviewing them and possibly the director on October 23rd at 7 p.m. 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:23.440 It I mean, you might know that time and date because there's a little Bruce Springsteen film happening at the same time. 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:25.840 I mean, rough choice, I get it. 00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:41.679 For the non-Springsteen fans, the people who are really into uh moving storytelling that focus on the crisis of the children and the filmmakers that are trying to bring this to the forefront. 00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:52.719 And this particular film is about um teens having either psychological or addiction problems that are put into rehabilitation industry, and it's unregulated. 00:34:52.800 --> 00:35:02.719 That industry is an important topic right now, especially with the the crisis that's happening, you know, amongst the youth today that we talk about, and where do you go for help? 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:07.119 We're really looking forward to being a part of Montclair film in another dimension this year. 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:07.920 So thank you for that. 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:10.000 I'm so grateful to you guys for doing that. 00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:14.800 And I just want to add, I expect tickets for the Bruce Springsteen movie to last about four minutes. 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:24.880 So if you are not one of the 130 people who get a ticket to see Bruce Springsteen, this podcast recording is absolutely gonna be on the table for you. 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:29.920 So please go because I there's gonna be a lot of capacity to attend the podcast. 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:38.960 We have the the mezzanine upstairs over the Claridge this year as a new space that we're offering, and it's got a lot more room and seats, and we'd love to see it filled up for the panels. 00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:43.679 And I'm so grateful to you guys for taking the time to be a part of the festival and and joining us this year. 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:44.400 It means a lot. 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:45.519 So thank you for doing that. 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.039 Yeah, it's really it's really fun. 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:47.679 Thank you. 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:55.760 What I'd like to end with is to let people know that many of these films that we've been talking about have not hit the theaters yet. 00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:00.239 A lot of them are films that you're gonna be hearing about talked about for the awards. 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:02.719 This is an opportunity to see some of them early. 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:04.159 And be in community. 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:05.679 Talk about it with your friends. 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:13.760 You see everybody that you rarely see in town because you're all busy, but you get to go out and really be proud of Montclair. 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:18.079 It's such a wonderful opportunity to bring the entire town together. 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:20.719 So uh get out there, get your tickets. 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.719 If you're a member, which you should be, you can buy tickets early. 00:36:24.880 -->

00:36:26.480 So just become a member. 00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:30.639 And then if you didn't, it's okay, but you could then buy a ticket later. 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:34.400 And the good thing about being a member is you know, that membership is year-round. 00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:40.719 So the Claridge tickets, the Claridge Popcorn, Bellevue tickets, Bellevue Popcorn are fundraising events. 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:46.239 You get first crackett tickets for all that, first cracket tickets for the festival, discounted tickets at the festival. 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:49.360 It really pays for itself and it offers us a lot of year-round support. 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:58.480 And like I always say, if everyone in Montclair bought one ticket to see a film at the Montclair Film Festival, it would be two to three times bigger than it's ever been. 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:04.880 So uh if we just got everybody to check out one thing, it would be a huge Montclair Film Festival for everybody. 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:06.159 So please come take a chance. 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:09.119 It's not like it's you're going to Broadway for 150 bucks. 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:13.280 It's like a 15, 17 dollar ticket to take a chance on art. 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:14.639 The director might be there. 00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.320 We're having a ton of QA's. 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:16.480 Yeah. 00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:20.960 You get to have a conversation, see people in your community who might be interested in the same thing. 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:23.280 We have a whole slew of documentaries, fiction. 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.800 We have something for everybody, I think. 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:25.920 There's family movies. 00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:27.360 Um, I hope people feel welcome. 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:28.480 Well, yes. 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:33.599 Everybody's gonna be part of the revival of going to the movies. 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:37.920 I know we're towards the end, we're over time, but you're quite the musician as well. 00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:43.519 So tell people a little bit about your band. 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:44.960 God, I see. 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:46.880 I dabble every five years. 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:47.840 We're like cicadas. 00:37:48.239 --> 00:37:55.519 Every five years, my REM cover band gets together and we sing the early music of REM. 00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:58.639 And I know there's a Montclair REM cover band. 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:04.079 And um, if they are looking for just like a guest vocal uh ever, I sing in this band. 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:05.840 I'd be happy to sit in with you guys. 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:07.360 Contact Tom Hall. 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:09.920 Contact Tom at Montclairfilm.org. 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:11.280 Um, I'd be happy to sing one. 00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:13.679 I mean, I'm not trying to take the lead singer's job or anything. 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:15.519 I just I can Mike Mills it for you. 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:23.039 Anyway, we have a we're we played a show recently, uh, and so in 2030 probably is be the next time we play another. 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:27.360 I'm always surprised when I see your post. 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:33.920 I'm like, that guy is already so busy and he's out, you know, seeing bands, he's in a band, he's doing so. 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.000 I you have uh a lot of energies. 00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:37.840 I'm always really impressed with it. 00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:39.840 So but I'm my secret passion. 00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:41.360 I also read books. 00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:43.760 Like those are my three things music, books, and movies. 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:44.159 I don't know. 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:45.760 So you must not sleep very much. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.280 I don't sleep well. 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:53.039 Well, thank you for taking the time to join us and tell us about the this year's festival. 00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:57.280 We're excited to be part of it and excited to go to the films and looking forward to it. 00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:58.079 I'm so excited. 00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:00.320 I'm so grateful to you guys for the opportunity to talk about this. 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:15.039 And I hope I didn't blather on too much, but you guys are the best, and we really appreciate you shining a light on our work because you know we we really struggle and every day and want to connect with people and the kindness that you've shown us over the years, really appreciate it. 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:15.519 So thank you. 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:16.400 Oh, thank you. 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:17.119 I appreciate that. 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:17.679 Thanks, Tom. 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:18.480 Thanks, Tom. 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:25.519 This podcast was produced by Rachel Martens and Jeanette Afsharian. 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:29.039 You can find us on Spotify, iTunes, and Buzz Sprout. 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:30.400 Thanks for listening. 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:32.320 See you next week.