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2023 Montclair Film Festival Lineup!
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2023 Montclair Film Festival Lineup! 60 films
A list of all of the incredible films that are a part of the 12th Annual Montclair Film Festival, you…
Clips at The Clairidge! 29 films
A warm and welcoming home to films, audiences, and stories of all shapes, sizes, and colors, The Clairidge non-profit cinema…
For Your Consideration Series at The Clairidge 40 films
As the 2023 awards season ramps up, The Clairidge is proud to bring back FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, our series of…
The Clairidge Classics 13 films
Nothing is more wild then hearing someone tell you they've never seen one of your favorite classic films. Next time…
"What Every Marquee Should Look Like" 10 films
This week, a Montclair, NJ local took to Twitter, pleased with the lineup of films lit up on the marquee…
Montclair Film Festival '22 88 films
The 2022 Montclair Film Festival selection of feature films, starring "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery", "The Whale", and "The…
Recent reviews
Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a gay, hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (Hugues Quester) becomes increasingly jealous of the two. Sharing the title with Gainsbourg and Birkin’s sexually-explicit 1969 hit pop song, JE T’AIME, MOI NON PLUS is an equally provocative depiction of sexual gratification told through the story of an unlikely couple.
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Emma Seligman’s debut feature SHIVA BABY, follows Danielle (Rachel Sennott), a near college graduate, who rushes to meet her neurotic parents at a family shiva. Upon arrival, she is accosted by various estranged relatives about her appearance and lack of post-grad plans, while her confident ex-girlfriend, Maya (Molly Gordon), is applauded by everyone for getting into law school. Danielle’s day takes an unexpected turn when her sugar daddy, Max (Danny Deferrari), arrives at the shiva with his accomplished wife, Kim…
John (Viggo Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Mónica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. John’s father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis is in the early stages of dementia, making running the farm on his own increasingly difficult, so John brings him to stay at his California home so that…
A list of all of the incredible films that are a part of the 12th Annual Montclair Film Festival, you for sure won't want to miss!
Take a chance and Explore some films you usually wouldn't see; Connect with those in our community and with the stories around you, become Inspired by the artists behind them, and stay Excited for all to come between October 20 - October 29, 2023 at #MFF23!
Check montclairfilm.org for a full list of our Films, Events, Panels, and Shorts within this year's immersive program.