Director Martin Scorsese to headline 12th annual Montclair Film Festival

John Connolly, NorthJersey.com
Updated ·2 min read

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese will sit down with Stephen Colbert as part of this year's Montclair Film Festival.

The festival will be presenting Scorsese with the 2023 Filmmaker Tribute and the pair will have an evening of conversation about the director's legendary career at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark on Oct. 27 at 8 p.m.

Scorsese's latest film "Killers of the Flower Moon" made its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and will be released worldwide in theaters on Oct. 20 before streaming on Apple TV+. Scorsese, who directed such acclaimed films as "Taxi Driver," "Goodfellas" and "Raging Bull," won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for the 2007 film, "The Departed." He has been nominated as Best Director nine times.

Martin Scorsese will sit down with Stephen Colbert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Oct. 27, 2023 as part of the Montclair Film Festival.
Martin Scorsese will sit down with Stephen Colbert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Oct. 27, 2023 as part of the Montclair Film Festival.

“Over the course of his career as a filmmaker, preservation advocate, and film historian, Martin Scorsese has made an unparalleled impact on the art of cinema” said Tom Hall, co-head and artistic director of Montclair Film. “To honor him with our festival’s 2023 Filmmaker Tribute is an absolute thrill, and we look forward to a delightful, celebratory evening of stories and conversation.”

Colbert, host of "The Late Show," is a longtime supporter of Montclair Film and a township resident. Over the dozen years of the festival, he has hosted events with Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, John Oliver and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Tickets for the event will go on sale on Sept. 13 exclusively to Montclair Film members. On Sept. 14, American Express members and NJPAC donors will have pre-sale access to tickets before public ticket sales begin on Sept. 16 on www.njpac.org and ticketmaster.com, by phone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), and at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in Newark.

The complete program for the 12th Annual Montclair Film Festival, which will take place on Oct. 20-29, will be announced on Sept. 29. For more information, check montclairfilm.org.

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