Montclair Film Festival Opens: "The Latest Extravaganza In This Overachieving Town!"
Actor Oliver Platt asks ... "Tribeca what?"
Film festivals conjure up images of glitz, celebrities, red carpets, and amazing organization. The Venice and Tribeca film festivals come to mind. Although Montclair is not Cannes, the Montclair Film Festival got off to a glamorous and extremely successful start on Tuesday night at Montclair State University's Alexander Kasser Theater. Thom Powers, the film festival's co-director, said he hesitated to make The Oranges the opening film of the festival as it's mostly about, well, adultery. But, in the end, he said he couldn't resist. "It's hard to find such a great film set in suburban New Jersey with such an incredible ensemble cast," he said. And he couldn't have picked a better film to launch a festival that's been two years in the …
David Delmonico
8:22 am on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The opening event was fabulous; a wonderful first step for Montclair. The film, The Oranges, was both very funny, touching, and finely crafted. To have Oliver Platt in attendance to discuss the film and his work was an amazing bonus. The only negative was David Carr, who was the worst interviewer I had ever witnessed in my nearly 50 years on the planet. He is a bizarre blend of uncomfortable in … more ›