EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese will receive a filmmaker tribute honor at next month’s Montclair Film Festival and also take part in an onstage interview with major fest backer Stephen Colbert.
The October 27 conversation will touch on the director’s latest project, Killers of the Flower Moon, which will be released theatrically on October 20 by Apple and Paramount, plus Scorsese’s entire six-decade career.
Killers, Scorsese’s 27th narrative feature film as a director, had its world premiere in Cannes last May. As a resident of Montclair, a New Jersey suburb of New York City where a number of media and entertainment pros make their homes, Colbert has been a longtime advocate of the festival.
His wife, Evie Colbert, is its president, and Colbert convenes annual sit-downs with notable figures at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark as well as making other appearances.
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