Montclair Film Festival! 🎥 🍿👗💄

Top photo from 2014 Film Festival, Montclair resident and MFF founding member Stephen Colbert with Steve Carell. Photo credit by Neil Grabowsky/Montclair Film Festival.

So thankful for our neighbor Beth, who posted in our groups (Yahoo and FB) that she overbooked and had two extra tix for last night’s Montclair Film Festival movie. Yes! We quickly Venmoed and Beth put them in the old silvery milkbox on our stoop.

Dan and I love going to movies but by the time he checked, all of the films for this 10th anniversary edition of the MFF were sold out. 

• Yay, to be back at the refurbished Clairidge Cinema on Bloomfield Avenue. It felt a little weary pre-pandemic but I’ve missed it so during Covid. It looks 100 times better with new seats, carpeting, signage, a lounge. And, although I do not choose to partake, I was pleased to see one of the MFF’s sponsors, Little Daisy Bake Shop (“The Official Bakery” of the festival) represented at the refreshment counter. Yes, there they were--thick, fancy marshmallow crispy treats and large chocolate chunk cookies.
• Yay to see a movie not from the living room couch or the bedroom....this was a good, gripping one, with subtitles. Here is the link. It was supernatural and Swedish. The child actors were gifted. The woman who played Anna’s mother was beautiful--in that Scandinavian way, and wearing earth tones and natural fibers. 
• Yay for Skippy going to Party City with her BFF’s Dad....then the girls coming back here, where our Elaine was holding down the fort with three pets, dishes, laundry. (We have Sis’s Buttercup, plus Sugar and Nina.) 
• Yay for Elaine not being booked with another family last night, and for her driving the girls to V’s for sleepover.
• Yay, breathing space, and back at the movies, Dan to my right with his giant popcorn instead of dinner....I got a very good latte to bring in at the new French bakery right by the theater. I wore a dress, as I like to, and lipstick (well, you could not see my GOOP lip balm behind the required masks for length of movie). 
• Yay for rain outside and light and warmth and peace inside and knowing Figgy was happy with her friends in Florida, going to a Halloween party. (She said it was Covid-safe.) She seems to be thriving down there among three great housemates, good graduate classmates, Florida bugs, slugs and plants. 

Just yay all around.