About Saturday Night
It’s the mid-1970s, and a flipbook of Watergate, Vietnam, and rising counterculture make everything old in America feel broken and everything new feel scary as hell. And now, yet another certainty is about to crack. Because in 90 minutes’ time, live from New York…it’s Saturday Night!
Saturday Night dives headfirst into the frenzied hour-and-a-half before a clutch of unknown, untrained, unruly young comedians took over network television and transformed the culture. Saturday Night Live would go on to become the late-night institution that brought John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and others to our screens. But tonight, it’s barely contained madness backstage, with Lorne Michaels desperately trying to channel the chaos towards a vision even he’s not sure of.
Director Jason Reitman has never made a film like this. Fuelled by the same anarchic energy that drove the show to air, he orchestrates this tour de force as a glorious circus of talent, ambition and appetite for risk, with the clock ticking down to showtime.
2-for-1 tickets for under 25s
BFI Film Academy Recommends presents this 2-for-1 screening delivered by MAC on behalf of Film Hub Midlands, and supported by National Lottery.
Select the Under 25 ticket type and when you get two tickets, the cost of one ticket will be discounted at checkout.
The screening on Saturday 15 February is part of the 2-for-1 ticket offer.
Booking info
To book Accessible tickets and free Companion tickets, please visit our Accessible Bookings page. Companion tickets will initially show a standard ticket price, but once your account is set-up and you are logged in, this will be reduced to £0 at checkout.
Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.
MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
