Queensland Premiere – join us to celebrate Opening Night of the 2024 Brisbane International Film Festival with this hilarious comedy.
Red Carpet from 5:45pm for a 7:20pm Screening.
Location: Palace Barracks.
Tickets $45 includes light snacks and drinks.
Directed by Jason Reitman, Saturday Night is a hilarious comedy that captures the 90 minutes of barely contained chaos leading up to the first broadcast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
Offering viewers a glimpse behind the curtain the night a motley crew of unruly comedians took over network TV, it offers an intimate, albeit, hilarious look at the creative process (if you can call it that) of the show’s cast, writers, and crew as they prepared for the very first live broadcast.
Taking place amidst the Watergate scandal, the Vietnam War and a rise in counterculture, what unfolded that night was wild, but truly iconic. Saturday Night Live eventually became the legendary late-night show that introduced audiences to John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Kristin Wiig, Jimmy Fallon and so many more notable comedians we know today.
Cast: Rachel Sennott, Dylan O’Brien, Willem Dafoe and J.K Simmons.
We are pleased to present the Short Film, The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste, prior to the feature screening.
