Telluride has launched some terrific films this weekend — Edward Berger’s Conclave, Michael Gracey’s Higher Man, Pablo Larrain’s Maria and Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 amongst them — however it could be exhausting to search out extra palpable power evident in a movie show than that generated by Saturday Night time tonight.
The Jason Reitman-directed dramatic have a look at the tense and infrequently hilarious 90 minutes earlier than the 1975 launch of the long-lasting NBC present Saturday Night time Reside simply made its debut on the Colorado mountain fest.
Reitman was there together with producer Peter Rice and Sony exec Sanford Panitch and co-writer Gil Kenan, and he gave a most rousing intro, with an help from Invoice Murray, who joined SNL in its second season and have become a mainstay.
Check out video straight from the theatre of their intro to the viewers right here: