Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Saturday Night’ any night; ‘Psycho,’ ‘Amadeus’ at Crosstown
"Saturday Night" tracks the night producer Lorne Michaels and his troupe of young comedians and writers prepare for the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 11, 1975. (Courtesy Sony Pictures)
The theme at the movies this week: New York in the 1970s, via two intriguing, high-profile new docudramas.
The first of these is “Saturday Night” from director Jason Reitman (“Juno,” “Up in the Air”). It’s set in the hours before the first 1975 broadcast of what would become “Saturday Night Live,” with promising but little-known young actors of today portraying such then Not Ready for Primetime Players as Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and John Belushi.
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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