Austin Film Society and the Harry Ransom Center Present: Special Screening of Saturday Night (2024) with Jason Reitman and Noah Hawley in Discussion
What: Screening of Saturday Night (2024) in 35mm and post-screening discussion with Jason Reitman and Noah Hawley
When: Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Where: AFS Cinema (6259 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX)
Web: Tickets available here.
January 21, 2025, AUSTIN, TX — The Austin Film Society and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas are excited to announce a special screening of the acclaimed film Saturday Night (2024) on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at the AFS Cinema in Austin. The film will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will feature a post-screening discussion with the film’s director, four-time Oscar® nominee Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno), and award-winning writer, filmmaker, TV producer and AFS Board Member Noah Hawley (creator of the hit FX show Fargo and upcoming Alien: Earth). The film will be projected in 35mm.
This screening celebrates the Harry Ransom Center’s recent acquisition of the Lorne Michaels Collection, an archive spanning Michaels’ career in television from his earliest writing for Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show up through and including the nearly fifty-year history of Saturday Night Live, the most Emmy-nominated show in television history. An exhibition celebrating the Lorne Michaels Collection will debut in Fall 2025 at the Harry Ransom Center. For more information on the Lorne Michaels Collection, click here.
Tickets to this special event will be available to the public on January 21 at 2 p.m. For more information and tickets, click here.
About Austin Film Society
Founded in 1985 by filmmaker Richard Linklater, AFS creates life-changing opportunities for filmmakers, catalyzes Austin and Texas as a creative hub, and brings the community together around great film. AFS is committed to racial equity and inclusion, with an objective to deliver programs that actively dismantle the structural racism, sexism and other bias in the screen industries. AFS supports filmmakers from all backgrounds towards career leaps, encouraging exceptional artistic projects with grants and support services. AFS operates Austin Studios, a 20-acre production facility, to attract and grow the creative media ecosystem. Austin Public, a space for our city’s diverse mediamakers to train and collaborate, provides many points of access to filmmaking and film careers. The AFS Cinema is an ambitiously programmed repertory and first run arthouse with broad community engagement. By hosting premieres, local and international industry events, and the Texas Film Awards, AFS shines the national spotlight on Texas filmmakers while connecting Austin and Texas to the wider film community. AFS is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
About the Harry Ransom Center Film Collection
The Harry Ransom Center’s film collections provide a deep dive into the creative process behind motion pictures. Housing archives from some of Hollywood’s most influential artists, the collection includes scripts, correspondence, legal documents, photographs, designs, and a variety of film formats. Notable holdings include the archives of producer David O. Selznick (Gone With The Wind, Rebecca), screenwriter Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest, The Sound of Music), and actor Robert De Niro, as well as the archives of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. The Harry Ransom Center is proud to announce the acquisition of the Lorne Michaels Collection (SNL, Mean Girls, Wayne’s World), an archive that spans his early career to present.
Will Stefanski, AFS Communications Manager
Will@austinfilm.org
Ashley Park, Harry Ransom Center Head of Marketing and Communications
ashley.park@austin.utexas.edu
