Live from New York!

    Live from New York!
    2015

    Synopsis

    Saturday Night Live has been reflecting and influencing life in the United States for forty years. LIVE FROM NEW YORK! goes deep inside this television phenomenon exploring the laughter that pulses through American politics, tragedy, and pop culture.

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    Cast

    • Tom BroeckerSelf
    • Tina FeySelf
    • Amy PoehlerSelf
    • Alec BaldwinSelf
    • John GoodmanSelf
    • Horatio SanzSelf
    • Rachel DratchSelf
    • Cheri OteriSelf
    • Lorne MichaelsSelf
    • Bobby MoynihanSelf

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    • 75

      Washington Post

      Live From New York! is a fun, not academic walk down memory lane.
    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      Of course, a single documentary can’t cover everything, but this one’s slim but entertaining 80 minutes suggests that Nguyen erred on the side of brevity.
    • 63

      New York Post

      Don’t expect the real dirt on “Saturday Night Live” from the doc Live From New York! The movie is fun, but it’s a cinematic coffee-table book.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Director Bao Nguyen doesn't try to dig too deep, leaving serious behind-the-scenes lore to the SNL obsessives who've been poring over backstage accounts for years. Focusing on talking heads, almost all of whom say nice things about their experience of the show, he offers a puffy remembrance just a couple of notches more substantive than the supplemental doc in a DVD box set.
    • 50

      Screen Daily

      Nguyen’s documentary certainly leaves the viewer wanting more.
    • 50

      Variety

      Live From New York! registers as simultaneously too outsider and too insider — a perfect definition of mainstream media itself.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      Formally, it relies on a bevy of spectacularly funny clips and a plethora of talking heads, most of which fall back on plaudits rather than sage insights.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      Fortunately, Live From New York! isn't all overblown hagiography.

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