New Gilda Radner Documentary, LOVE GILDA, Opens Friday at AFS Cinema

LOVE, GILDA opens Friday, September 21st at the AFS Cinema. Tickets are on sale now.

As many comedians will attest, nobody captured the hearts of the 70’s and 80’s (as well as the cultural zeitgeist) quite like Gilda Radner.  She ascended through the boys club of The National Lampoon straight into stardom as the first performer ever cast for Saturday Night Live. Lisa Dapolito’s new documentary mines through years and years of never-before-seen photos, audio recordings, and archival footage to tell the story of Gilda Radner, from her days at SNL to her all-too-soon passing of ovarian cancer in 1991. Countless comedians followed in the footsteps of Radner and many make appearances here in the documentary, including Melissa McCarthy, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, and Steve Martin.

Here’s what the critics are saying:

“’LOVE, GILDA’ is a salute to the complex power of her happiness.” –Owen Gleiberman, Variety

“Understandably weighted toward her years on Saturday Night Live, the polished debut offers a chance to both reconnect with her most famous recurring characters there and to marvel at the amount of fun she clearly had in Studio 8H.” –John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

“…even with Radner gone for nearly three decades, she and her mile-wide smile rule every moment and image.” –Kate Erbland, IndieWire

“…the gone-too-soon SNL star and comedic genius of the 1970s and ’80s is still making us laugh all these years later.” –Brandon Katz, New York Observer

LOVE, GILDA opens Friday, September 21st at the AFS Cinema. Tickets are on sale now.

• Contributed by Henry Graham