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DVD Details
- The Making of Network: A 6-Part 30th Anniversary Documentary
- Vintage Paddy Chayefsky Interview Excerpt from Dinah!, Hosted by Dinah Shore
- Commentary by Director Sidney Lumet Private Screenings with Sidney Lumet: Turner Classic Movies Host Robert Osborne Interviews the Director
- Theatrical Trailer
- Languages: English & French
- Subtitles: English, French & Spanish (Feature Film Only)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 4 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 28, 2006
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Holden, Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway | |
Performer: | Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight, Arthur Burghardt, Jordan Charney, Ed Crowley, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Cindy Grover, Darryl Hickman, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Michael Lombard, Russ Petranto, Roy Poole, William Prince, Lane Smith, Ted Sorel, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilson, Lee Richardson, Michael Lipton, Paul Jenkins & Jerome Dempsey | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Edited by | Alan Heim | |
Screenwriting by | Paddy Chayefsky | |
Composition by | Elliot Lawrence | |
Produced by | Howard Gottfried | |
Director of Photography: | Owen Roizman |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Actor: Peter Finch
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Original Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight
Entertainment Reviews:
Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 satire about network television, directed by Sidney Lumet, was amazing then, and it's amazing now...
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TV Worth Watching
Rating: 4/5 --
This tale of a failing network that feeds on the mental breakdown of one of its anchors, cannibalising itself for ratings, feels as savagely relevant now as it did when it was released nearly 40 years ago.
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Times (UK)
...A vicious, exaggerated satire which aims for barbed black humour over belly laughs....[With a] sharp screenplay...
Total Film
A corrosive and poetic story about the world of American television. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Craven TV execs like Faye Dunaway's may have seemed harmlessly cartoonish then, but now they feel like a dangerous prophecy come true. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It deserves to be credited for [its] accuracy... and overall it's still great fun to watch.
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Eye for Film
Chayefsky was apparently serious about much of this shrill, self-important 1976 satire about television, interlaced with bile about radicals and pushy career women, and so were some critics at the time.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
Still Mad As Hell After 30 Years.
Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports of cute puppies, movie premieres and fender benders as hard news: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." Sidney Lumet directs Paddy Chayefsky's satire (an Academy Award-winning screenplay) about the things people do for love...and ratings. Three performers won Oscars. Best Actress Faye Dunaway is the TV exec guarding ratings like a tigress protecting cubs. Best Actor Peter Finch is Beale, whose airwave rants become a phenomenon. And William Holden, Robert Duvall and Best Supporting Actress Beatrice Straight add to the fierce vitality.
Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports of cute puppies, movie premieres and fender benders as hard news: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." Sidney Lumet directs Paddy Chayefsky's satire (an Academy Award-winning screenplay) about the things people do for love...and ratings. Three performers won Oscars. Best Actress Faye Dunaway is the TV exec guarding ratings like a tigress protecting cubs. Best Actor Peter Finch is Beale, whose airwave rants become a phenomenon. And William Holden, Robert Duvall and Best Supporting Actress Beatrice Straight add to the fierce vitality.
Product Description:
With stunning prescience, Sidney Lumet's searing satire of television and the contemporary moment chronicles media corruption and the way that the public buys into the myths the media creates. The moral and spiritual turpitude delivered by the debilitating forces of television are rendered in sharp relief against a backdrop of crumbling humanity in what is regarded as one of the great satires in Hollywood history. With a visceral script from Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK follows the doomed path of aging newsman Howard Beale (Peter Finch), who, upon learning that he is to be fired after decades as a news anchor, announces to millions of viewers that he will publicly commit suicide during his last broadcast. When the ratings consequently shoot up, hungry executive-in-training Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) seizes the moment to exploit Beale's Messianic nervous breakdown, turning his rage into the vehicle for the network's first Number One show and a nationwide craze. Who could have predicted that this 1976 film might someday influence an even more contagious trend in television broadcasting: the reality show'
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- UPC: 012569692428
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