Network
1976, Rated R, 121 min. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight.
The newsroom can be an exciting place in real life, but that adrenaline is kicked up to a thousand in Hollywood, which loves to twist the world of tips and deadlines to its lurid extreme. Network is one of the best films to satirize the bloodthirsty nature of the attention economy in its nascency – aka network news – as it follows the spike in ratings for an NBC surrogate after one of its veteran anchors threatens to kill himself on air post-layoff. Director Sidney Lumet assembles a classic Seventies cast of Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Ned Beatty, and Peter Finch to deliver one of the most enduring rallying cries against capitalist malaise: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” – Lina Fisher
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