Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Sidney Lumet
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Actor: Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, William HoldenDirector: Sidney Lumet
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
Editor: Alan Heim
Producer: Fred C. Caruso
Producer: Howard Gottfried
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Prophet of the Airwaves
Summary: 5 Stars
A must see picture that works on every level - it is superbly written, acted and directed. In spite of the industry it condemns, it IS entertaining in a way that occasionally raises the hairs on your neck.
"We're all you know! You're beginning to beleive the illusions we're spinning here.
You're beginning to think the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You DO whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube.. you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs!
In God's name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now! Turn them off!"
But before you do, watch this movie. It can have the effect of confirming what you know about TV already - that it influences everyone deeply and no one seems to notice.
Great flick. Entertaining and enlightening.
Summary of Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:by Director Sidney Lumet
Theatrical Trailer
Documentaries:The Making of Network (6-part Documentary): The World and Words of Paddy Chayefsky; The Cast, the Characters; The Experience; The Style; Mad as Hell! The Creation of a Movie Moment; A Classic; Network by Walter Cronkite
Featurette:Dinah! Episodes featuring Peter Finch (1976) and Paddy Chayefsky (1977)
Media madness reigns supreme in screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's scathing satire about the uses and abuses of network television. But while Chayefsky's and director Sidney Lumet's take on television may seem quaint in the age of "reality TV" and Jerry Springer's talk-show fisticuffs, it's every bit as potent now as it was when the film was released in 1976. And because Chayefsky was one of the greatest of all dramatists, his Oscar-winning script about the ratings frenzy at the cost of cultural integrity is a showcase for powerhouse acting by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight (who each won Oscars), and Oscar nominee William Holden in one of his finest roles. Finch plays a veteran network anchorman who's been fired because of low ratings. His character's response is to announce he'll kill himself on live television two weeks hence. What follows, along with skyrocketing ratings, is the anchorman's descent into insanity, during which he fervently rages against the medium that made him a celebrity. Dunaway plays the frigid, ratings-obsessed producer who pursues success with cold-blooded zeal; Holden is the married executive who tries to thaw her out during his own seething midlife crisis. Through it all, Chayefsky (via Finch) urges the viewer to repeat the now-famous mantra "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" to reclaim our humanity from the medium that threatens to steal it away. --Jeff Shannon
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