Network (1976), directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway (VIDEO)
Watch the trailer for Network, directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway; No. 46 on our list of the 100 best New York movies.
Tue Jul 3 2012
New York movies: Network (1976)
More jeremiad than satire, Sidney Lumet’s well-oiled production of Paddy Chayefsky’s prophetic masterpiece follows an amoral TV conglomerate that exploits a mentally ill news anchor by turning his low-rated national news show into whorehouse entertainment. This still-prescient vivisection of modern culture’s vapidity crackles with the nervous energy of midtown’s hothouse broadcasters.—Stephen Garrett
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