1. Network movie review & film summary (1976) | Roger Ebert
The story centers on Diana Christiansen (Faye Dunaway), the ratings-hungry programming executive who is prepared to do anything for better numbers. The mirror ...
Strange, how Howard Beale, "the mad prophet of the airwaves," dominates our memories of "Network." We remember him in his soaking-wet raincoat, hair plastered
2. Network Summary - GradeSaver
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The Network Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
3. Network (1976) - Filmsite.org
In the middle of a drinking marathon on a nighttime street in Manhattan, Beale's boss and old friend and admirer Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of ...
Network (1976) is director Sidney Lumet's brilliant, pitch-black criticism of the hollow, lurid wasteland of television journalism where entertainment value and short-term ratings were more crucial than quality. Paddy Chayefsky's black, prophetic, satirical commentary/criticism of corporate evil (in the tabloid-tainted television industry) is an insightful indictment of the rabid desire for ratings by the media - eerily prescient even for the present age. Indignation toward the network executives by an unbalanced news-anchorman (Finch) ("I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore") is manipulated by ruthless VP programming boss (Dunaway) for further ratings.
4. Network | Rotten Tomatoes
Synopsis In this lauded satire, veteran news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) discovers that he's being put out to pasture, and he's none too happy about it ...
In this lauded satire, veteran news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) discovers that he's being put out to pasture, and he's none too happy about it. After threatening to shoot himself on live television, instead he launches into an angry televised rant, which turns out to be a huge ratings boost for the UBS network. This stunt allows ambitious producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) to develop even more outrageous programming, a concept that she takes to unsettling extremes.
5. Classic 70s Movie: “Network” | by Scott Myers | Go Into The Story
IMDB Plot Summary: A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit. Why I ...
IMDB Plot Summary: A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit. Why I Think This Is A Classic 70s Movie: Network…
6. Until I Find a Better Example: A Review of “Network” - The Catalyst
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By Joseph Ha I’m hesitant to reference popular films as allegories for modern issues. While these movies’ stories are important and reveal a lot about human nature, viewers overcite them to the poi…
7. The Film 'Network' Darkly Predicted Our Paranoid Politics
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Sidney Lumet’s award-winning satire exposed the media’s attitude of ‘anything for ratings’
8. Network movie review & film summary (1976) | Roger Ebert
It attempts to suggest that multinational corporations are the only true contemporary government, but does so in a scene that slips too broadly into satire, so ...
There's a moment near the beginning of "Network" that has us thinking this will be the definitive indictment of national television we've been promised. A
9. Network | Reelviews Movie Reviews
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See AlsoBedbathandbeyond Flemington NjIn motion pictures, there are essentially three types of satire: a fatuous, silly kind that emphasizes jokes to the exclusion of all else; a lightly comic approach that gently pokes fun at issues while developing a plot and characters; and a vicious...
10. REVIEW: The movie Network is a satire that turned out to be real
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The movie Network has reached its 45th anniversary and with it comes the shocking realization that this piece of satire has actually predicted the current state of our media.
11. Network Movie Review | Common Sense Media
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Biting '76 satire with a media-literacy lesson. Read Common Sense Media's Network review, age rating, and parents guide.
12. Network | The Definitives | Deep Focus Review
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A battle between cinema and television has raged since the earliest monochrome broadcasts became popular in American homes during the 1950s. When the
13. 'Network': THR's 1976 Review - The Hollywood Reporter
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On November 27, 1976, MGM's prescient drama hit theaters.
14. 30 Days of Screenplays, Day 10: “Network” - Go Into The Story
Plot summary: A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. Tagline: Not since the ...
Why 30 screenplays in 30 days?
15. Review: Network (1976) - 4 Star Films
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“We’re not talking about eternal truth or absolute truth or ultimate truth! We’re talking about impermanent, transient, human truth! I don’t expect you people to be capable …
16. Network (1976) Review
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Review of Sidney Lumet's 1976 film Network, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden and Peter Finch
17. Network (1976) - Movie Review / Film Essay - Gone With The Twins
T. he unseen narrator (William Holden) states that this film is about Howard Beale (Peter Finch), an 11-year veteran anchor of the UBS television station, whose ...
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