Network
Sidney Lumet / US, 1976 / 121 min.
Network, about a newsreader obsessed with viewing figures, proved a particularly prescient prediction of how news programmes started to slide ever more towards entertainment, populism and spectacle. Sidney Lumet’s film inspired Ivo van Hove to create the play of the same name. See the exhibition All About Theatre About Film.
When newsreader Howard Beale hears that he’s being fired because of disappointing viewing figures, he announces during a broadcast that he’s going to commit suicide – live on TV.
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Director
Sidney Lumet
Production year
1976
Country
US
Original title
Network
Length
121 min.
Language
English
Format
Blu-ray
Part of
All About Theatre About Film
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