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
DVD Reviews of Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD 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.
DVD Review: impressive and accurate
Summary: 5 Stars
outstanding movie. i'm surprised it took me so long to hear about it, but i'm glad i did. an excellent satire on current events to this day with an impressive and accurate script that reflects exactly what's going on in big capitalist america.DVD Review: Well, It IS Memorable!
Summary: 3 Stars
Who didn't like this movie when it came out in the mid '70s? It was the number one topic of conversation at work for awhile and Peter Finch's "I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!" became one of the more famous lines in film history.
I saw it a number of times back then and found it fascinating. The more I watched, the more I enjoyed Finch's "Howard Beale" and Ned Beatty's speech to him about "the facts of life (business-wise)." What a great speech! Much of what he said still rings true.
Years later, now that I've changed, this film now is not so appealing. The abuse of the Lord's name in vain is extreme in here, the chief offenders being William Holden and Robert Duvall. This winds up to be a bunch of Left Wing radicals doing their thing. On my last viewing, it made me "mad as hell" and not wanting to watch this again. However, I admit there scenes in here that I will never forget!
DVD Review: Must see
Summary: 5 Stars
I have nothing new to add to the great reviews except to those who complain about the audio/visual issues. Those points are valid, but in the case of this movie, I think content trumps asthetics.DVD Review: One of the best movies EVER made...EVER
Summary: 5 Stars
Network is a classic movie about television and ratings and how the news media stopped producing news and only tv ratings.
Howard Beale is a TV anchor for UBS and has been a staple of the network for years. But when his ratings started dropping, and his wife passing away, Beale becomes more of a distant person.
He's fired for low ratings and his best friend, Max Schumacher notifies him that he has 2 weeks left. They go drinking and at the bar, Howard tells Max that he's going to kill himself on TV...Max responds that if that happened, there would be a 50 share rating.
So the next day, Howard comes out on the air and tells everyone that he will be retiring in 2 weeks because of low ratings and plans on killing himself because he no longer has anything to live for (wife died and no more tv anchor job) and tells the audience to tune in next week.
This causes a complete mess in the executive offices and phone calls start rolling in, ratings immediately jump and the story is covered on the front page of the New York Times. Real news or sensationalism?
Beale becomes a sensation and is even awarded his own primetime show where he rants about being mad, and his catch phrase, "i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it anymore!"
After convincing management that he is crazy, he is allowed to appear on television again, and he starts by apologizing before again, going into a "mad as hell" tirade.
The managers and directors become entrenched with the ratings after at first, being outraged by Beale's foul language sermons, and in particular, Faye Dunaway's character is only interested in ratings, even giving up her personal life to devote to ratings.
In the end, like all things, his show starts to sag and his ratings start to drop, so as usual, the producers and managers have to come up with fresh ideas and they do.
They..........
can't give it away.
check out the movie, great flick.
Description 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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