Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky\'s 1976 satire imagined live televised breakdowns, terrorism-as-content, and corporate ventriloquism as the network business model. Every prediction the film made about American media has come true with terrifying precision.
An essential entry — Network embodies exactly what this collection is about.
Sidney Lumet films Howard Beale's 'I'm as mad as hell' broadcast as the genre's foundational monologue. The film's argument: the medium will use everything it can hold, including the speech.
An essential entry — Network embodies exactly what this collection is about.
A pivotal entry in this collection — Network represents exactly what makes this theme essential viewing.
Sidney Lumet imagined a news anchor screaming on-air and a network monetizing his breakdown. Half a century later it is just called cable news. Howard Beale’s "mad as hell" speech is now everyone’s daily Twitter draft.
Sidney Lumet imagined a news anchor screaming and a network monetizing his breakdown — half a century later it is just called CNN.
'I'm as mad as hell' — Lumet's prophecy about television turning news into rage-for-ratings. Every year it looks less like satire.
