Sidney Lumet: A Life Behind the Camera

Network, 1976
In Network, Peter Finch, as a TV news anchorman whose ratings skyrocket when he goes raving mad on the air, was a lunatic parody that turned into prophesy, prefiguring Glenn Beck by about 35 years. "It's not satire," Lumet and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky would say of their film. "It's sheer reportage."

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