Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.


December 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 74

Total Comments: 65


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Network / / 1976

Writer Paddy Chayefsky and director Sydney Lumet’s 1976 drama (apparently not intended as a “satire”) about a network’s manipulation of a deranged news anchorman. Still potent, scathingly funny and dead on. Faye Dunaway is great as the sexy, hair-tossing, killer television director. William Holden is effective as the has-been director manipulated by Dunaway. Beatrice Straigt (as Holden’s wife) has a marvelous moment confronting Holden about his infidelity. And Finch is wonderfully insane as the deranged/sacrificial lamb anchor man. The editing is incredible – there’s never a dull moment or wasted scene, though the film lacks the scope of other broadcast news films.

by Marlin Tyree | Source: Warner Home Video DVD
09 Dec 2006 12:34 PM | Submit Comment


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