Network  — 4K 02/24/26

Easily the most prescient picture of the 1970s, Paddy Chayefsky’s warning of broadcast horrors to come couldn’t be more relevant to today’s news media communication morass. Corporate values turn a venerated TV news institution into an infotainment sewer, years before the advent of brain-snatching Reality TV. The satire is hilariously spot-on with its targeting of greed, hypocrisy and old-fashioned Yankee venality. Everybody deserved Oscars: William Holden, Peter Finch, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight and the much-missed Robert Duvall. Only Faye Dunaway survives!  Satire may be dead, but Chayefsky’s ‘window shout’ classic keeps yelling at top volume. On 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
02/24/26