NETWORK (1976) + LIVE RECORDING OF ‘PAST PRESENT FUTURE’ PODCAST WITH DAVID RUNCIMAN & HELEN LEWIS

Join us for a special screening of Network followed by a live recording of the Past Present Future podcast with David Runciman and Helen Lewis, as part of Past Present Future’s Great Political Films series. ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ TV news anchor Howard Beale loses his mind and becomes a messiah for the age of televised lunacy. Sidney Lumet’s multi-Oscar-winning Network (1976) is one of the great prophetic films of the 1970s. Aaron Sorkin said: ‘No predictor of the future – not even Orwell – has ever been as right as Network'. A satire of populism and corporate control, Network is also a glimpse of a world where the truth is whatever gets the most attention. As Peter Bradshaw wrote in the Guardian last year, Network is ‘an anatomy of American discontent ... suicidal ideations born of a scotch hangover, beamed live into every home'. This screening will be followed by a live recording of the Past Present Future podcast with host David Runciman and the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis, to discuss how Hollywood foresaw the future and the film's eerie echoes in the age of Trump. Plus audience Q&A.DramaPT2H2M152025-03-18

Faye Dunaway

William Holden

Peter Finch

Robert Duvall

Ned Beatty

Sidney Lumet

Fred C. Caruso

Howard Gottfried

NETWORK (1976) + LIVE RECORDING OF ‘PAST PRESENT FUTURE’ PODCAST WITH DAVID RUNCIMAN & HELEN LEWIS"NETWORK (1976) + LIVE RECORDING OF ‘PAST PRESENT FUTURE’ PODCAST WITH DAVID RUNCIMAN & HELEN LEWIS"

Showtimes

March 18, 7:00 pm