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'Network' (1976) + Live Recording of Past Present Future With Helen Lewis
Tue, 18 Mar
|Regent Street Cinema, London
Join us for a special screening of 'Network' followed by a live recording of PPF with Helen Lewis, as part of our Great Political Films series.
Time & Location
18 Mar 2025, 19:00 – 22:00
Regent Street Cinema, London, 307 Regent St., London W1B 2HW, UK
About the event
Join us for a special screening of 'Network' followed by a live recording of the podcast in which David will be joined by PPF regular Helen Lewis, as part of our 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…