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TV & Film:Film Interviews
In 1976, an American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, called Network, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including best film, best director and best editor. Network, won four Academy Awards, including Oscars for Chayefsky’s script, Beatrice Straights’ performance as an outraged wife, Faye Dunaway’s performance as a cynical programming executive and Peter Finch’s frenetic portrayal of Howard Beale, the troubled “mad prophet of the airwaves.”
Thirty-five years later, Network remains an incendiary if an influential film, and its screenplay is still admired as much for its predictive accuracy as for its vehemence and a relentless sense of purpose. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of “The Social Network,” and wrote later that “no predictor of the future — not even Orwell — has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ‘Network.’ ”
Alan Heim, the picture editor of the film, Mark Laub, one from a team of sound editors, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf, the first assistant editor and the apprentice editor on the film at the time, tell their stories of how the film came together and what it was like in various stages working with director Sidney Lumet, writer Paddy Chayefsky and Producer Howard Gottfried.
FXF0305 DAVID MAMET: BARBARA TULLIVER, MAURICE SCHELL AND MICHAEL BARRY
FXF0304 ROBERT-BENTON : TOM FLEISCHMAN, BOB REITANO AND MICHAEL JACOBI
FXF0303 BRIAN DEPALMA : KRIS BODEN, LEE DICHTER, BILL PANKOW, DAN SABLE, MAURICE SCHELL
FXF0302 ALAN J PAKULA : RON BOCHAR, CHIC CICCOLINI, LEE DICHTER, TODD KASOW, DEBORAH WALLACH
FXF0301 ARTHUR PENN : SUZANA PERIC, STEVE ROTTER, RON ROOSE, MARC LAUB, JEFFREY WOLF, BOB REITANO
FXF0401 GEORGE ROY HILL: STEVE ROTTER, CRAIG MCKAY, LEE DICHTER, TOM FLEISCHMAN, BRUCE WINANT, MICHAEL JACOBI
FXF0404 SPIKE LEE: BARRY ALEXANDER BROWN, TOM FLEISCHMAN, PHIL STOCKTON, JUDY ALEY
FXF0503 JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL AND THE RISE OF NEW QUEER CINEMA with BRIAN KATES, JOHN BAIR AND BEN CHEAH
FXF0402 MIRA NAIR ALLYSON JOHNSON, BARRY BROWN, DOMINICK TAVELLA, JENNIFER DUNNINGTON, DAVID PATTERSON, TONY MARTINEZ, DAVID SMITH
FXF0403 RON HOWARD: MIKE HILL, CHIC CICCOLINI, TOM FLEISCHMAN, BOB CHEFALAS
FXF0405 BOB FOSSE with ALAN HEIM, LEE DICHTER, DAN SABLE, MEL ZELNICKER
FXF0406 VICE NEWS' CHARLOTTESVILLE: RACE AND TERROR, THE TEAM BEHIND THE MOST WATCHED NEWS DOC IN HISTORY: TIM CLANCY, JOHN CHIMPLES, DENNY THOMAS, CAMERON DENNIS
FXF0502 FREE SOLO WITH CHAI VASARHELYI, DEBORAH WALLACH, BOB EISENHARDT, TOM FLEISCHMAN AND RIC SCHNUPP
FXF0501 THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL : KATE SANFORD AND TIM STREETO
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