Network (1976)
Sidney Lumet’s 1976 TV news satire. Paddy Chayefsky screenplay. Peter Finch’s I’m mad as hell speech. Predictive and ferocious.
Faye Dunaway
This page collects the films featuring Faye Dunaway reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Chinatown (1974)”, “Network (1976)”, and “The Towering Inferno (1974)”. Each review examines the performance and the role it plays in the film’s larger design, approaching the work as storytelling first. The collection grows as further titles are added.
Chinatown (1974)
Polanski’s 1974 Los Angeles neo-noir. Nicholson, Dunaway, Huston. Robert Towne screenplay. The water-rights conspiracy that defined New Hollywood pessimism.
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Towering Inferno is the best disaster film of the 1970s and the model against which every subsequent disaster film has been measured. John Guillermin…