Network at Presentation Hall

Best Picture nominee about a mentally unstable news anchor who, after being told he's to be fired, becomes a media superstar when he begins delivering nightly rants and threatens an on-air suicide for his final broadcast. Paddy Chayevsky's script won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; Peter Firth received a posthumous Best Actor award; and Faye Dunaway won Best Actress as a scheming network exec. The screening is part of the Classic Films Now series introduced and hosted by Rafer Guzmán.