Our “Hard To Be Free” series closes out with a special Art House Theater Day presentation of this hardball satire of American mass media, which has remained strikingly, presciently relevant at every moment in the half century since its release.

Veteran news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) discovers that he’s being put out to pasture, and he’s none too happy about it. He launches into an angry televised rant, which turns out to be a huge ratings boost for the UBS network. This stunt allows ambitious producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) to develop even more outrageous programming, a concept that she takes to unsettling extremes.

“Everything about the movie is thrilling and flawless.” – Times UK

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