(R) USA – 2 hr 1 min
1976 · d. Sidney Lumet
Starring Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this any more!” Celebrate Art House Theater Day with Sidney’s Lumet’s incendiary media satire, which surely doesn’t feel timely, not one bit. When a soon-to-be-axed news anchor starts raving against systemic corruption and threatens to off himself on air, an ambitious producer decides it’s good TV and resolves to take the concept as far as it can go.
Art House Theater Day honors the legacy of independent theaters as advocates for cinema arts. In an age where media is more digital than tangible, more solitary than social, art house theaters create spaces for filmgoers to congregate and connect with intrepid, creative filmmaking.
