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Sidney Lumet, USA, 1976, 121m
“You say you’re mad as hell that you’ve never seen this corrosive, pitch-perfect satire, and you’re not gonna take it anymore? No need – just head to Walter Reade and plunk down your dough. Holden’s turn as a weary executive who sells out buddy Peter Finch is a late-career highlight.” –Time Out New York

Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s now classic look at the future of television entertainment not only anticipated reality TV but also the numbers-based world of infotainment as we know it. Peter Finch, who died before he could collect his Oscar for best actor, is Howard Beale, the anchorman who unleashes his fury on his own network and their corporate owners after he’s laid off and is subsequently re-made as the “mad prophet of the airwaves.” Faye Dunaway is the tautly strung programming director who dreams up the idea, Robert Duvall is the corporate doomsayer, and Holden plays the news director who witnesses the whole train wreck in progress with sad detachment. Network is filled with powerhouse encounters, but the scene where Dunaway works herself into a rapid-fire orgasm at the middle-aged Holden’s expense might be the movie’s sadly comic highlight.

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Scene PhotoBreezy
Clint Eastwood, USA, 1973, 108m
The winning combination of Holden and Eastwood produced one of the most undervalued films of its era. Kay Lenz plays the title character, a disaffected young hippie who hides out on the property of the middle-aged divorcé played by Holden. May - December romances have been a staple of American movies from the start, but they’ve rarely been this subtly drawn. Rather than a titillating diversion, Breezy is a movie about a human exchange between people from different generations, when the gap between them was at its widest. At this point in his career, Holden had achieved a level of eloquence that put him in a class by himself, and this is one of his best performances.




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