SUN MAR 17, 2024 7:00 PM NETWORK / THE HOSPITAL $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | St. Paddy Chayefsky Day! Programmed by Jim Hemphill and Kelly Goodner Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILMS: NETWORK, 1976, Dir. Sidney Lumet, 121 Min, Park Circus, USA Howard Beale, a veteran newscaster, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he “skews old” – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final programme. An ambitious programming executive convinces her superiors to let the broadcast go ahead, hoping that the final event will give the network its greatest ratings ever. FORMAT: DCP THE HOSPITAL, 1971, Dir. Arthur Hiller, 103 Min, Park Circus, USA From director Arthur Hiller comes this caustic comedy starring George C. Scott as a besieged doctor in a bureaucratic mega-hospital who meets a free-spirit (Diana Rigg) just in time. FORMAT: 35mm