David Thomson

"She is akin to the medium: shimmering and hectic, all instant appeal and fended off boredom ... She fidgets and blurs like a TV picture and horizontal hold probably worries her more than grasp on reality." -- Sight and Sound  (?), 1977   -- (originally posted on this blog 8/1/21)

 "....But in Network..., she was the nerve center of the film--agitated, sensation seeking, and as cold as TV itself. At the same time, she was a believable neurotic career woman and a comic-book video creature--the medium and a massage--and she won the best actress Oscar for it...." David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, p. 255 -- (originally posted on this blog 5/19/07)