Fifty years in the past, Rocky was launched and would win Greatest Image on the 1977 Academy Awards. However it was up in opposition to some stiff competitors, with Community among the many sizzling contenders.
In honor of the 50-year milestone, The Criterion Assortment simply launched a 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Particular Version of Community, whose gifted ensemble contains the late, nice Robert Duvall.
And proper now, there is a 30% low cost throughout Criterion’s web site — which means the movie’s 2-disc special-edition launch is marked down from $49.95 to $34.97, and the single-disc is right down to $31.96 from $39.95.
View this submit on Instagram“This media satire, directed by Sidney Lumet from a brilliantly incisive script by Paddy Chayefsky, is an X-ray of the corrupted soul of a corporate-dominated America, startlingly prescient in its anticipation of right this moment’s outrage-driven information cycle,” the positioning’s synopsis of Community reads, for these not but acquainted with the Oscar-winning masterpiece. “At a struggling tv community, bold government Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) finds herself with successful on her fingers when disgruntled newscaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) goes off script, remodeling himself right into a mad-as-hell prophet railing in opposition to the ills of recent society.
The outline continues, “However can she management the populist revolution they’ve unleashed on the airwaves? Garnering 4 Oscars, together with for Dunaway, Finch, and Chayefsky, this no-holds-barred New Hollywood traditional stays as fearlessly humorous as it’s unnervingly related.”
On Saturday, Feb. 21, Rolling Stone famous that Community nonetheless “in some way feels extra stunning, extra sobering, and extra well timed than ever” as of late.
“In 1976, the concept placing ‘a manifestly irresponsible man on nationwide tv,’ preaching a no-bulls–t gospel of sticking it to the Man, in addition to pitching a present that hopes to show political firebrands into the subsequent sweeps-week superstars, was outrageous,” the journal’s David Concern writes in an article revealed Saturday, Feb. 21. “In 2026, each can be thought of tame — although, to be honest, the applications would nonetheless generate an abundance of memes and have hundreds of thousands of followers on their respective YouTube channels.”
