Watched: Network 🎬

My next Movies Scene By Scene project will be the Sidney Lumet directed film “Network” by Paddy Chayevsky. It’s not only a brilliant, prophetic film, but also an essential piece of 1970s cultural history, harkening to a time much like ours. boxd.it/1VqG

I am bringing back my old URL for My Montaigne Project so that I can continue work on a couple of projects.

The first is the second edition of my book “Essai by Essay.” I’m already deep into the editing process on the new edition, but I think it would be helpful to slow down a little and workshop some of the chapter revisions, so I’m going to do that on the blog.

The second is my new “Network” project, which will include not just my scene-by-scene approach to the film, but also a cultural history of the early 70s, which I think is essential to attaining a full understanding of the film.

These projects will happen in conjunction, and will likely span over several weeks. We’ll see what comes after all.

By the way, I’ve also converted my danielmconley.com site into an author’s site that I’ll use primarily to promote my books. That URL does have a blog attached to it, but I will likely use it only to announce new publications and, from time to time, link to content here.