Adam Curtis

craner

Beast of Burden
I remember watching Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen in The Power of Nightmares when it first aired, and thinking "these guys are taking the piss out of Curtis. They're laughing at him." I mean, wacth Ledeen - he can hardly contain himself!
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Yeah, he should stick to found footage rather than humans really, he's got a gift for that.

AND he went to school with Gang of Four.
 

sufi

lala
Yeah, he should stick to found footage rather than humans really, he's got a gift for that.

AND he went to school with Gang of Four.
yeah
The first episode, which builds up to the riots, is by far the strongest and the one in which the unmistakable hand of Curtis is most keenly felt. Both aesthetically in how it combines ghostly archival footage, abrupt cuts and absurd visual jokes to terrific effect, and thematically, in its scrutiny of ideology, authority and how random moments can alter epochs. By contrast, the next two chapters are tonally inconsistent and narratively unfocused. Following the Driscolls’ trek across “an island that’s gone mad”, these episodes jump erratically from contemporary issues to semi-mythic allegory; survival adventure to domestic drama; winking whimsy to po-faced soul-searching.
★★☆☆☆
BBC1, tonight at 9pm, then weekly. All three episodes on BBC iPlayer now
 
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