Adam Curtis

Should have checked it was almost 3 hours long before watching it at midnight...

I did the exact same thing.

Whoever the fuck did the post needs to work out what anamorphic video looks like, it's a right mess.

I don't think It's my reasoning that's the problem here... Do you believe ufo sightings are being used to cover up secret covert government ops as part of some double bluff conspiracy? I'm not convinced.

I'm not sure it's something you can prove either way, but it's presented as fact, or at least as a convenient segue into the next segment. It's something he does often which is unfortunate as it makes any actual points he may have kinda hard to spot.

I actualol'd at that point...

Adam Curtis rules. I keep hoping he'll make a 5th episode of The Century Of The Self along the lines of how we've turned into a society of purposeless, selfish, self-regarding automatons in love with our own reflections as we stare vacuously into our mobile phones, creating false identities on social media and a desperately click-hungry media reflecting our own fear and loathing back at ourselves in Guardian CIF comments etc.

Tbf I've always been in love with my own reflection... #sexsellz

Have to agree. I found the doc a fascinating watch and I think I learnt a thing or two but there's definitely a blurring of the conspiracy theory/educated hunch/plain fact spectrum that constantly had me thinking "reference, please!" Reminds me of following a few fb friends who have genuinely changed my outlook on a lot of things, but don't help themselves by posting highly spurious or outright bogus links without fact-checking, just because it chimes with their own world view.

Film is way too long. Agree that some moments you just find yourself thinking 'says you!!', and also all those

Stupid

graphics

make

you

think he forgot

to write that stuff in the VO script.

Too many meaningless chapter titles too.

Surprised there wasn't

'Lying to Mr Beeb'*

The Syria/Iran/Gadaffi story is really interesting, not really been encapsulated for me before so I'm thankful to have seen it. Also think the stuff about compartmentalised internet networks (where campaigners are just preaching to the choir, your 'friends' networks only affirm your beliefs) was interesting.

*EM Forster nerd Klaxon

where campaigners are just preaching to the choir, your 'friends' networks only affirm your beliefs

kinda like this show...?

from his wacki peag:

I have a more libertarian tendency [...] What's astonishing in our time is how the Left here has completely failed to come up with any alternatives, and I think you may well see a lefty libertarianism emerging because people will be much more sympathetic to it, or just a libertarianism, and out of that will come ideas. And I don't mean "localism".[2]

Found Surkov's wife's instagram.

Kadyrov
https://www.instagram.com/p/fFTO4_gKas/?taken-by=natan_d
Damien Hirst
https://www.instagram.com/p/Y07JB1AKdv/?taken-by=natan_d

The Kadyrov one references someones birthday.

@M_A_X posted this, a fine parody of Curtis' style :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMPxSqEwFXI&feature=youtu.be

(and Trump of course)

https://youtu.be/thd5bBUNEw8

God, he's patronising even in a 2 minute promo.

From Massive Attack to Miley Cyrus: Adam Curtis’s favourite cover versions
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/feb/05/from-massive-attack-to-miley-cyrus-adam-curtiss-favourite-cover-versions

its out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p093wpgw/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-series-1-1-part-one-bloodshed-on-wolf-mountain

Charlie Brooker in conversation with Adam Curtis

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad8db/adam-curtis-charlie-brooker-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head

5/5 Review
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/feb/11/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-review-adam-curtis-bbc

I've seen all 6 now, interesting stuff as ever

interesting but a total mind fuck. For me at least. Some of those stories he finds though are incredible.

Am halfway through atm, think even with all the usual caveats about his particular way of telling a massive global story it's an incredible piece of work just in terms of having found and synthesised so many granular histories and pieces of footage. Also honestly just given the mushy remains of my brain at this point in lockdown 3 it feels like a genuine treat to get taken off into such a massive ambitious narrative. Good TV imo.

Adam's latest project:
https://twitter.com/johntuckerart/status/1361752594759221253

Sandra Paul, '60s model who (inexplicably) married the Douglas Home,
who committed suicide after a divorce that showed how controlling he was.
I don't remember the 1st show, (only finished Nos. 1 &2), informing us of her outcome.
She ends up as Mrs. Michael Howard, the last of the three stooges,
(Tory leaders failing vs Tony Blair, Hague, IDS, Howard).

In some ways it's a bit of a greatest hits for him

This latest one is a single film made up of lot of abridged versions of his back catalogue