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Internet Archive (plays fast or download) http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
follow episode 1 up with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C5XuylNFLo
:-)
― dean ge, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
[/i]Curtis has a remarkable feel for the serendipity of such moments, and an obsessive skill in locating them. 'That kind of footage shows just how dull I can be,' he admits, a little glumly. 'The BBC has an archive of all these tapes where they have just dumped all the news items they have ever shown. One tape for every three months. So what you get is this odd collage, an accidental treasure trove. You sit in a darkened room, watch all these little news moments, and look for connections.'[/i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis
how exactly does he do this? i mean he cant go through every single tape each time he makes a new doc, does anyone know his technique? does he keep a database of all interesting potential scenes?
is he working on anything now? i recently watched his 1996 doc about nick leeson & barings bank, such a fascinating well-made doc, i can't believe it hasn't been repeated recently.
― NI, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i just started watching the 1st series of Mad Men and it seems kinda...informed by Century of the Self, somehow. maybe it's just that the production design reminds me of Curtis's archive footage.
― unaustralian (jabba hands), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if this will come to London.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/20/it-felt-like-a-kiss
― Alba, Saturday, 20 June 2009 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Got tickets for the 9th, really looking forward to it. If it's a critical and commercial hit then no reason why it should not play elsewhere (a bit like Albarn's Monkey opera did after debuting at the MIF) - I imagine that Punchdrunk could adapt the staging for different venues?
― Bill A, Saturday, 20 June 2009 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
looks awesome!
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 20 June 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't say I'm keen - Albarn and Kronos, especially the latter, just can't stand anything they touch.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 June 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope the future interweb stuff gets broadcast on TV.
The entire run is completely sold out already up here.
― piscesx, Sunday, 21 June 2009 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
NI and myself saw the first night preview of IT FELT LIKE A KISS last night and chatted to the great man! I'd love to say more but i won't spoil the surprises.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
it was just the most incredible thing. when i left i was a gibbering mess. ive set up a group on facebook for people who've 'done' it.
at the end curtis was saying it wouldn't be transferrable to tv because of all the copyright issues. i wish i could've recorded my brain for the 3 hours i was in there last night.
― NI, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow - super excited for this now. Roll on the 9th! Seeing Kraftwerk tomorrow at the MIF too as "filler" until then...
― Bill A, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
sold out too fast. gutted.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
MIF so far has been an absolute bobby dazzler - Kraftwerk were *awesome* and It Felt Like A Kiss properly ace too. Just got back from it and still mulling over the whole thing. I probably read too much beforehand so was ready for some of the setpieces (which removed a bit of the thrill), but as a whole it was so immersive and exciting: brilliantly conceived and staged, and the central film was amazing.
The reviews I've seen have a bit of a downer on the final section, but I enjoyed this part the best esp. the "do this" area and the final enforced separation from the rest of the group. Would really like to go through it again tbh to be able to spend more time nosing around the rooms and the "clues" etc.
― Bill A, Thursday, 9 July 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2009/07/it_felt_like_a_kiss_the_film.html
― nate woolls, Friday, 24 July 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
brilliant, been waiting so long for this
Bill A, and anyone else who went to IFLAK in Manchester, there's a facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98110067894
apparently it's been put on in London and Moscow - if anyone's even slightly interested, buy a ticket the moment they go on sale!
― NI, Friday, 24 July 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I watched this this morning and am sort of shaky from it - it wasn't even that it was in-and-of-itself powerful, but it was exhausting because i kept having to try and work out what connections I was supposed to be drawing and whether I thought they were appropriate connections or conspiracist nonsense.
― la belle dame sans serif (c sharp major), Friday, 7 August 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
argh when i say 'this' i mean 'it felt like a kiss'
main problem i have with it is that the music is so great i zone out of whatever point he's making and enjoy it on a 'incredibly awesome 50 min music video' level. which is great, but means im gonna have to watch it again *properly*. i guess i need curtis himself to explain things more directly - at least an article by him would be good.
watched the trap again this week and was surprised to see he reuses quite a bit of footage in IFLAK
― NI, Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
he reused a fair amount from Power of Nightmares in the Trap as well.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Saturday, 8 August 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching It Felt Like A Kiss again this morning. Still superb, formally his best film by some distance imo
― .. help? (admrl), Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it online somewhere? Still haven't been able to see it.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
hi Col1n! I think the BBC was streaming it but probably not to overseas viewers. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find a torrent (or fragments on Youtube), but I could always mail you a copy if you want to contact me off-list. Alternatively, are you on K4r4g4rg4 or any such sites?
― .. help? (admrl), Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfIFeqScJz8
and so on...
― .. help? (admrl), Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh no audio!
try here instead:
http://www.greylodge.org/tracker/
― .. help? (admrl), Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks Adam! Not on Karagarg@, don't really fuck with torrents unless I have to.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, I see. I'm never sure about the ethics of torrenting (is this a word?) hard to see stuff, myself. It's not talked about much?
― .. help? (admrl), Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
There is a ton of Adam Curtis's stuff available for download from archive.org. My favorites are "The Trap" and "Century of the Self." I tried watching "It Felt Like A Kiss on an airplane, on my ipod, and that was the wrong way to watch it. It put me in a funk. I had to listen to so much Real McCoy to recover.
― full of country goodness and green pea-ness (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not so worried about the ethics -- most of the stuff I would want is more or less out of circulation. I just hate watching anything longer than half an hour on my computer.
― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
will 'power of nightmares' ever get a u.s. dvd release, i wonder? watched the first part of it in a college class a couple years ago and thought it was fantastically well done.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
FAO Curtis stans (kurdistans?!): he has a new show coming soon. According to Charlie Brooker's twitter:
1) It is called 'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace'.2) Twitter shows up in it.3) It'll be on the TV quite soon.
Have really enjoyed his blog posts, but nuff excited for another series.
― sktsh, Saturday, 2 April 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Adam Curtis on the death of Bin Laden
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
read headline, clicked back to this thread
― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
ok went back in
he's kind of getting a lot worse as time wears on
When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries – that of the global battle against a distant dark and evil force – came to an abrupt end.
now... was communism a 'story', or was it on some level an actual historical reality?
― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
sorta don't see what the omg what an asshole thing is with trying to sort out historical/cultural narratives
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
like there's a GOP narrative of People Are Being Taxed to Death! which is bullshit, but if you show me a guy whose taxes are a burden that doesn't validate their narrative & undermine any detailing of it
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a broken record on some things
kinda baudrillardwave solipsism
― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
do i have to point out the obvious and say curtis has a big narrative he puts on everything?
manipulation of sheeple with invented narratives employing a corruption of freud -- something like that
― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link