hahaha
"but in reality!"
came here to post this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3272903211813223143
classic material
― you cant care about popular culture right now and not partake in (history mayne), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen that series. Should I start from the beginning?
― Gukbe, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a strange and brilliant phd student in cambridge made a fascinating discovery.
― A41 (admrl), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Going the Full-Carmody: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/09/the_curse_of_tina.html
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
psyched. read the first bit while listening to floyd cramer's 'on the rebound', to get ready.
― all the small zings (history mayne), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Why we have become so possessed by the ideology of our age that we cannot think outside it.
except i, adam curtis
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
Ha. Obviously undeterred by The Loving Trap-style mockery, he's going the "full Curtis" here:
It is a rollicking saga that involves all sorts of things not normally associated with think tanks - chickens, pirate radio, retired colonels, Jean Paul Sartre, Screaming Lord Sutch, and at its heart is a dramatic and brutal killing committed by one of the very men who helped bring about the resurgence of the free market in Britain.
No wonder he gets so many commissions if his pitches are that good. It's a well-told story. I knew the Shivering Sands story already but didn't know much about Smedley.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
"I want to suggest that the Hug has become a part of the modern problem of not being able to imagine any alternative to the world of today. The Hug is no longer liberating, it is restraining"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/10/the_curse_of_tina_part_two.html
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
aha, the killer final conclusion:
"If we can be taught to hug we can just as easily learn to march and chant."
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
well I'm seeing Loving Grace tom'w
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace
anyone else want to weigh in?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC the consensus around here was that it was even less convincing than usual but still very entertaining.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
I rewatched it last week and enjoyed it more. But yes...stretching.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
This is good:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/01/the_years_of_stagnation_and_th.html
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
^^ also, the following the post about cruise ships, and the history of the owners of the Costa Concordia. Includes a v. funny 60s ALan Whicker clip http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/01/were_all_in_the_same_boat_-_ar.html
― Les Tressle (useless chamber), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
At first sight the search for peace and stability in Iraq, and the search for physical and mental fitness in the extreme contortions of modern Yoga seem to have absolutely nothing in common.
But curiously they do.
― ledge, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/11/while_the_band_played_on.html
a fair point well expressed here
― piscesx, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
but this was a fantasy
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
what a great use of the bbc archivists' time
― NAMES A CUNTZ FAE RENFRA (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
hang on, music changes the way we feel about the images we're seeing?
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
it's true tho, the final scene of andrei rublev is subtly different when set to bbbbbounce by the blackout crew
― NAMES A CUNTZ FAE RENFRA (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
oh you guys..
― piscesx, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
But in amongst all this new-found self-confidence among the pets of Britain there were still the ghosts of the old rigid owner-pet power structure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogadamcurtis/posts/HEAVY-PETTING
― woof, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
i can't even
― jabba hands, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
the kind of self-parody i could get behind tbh
― ledge, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
also looking forward to seeing all these videos of dogs
― ledge, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
― woof
― jabba hands, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
in reality, pets had been learning to post on forums
― woof, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
tbf i think the bit I posted was curtis-does-curtis for lols.
― woof, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
a radical new form of lol
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
where should i start with this guy?
― caek, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x1bX3F7uTrg
― ledge, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
I would say The Mayfair Set: it's a bit more tightly focused than the later work, & the narrative's a bit cleaner, though it keeps going to odd interesting places. Full of fascinating slightly monstrous sorts - Goldsmith, Aspinall etc.
― woof, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
good grief charlie brooker has a lot to answer for xp
thanks woof
― caek, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
Did you guys know about this: http://www.mif.co.uk/event/massive-attack-v-adam-curtis
It Felt Like A Kiss a few years ago was hands down the most mind-blowing few hours of my life. Can't wait for this one.
― NI, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
the financial journalist in the second episode (Christopher Fildes) is amazing. 'I and other people in the financial press were willing dupes'. Can't be said enough. Very good documentaries - nothing more plainly connects the switch from paternalistic (the paternalism of a grotesque controlling father) to unmediated unapologetic-yet-duplicitous socially destructive greed, which is also the recent history of the Tory party.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
YOU THINK YOU ARE A CONSUMER BUT MAYBE YOU HAVE BEEN CONSUMED
Haven't watched these clips yet but I do love his TITLES.
― Alba, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
The cuts may be right, or they may be stupid - but the astonishing thing is how no-one really challenges them.
orly
I think that one of the reasons for this is because a lot of the power that shapes our lives today has become invisible - and so it is difficult to see how it really works and even more difficult to challenge it
difficult to challenge yes, invisible no. these days there are probably as many people trying to pull the wool away from our eyes as trying to pull it over.
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
finished the mayfair set. a little shrill perhaps, but interesting.
and p.s. hmm, the treatment of mohammed al fayed was a little bit ... euphemistic. i'm not saying it was explicitly racist. that is for other people to say.
― caek, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
blimey ..this is dire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/interactive/2013/jul/08/adam-curtis-massive-attack-what-is-reality
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Monday, 8 July 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Seems to have been taken down.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Monday, 8 July 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
What was that, Bob Six?
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
It says "This article was temporarily taken down on Monday 8 July 2013."
Was an except of a poem/text that went with a video installation he did with Massive Attack in Manchester. Several b/w pics, maybe a video clip (couldn't see, was on my phone), quite long, didn't read, just scrolled and saw bits and pieces here and there - do you know what reality is, nicolai ceaucescu and his wife were shot, that's about all I remember :-/
― StanM, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
More info without the actual excerpt: http://m.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/07/adam-curtis-massive-attack-review
― StanM, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
it's had a few sniffy reviews up here even from the Curtis fanbase. a fair few people walked out of the opening night supposedly; spending 2 hours standing up (with no bar!) in a darkened warehouse on a Friday night hasn't gone down to well with folk expecting a more traditional 'gig'.
£36 a pop too.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 05:29 (ten years ago) link
(SPOILER)
liz fraser's in it.
yeah, it's pretty disappointing, esp if you went to It Felt Like A Kiss a few years back. spoke to AC afterwards and he said he's working on turning the current thing into TV production for the BBC but there's a bunch of legal issues to get past so it might never happen (will prob end up on his blog though). He's also working on a new documentary series about massive institutions and how they're broken - including the BBC - *for* the BBC.
― NI, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.latitudefestival.com/line-up/artist/alan-moore-mitch-jenkins-adam-curtis
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
"RD Laing challenged the psychiatric establishment in the 1960s THATCHER THATCHER DEATH WE ARE ALL PROSTITUTES something about prozac"
― the SI unit of ignorance (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
"but this was an illusion."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link