#adam curtis documentary

[wandering-alien]

Adam Curtis talks about how our age of individualism with ideas about needing completely free and independent identities means that nobody falls head over heels in love and gives themselves up to the emotion and the person they love but when Hozier sung 'No grave can hold my body down/I'll crawl home to her' that hit. That was beautiful.

And this is coming from the person who still doesn't really understand romantic relationships.

[wandering-alien]

This is objectively hilarious, but y'all should watch Adam Curtis' documentary The Power Of Nightmares because it's a really good narrative about terrorism and how actually Al-Qaeda and that whole spiel is actually very different to how it was portrayed in (largely western) media. Also just a very good series of films.

Yes this is ridiculously nerdy and basically unrelated to the original post but i have binged it three times this week.

op turned off reblogs but i’m gonna pass out laughing over this

[gifmovie]

[nando161mando]

shot from an Adam Curtis documentary, text reads: part three there is a policeman inside all our heads and he must be destroyed

[michaelsmosey]

[rrrauschen]

Adam Curtis, {2022} TraumaZone 01 (1985-1989)

[harrison-abbott]

[lostfunzones]

The Century of the Self / (Full Adam Curtis Documentary).

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

HyperNormalization

documentary film by Adam Curtis (2016)

We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks. And those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - they have no idea what to do. This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them. It shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us we accept it as normal. But there is another world outside. Forces that politicians tried to forget and bury forty years ago - that then festered and mutated - but which are now turning on us with a vengeful fury. Piercing though the wall of our fake world."

[donotdestroy]

The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)

[teledyn]

TraumaZone (2022)

When Empires fail. Like theirs. Like ours.

[dvanw]

master class Adam Curtis @ Forum des images

[invisibleicewands]

[...] The Way was devised and directed by the actor Michael Sheen. He recruited Sherwood author James Graham to write the script and convinced the documentary film-maker Adam Curtis to step in as an executive producer. But he also cast his home town as the drama’s chief location, the molten core of his tale. “The thing about Port Talbot is that it’s haunted by the ghosts of uprisings past,” he explains, of the bullish 20th-century steel town turned scrappy, post-industrial survivor. “It’s got that dormant rebel spirit in its DNA. The whole town feels like a dragon slumbering in a cave.”

Sheen, like Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins before him, graduated from Port Talbot to pursue a lucrative acting career in London and Los Angeles. Unlike them, though, he has since circled back and now lives locally. He thinks that the catalyst was the acclaimed 72-hour production of The Passion that he staged in the town back in 2011. It reconnected him with his roots, helped him understand the place in the round.

“So that feeling of coming back to my home town and it also being a set is something I’d experienced before,” he says. “The difference was that this production took longer. This involved me shutting down the high street for a week. Obviously, people aren’t going to be so nice about that. But I knew I had a bit of trust left over from The Passion that I could still use up.” [...]

[...] “Yeah, there’s a strange tone to it,” Sheen agrees. “You don’t know whether you’re in a horror film or a sitcom or a farce. We wanted it to be constantly surprising, to reflect what we’ve all been going through these last 10 years. The absurdity of reality. The situation that we’re in.” [...]

[...] One thing about home: we never truly escape it. It haunts us if we stay and it haunts us if we leave. That’s been Sheen’s experience. It’s what makes The Way feel so personal. “I mean, it’s a big political story,” he says. “But it’s also my story. It taps into all of my feelings about home.” [...]

[...] “I remember reading about how HG Wells set The War of the Worlds in his home town of Woking,” Sheen says. “I think Edgar Wright did the same thing, setting Hot Fuzz in Wells. So there’s a small tradition that I’m now a part of, where people set stories in their home town and then blow it up.” He grins at the thought. “There’s something satisfying about turning the place where you grew up into an apocalyptic bombsite. Destroying your home town. But destroying it with love.”

[stargir1z]

sept 20 2024

several new ideas today. been thru a whirlwind of imbalances. slept too much again. but there's been a lot of turnover. feeling aloof and untethered both bad and good. i bought a moleskine thats red, lipstick red, for too much money, and a beautiful italian edition of a small book by bataille. there were a couple other things i wanted in italian but they were already gone today... ill order them online hopefully off of abebooks. i want to read calvino in italian or at least try. plan for tomorrow... well i'm supposed to go with the people to some things. or i could just do my own thing, eat that 7 euro udon that looks fine asf, buy some jeans finally, watch my adam curtis documentary. i'll see the weather. also wanted to get some eiag stuff done. i don't feel much today, hence the loose and sleepy words. i miss my planner. that's all

[rrrauschen]

Adam Curtis, {2022} TraumaZone 07 (1995-1999)