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Adam Curtis

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44 days ago

The Last Sacrifice review – how a gruesome rural murder embedded folk-horror in the British psyche

Rupert Russell’s fascinating documentary is a sophisticated analysis of how real life and fiction merged in post-empire Britain in the 1960s and 70s

Centred on the unsolved 1945 murder of Warwickshire…

3 months ago

Conspiracies, costume changes, and three-hour deep dives into Twilight: inside the wild west of YouTube video essays

Mixing dense political ideas with allusions to The Sound of Music and BoJack Horseman, these films have become a thrilling DIY artform – one entirely conceived, written, filmed and performed by their…

‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare

Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate …

5 months ago

Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war

Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare

The mood is very fragile. There is a f…

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