What does Adam Curtis know?
In his latest series, the documentarian collages an Eighties revolution framed by Margaret Thatcher and Stephen Hawking.
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The savagery of Alexander McQueen
The designer saw the skull beneath the skin of a Britain slipping into paranoia and distrust.
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Adam Curtis’s magic lantern through Russia
The documentary-maker’s new series shows how a country traumatised by the failures of communism and capitalism ended up with Vladimir…
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Adam Curtis: “Big Tech and Big Data have been completely useless in this crisis”
The film-maker’s new series Can’t Get You Out of My Head explores why the age of individualism has left us uncertain, anxious and distrustful.
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Adam Curtis: “We don’t read newspapers because the journalism is so boring”
An interview with Adam Curtis, producer of the BBC documentaries The Power of Nightmares and The Century of the Self.
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A new video brilliantly demolishes the documentary maker's method.
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Adam Curtis on the lost history of Helmand
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