Adam Curtis
| Adam Curtis link Sourcewatch Unwelcome Guests Website (Journalist) | |
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| Born | Kevin Adam Curtis 26 May 1955 Dartford, Kent, England |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
BBC journalist who has produced a number of creditable documentaries | |
Adam Curtis is a BBC journalist who has produced a number of documentaries. These are widely praised for their strong narration and are packed with interesting details. However, fellow filmmaker Scott Noble commented that {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Adam Curtis |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Scott Noble|+sep=, |Has text=“Curtis is an extremely talented filmmaker with an immense repository of archival footage at his disposal (some of which I utilized in Psywar), and he puts out a great product. But I also find that he tends to exaggerate the importance of particular individuals, groups and fanciful ideas in lieu of basic class analysis; he also appears to self-censor, often at critical junctures. I don’t recall seeing the slightest hint of skepticism about the official story of September 11th in The Power of Nightmares.” |Is about=Adam Curtis,9-11, The Power of Nightmares, Adam Curtis|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=28 July 2011 |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL=https://www.meaningfulmovies.org/images/Articles/PsywarDirector%20Interview.pdf }}“Curtis is an extremely talented filmmaker with an immense repository of archival footage at his disposal (some of which I utilized in Psywar), and he puts out a great product. But I also find that he tends to exaggerate the importance of particular individuals, groups and fanciful ideas in lieu of basic class analysis; he also appears to self-censor, often at critical junctures. I don’t recall seeing the slightest hint of skepticism about the official story of September 11th in The Power of Nightmares.” [1]
Productions
Adam Curtis' documentaries are in the public domain and are available at archive.org. Many have been adapted for inclusion in the radio program Unwelcome Guests.[2]
- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2021) [3][4]
- MK Ultra (2017)
- Hypernormalisation (2016)
- Living in an Unreal World (2016)
- Bitter Lake (2015)
- Oh Dearism II (2014)
- Everything is Going According to Plan (2013)
- Every Day Is Like Sunday (2011)
- All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (2011)
- Love and Power
- The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
- The Monkey In The Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
- It Felt Like A Kiss (2009)
- The Rise and Fall of The TV Journalist (2007)
- The Trap (2007)
- Fuck you, Buddy
- The Lonely Robot
- We Will Force You To Be Free
- The Power of Nightmares (2004)
- Baby It's Cold Outside
- The Phantom Victory
- The Shadows in the Cave
- The Century of Self (2002)
- Happiness Machines
- The Engineering of Consent
- There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed
- Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
- The Mayfair Set (1999)
- Who Pays Wins
- Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V.
- Destroy the Technostructure
- Twilight of the Dogs
- Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997)
- 25 Million Pounds (1996)
- The Living Dead (1995)
- On The Desperate Edge of Now
- You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough
- The Attic
- Pandora's Box (1992)
- The Engineer's Plot
- To The Brink of Eternity
- The League of Gentlemen
- Goodbye Mrs. Ant
- Black Power
- A is For Atom
- Inside Story: The Road To Terror (1989)
- 40 Minutes: The Kingdom of Fun (1989)
- An Ocean Apart - Episode One "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson" (1988)
- 40 Minutes: Bombay Hotel (1987)
- The Cost Of Treachery (1984)
- Italians: Mayor of Montemilone (1984)
- The Great British Housing Disaster (1984)
- The Tuesday Documentary: Trumpets and Typewriters (1983)
- Just Another Day: Walton on the Naze (1983)