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Adam Curtis was born in Dartford in Kent, [4] and raised in nearby Platt. [5] His father was Martin Curtis (1917–2002), a cinematographer with a socialist background. [2] [6] Curtis won a county scholarship and attended the Sevenoaks School. It was there that an influential art teacher introduced him to the work of Robert Rauschenberg.
Adam Curtis is a British documentary filmmaker known for his critiques of modern society and politics. He has won four BAFTA awards and created acclaimed series such as The Power of Nightmares, Pandora's Box, and HyperNormalisation.
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Adam Curtis. The extraordinary films of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis. Can't Get You Out of My Head. HyperNormalisation. Adam Curtis: Bitter Lake. Pandora's Box. Modern Times.
Feb 23, 2021 · T he British filmmaker Adam Curtis may work for the BBC, a bastion of the British elite, but over a decades-long career, he has cemented himself as a cult favorite.. He is best known as the ...
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- 'The Century of the Self' (2002) IMDb: 8.8/10. "Although we feel we are free, in reality, we - like the politicians - have become the slaves of our own desires."
- 'The Power of Nightmares' (2004) IMDb: 8.7/10. The Power of Nightmares is Curtis's definitive statement on the Bush era and the War on Terror. Consisting of three episodes, this series studies the rise of the neoconservative movement in the United States and its ideological battle with Islamic extremism.
- 'Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone' (2022) IMDb: 8.6/10. Curtis's most recent project is a seven-hour series chronicling the collapse of the Soviet Union, the turbulent '90s that followed, and the rise to power of Vladimir Putin.
- 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' (2021) IMDb: 8.5/10. Can't Get You Out of My Head (subtitled An Emotional History of the Modern World) is one of Curtis's most ambitious projects, a sweeping account of what he sees as the primary forces that have shaped the modern world.
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Jan 28, 2021 · Covid-19 proved Adam Curtis’s point. When reports of the virus first broke, the British documentary maker was already assembling his new series for the BBC.
Oct 27, 2016 · Because Adam Curtis is a journalist, and because Donald Trump is the black hole toward which all journalistic light presently bends, a portion of Curtis’s new film concerns the Republican ...
