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Adam Curtis

February 2024

  • Steffan Rhodri in The Way speaking to a roomful of people

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Way; Breathtaking; Boarders; Joe Lycett vs Sewage – review

    Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis create a chaotic vision of Welsh revolution; ITV’s Covid three-parter favours realism over drama; and race, class and privilege collide in the BBC’s cracking new public school satire
  • Callum Scott Howells in The Way

    TV review
    The Way review – Michael Sheen’s thrilling new drama is like nothing else on TV

    The power and ambition of this Adam Curtis-directed, James Graham-written series about Welsh revolution is utterly innovative. It’s so fresh and different you have to take notice
  • Callum Scott Howells in The Way.

    ‘Destroying your home town is quite satisfying’: inside Michael Sheen’s explosive Welsh revolution thriller

    New TV series The Way sees Sheen team up with documentary legend Adam Curtis and Sherwood writer James Graham – to start a rebellion. The team talk dirt, destruction and civil war

May 2023

  • ‘Amazing good at getting laughs’ … Rantzen asking passers-by to taste bat soup in 1980; she was arrested later that day for wilful obstruction.

    ‘Esther, the singing dog won’t sing!’ Rantzen and team on the joy of That’s Life!

    It mixed performing pets and suggestive parsnips with bold exposés – and hooked 20m viewers. Fifty years after That’s Life! launched, its proud presenters recall their favourite moments

February 2023

  • A mural of Vladimir Lenin

    The Guardian view on the history of feelings: a serious subject

    Editorial: Books and documentaries can not only tell us what happened in the Soviet Union and why – but why it matters

October 2022

  • Paul Whitehouse as John Reith in The Love Box in Your Living Room.

    ‘Our whole show is complete bollocks!’ Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield on their BBC mockumentary

    Gloriously spoofing Downton, Peaky Blinders, Jackanory and much, much more, the comedy legends reveal all about their riotous sketch show for the Beeb’s centenary
  • Still from Russia 1985-1999 TraumaZone, an Adam Curtis documentary series

    TV review
    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis

    Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin
  • ‘A cataclysm tore apart the foundations of society’ … images from TraumaZone.

    ‘They are stealing Russia’: Adam Curtis on how hyper-capitalism wrecked a nation – and why Liz Truss must take heed

    In the 1990s, Russia embraced an extreme economics that led to chaos and corruption. Now, writes the maker of explosive new series TraumaZone, Liz Truss is taking Britain down the same toxic path

September 2022

  • Marina Hyde

    A new series immerses us in Russia’s 90s trauma – and the human cost of economic shock

    Marina Hyde
    Adam Curtis’s BBC project, TraumaZone, show us extraordinary events though the eyes of ordinary people, and how ideologues betrayed them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

January 2022

  • English National Opera 'The Valkyrie', London Coliseum, UK - 16 Nov 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jane Hobson/REX/Shutterstock (12610412i) English National Opera presents, in a co-production with Metropolitan Opera, New York, Wagner's "The Valkyrie" at the London Coliseum. This production is directed by Richard Jones, set and costume design by Stewart Laing, lighting design by Adam Silverman, movement direction by Sarah Fahie, with video design by Akhila Krishnan. The cast is: Matthew Rose (Wotan), Rachel Nicholls (Brunnhilde), Nicky Spence (Siegmund), Emma Bell (Sieglinde), Brindley Sherratt (Hunding), Susan Bickley (Fricka), Nadine Benjamin (Gerhilde), Mari Wyn Williams (Ortlinde), Kamilla Dunstan (Waltraute), Fleur Barron (Schwertleite), Jennifer Davis (Helmwige), Idunnu Münch (Siegrune), Claire Barnett Jones (Rossweisse), Katie Stevenson (Grimgerde). English National Opera 'The Valkyrie', London Coliseum, UK - 16 Nov 2021

    Culture Vulture
    The Guardian view on the six-hour show: the curious business of lengthy art

    Editorial: Size isn’t everything – great artworks are the length they need to be

November 2021

  • Illustration for Jon Ronson and Adam Curtis feature.

    Jon Ronson and Adam Curtis on the culture wars: ‘How has this happened? Where is the escape hatch?’

    As Ronson’s BBC podcast Things Fell Apart begins, the documentary-makers and old friends discuss conspiracy theories, the problem of ‘activist journalists’ and what happened to Ceaușescu’s socks

14 February 2021

  • Phil Field in Forensics: The Real CSI.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Forensics: The Real CSI; Soulmates; Can't Get You Out of My Head - review

  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    Anonymity is a shield for bigotry; if you don’t believe me, ask Schopenhauer

    Tim Adams

11 February 2021

  • Adam Curtis: Can’t Get You Out of My Head

    TV review
    Can’t Get You Out of My Head review – Adam Curtis's 'emotional history' is dazzling

    Examining the power structures and political intrigue that have shaped our world, the filmmaker’s new BBC documentary series is a dense, ambitious triumph

6 February 2021

  • Massive Attack.

    Adam Curtis edits the Guide
    Massive Attack: 'You resurrect ghosts when you bring something back from the past'

  • Can't Get You Out Of My Head.

    Adam Curtis edits the Guide
    From Tupac to Dom Cummings: meet the cast of characters in Adam Curtis's new series

  • The Guide Modern Toss Adam Curtis/6/2/21 INDIVIDUALISM

    Adam Curtis edits the Guide
    Modern Toss

  • Adam Curtis.

    Adam Curtis edits the Guide
    'You could be a cult leader': Diane Morgan and Adam Curtis on Brexit, Trump and his new series

July 2020

  • Hypernormalisation

    Wanted dead or archive: how film-makers repurpose old footage

    Werner Herzog did it with Grizzly Man, Adam McKay did it with Vice – from archival libraries to old film canisters from charity shops, the past is waiting to be brought to life

February 2019

  • ‘I felt that [with] Mezzanine, the procedure had to be ripped up, the rulebook had to be changed’: Robert del Naja, right, and Grant Marshall.

    Massive Attack: ‘I have total faith in the next generation’

    Twenty-one years since the release of Mezzanine, Massive Attack are taking it on tour – with added films. The band and their visuals director, Adam Curtis, tell us why
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