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Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:45 pm
by seremtan
trailer:



full movie on iPlayer (UK only):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... itter-lake

inevitable Youtube upload (minus last 20 minutes for some reason):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-KWLK1wGmg

great doc, even more experimental than his usual efforts, about how we went from supporting the Saudis in return for oil, to ISIS and the recent clusterfuck in Afghanistan - a consequence of short-sightedness and fantasy politics. well worth 2 hours of your life

(the scene where someone attempts to explain conceptual art to a group of Afghan women via the example of Duchamps' Urinal is especially surreal, and kind of sums up the absurdity of the whole Western effort in Afghanistan)

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:52 am
by Transient
The full version without the last 20 cut off can be found here. I was skeptical at first, but if you can get past the first 15 minutes or so, it's a decent film.

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:32 am
by MKJ
seremtan wrote:
full movie on iPlayer (UK only
fuck u...

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:26 pm
by PhoeniX
Looks to be available on torrents. As someone whose TV license fee helped pay for its production feel free to download it on me :up:.

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:53 pm
by Whiskey 7
Transient wrote:The full version without the last 20 cut off can be found here. I was skeptical at first, but if you can get past the first 15 minutes or so, it's a decent film.

Thank you Transient. It is a quiet day today, might just watch it through.

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:40 pm
by seremtan
it's pretty trippy. Curtis's usual MO is to talk over a continuous montage of often unrelated footage; in this the voiceovers are like little islands of narrative separated by long sections of pure montage with a spooky music accompaniment

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:39 am
by fKd
Great viewing, cheers

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:04 am
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
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seremtan wrote:it's pretty trippy. Curtis's usual MO is to talk over a continuous montage of often unrelated footage; in this the voiceovers are like little islands of narrative separated by long sections of pure montage with a spooky music accompaniment

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:32 pm
by Ryoki
Ah yes. Read about this, will look for a decent torrent... cheers :up:

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:36 pm
by scared?
Is this the one where he says we are all paranoid like Nixon now?...

Re: Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:29 pm
by seremtan
no, dumbass, it's new