Catching up on Curtis

Apparently Adam Curtis is working on a new doco about Afghanistan which might explain the series of fascinating articles he's been posting on his excellent blog. Anyways I loved Power of Nightmares, Century of Self and The Trap so thought it might be interesting to watch some of his earlier works that I missed.

First up is The Mayfair Set , aired in 1999, it's a four parter about a group of chaps/cnuts who shaped our country during those lovely Thatcher years including David Stirling founder of the SAS turned mercenary, Jim Slater asset stripper extraordinaire and Jimmy Goldsmith douchebag. Curtis carefully exposes the roles these men played in "enhancing" our capitalist culture while simultaneously filling their pockets and the final episode shows how these men were eventually discarded by the establishment but their theories, strategies and greed continued. Peppered with his usual melange of interviews, stock footage & news clips this is a fine example of Curtis' work and it appears you can watch it on Youtube here