The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74542 Message #1301716
Posted By: GUEST,SueB
20-Oct-04 - 10:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: There is no terrorist threat
Subject: RE: BS: There is not terroist threat
Anybody in the UK going to watch The Power of Nightmares tonight? Anybody at all?
The guy who made this is apparently very reputable - here's another blurb from the Guardian article:
"So controversial is the tone of his series, that trailers for it were not broadcast last weekend because of the killing of Kenneth Bigley. At the BBC, Curtis freely admits, there are "anxieties". But there is also enthusiasm for the programmes, in part thanks to his reputation. Over the past dozen years, via similarly ambitious documentary series such as Pandora's Box, The Mayfair Set and The Century of the Self, Curtis has established himself as perhaps the most acclaimed maker of serious television programmes in Britain. His trademarks are long research, the revelatory use of archive footage, telling interviews, and smooth, insistent voiceovers concerned with the unnoticed deeper currents of recent history, narrated by Curtis himself in tones that combine traditional BBC authority with something more modern and sceptical: "I want to try to make people look at things they think they know about in a new way." "