The Power
of Nightmares recently aired on the BBC
in the U.K. and was discussed widely in the media.
Here's what reviewers had to say about the series.
"You happily reserve your
questions until the final credits start rolling."
- THE TIMES ONLINE |
THE GUARDIAN: The Making
of a Terror Myth
"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."
by Andy Beckett
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THE TIMES ONLINE: Kept awake
by the politics of fear
"If The Power
of Nightmares had been drafted as a play,
it would be hailed as a dazzlingly thought-provoking
drama. As a book, its thesis would become a debating
point on talk shows round the world. Even in
the form of a here-are-the-facts documentary,
it is so artfully crafted, so engagingly argued,
so playfully illustrated, that you happily reserve
your questions and reservations until the final
credits start rolling."
by Joe Joseph
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"Nevertheless British producers
... are clearly not interested in even beginning
to dig for the truth."
- NATIONAL REVIEW |
NATIONAL REVIEW: The Power
of Bad Television
The Power of Nightmares would have us
believe that the international terrorist threat
is a myth concocted by governments and orchestrated
by a cabal of devious neoconservatives. ... Of
course, nothing in the murky world of intelligence
is ever straightforward. Nevertheless, British
producers, hooked on Chomskyite visions of "Amerika" as
the fount of all evil, are clearly not interested
in even beginning to dig for the truth.
by Clive Davis
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OFF THE TELLY: The Power
of Nightmares
"Thought-provoking and unconventional analysis about often the most melodramatic
and startling of ideas ended up sounding soothing and calming. It was almost
as if Curtis was leading viewers through a course of softly-spoken restorative
treatment, of wanting to cleanse his audience of all its mistaken and misleading
thoughts about the state of the world. Strong stuff, certainly provocative, but
closely argued and clearly explained. It was also undeniably watchable."
by Ian Jones
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"Millions of Americans deserve
to see the film as it offers a rigourously
documented and credible counter to the conventional
narrative of the 'war on terror' "
- AL JAZEERA |
AL JAZEERA.COM: The Power
of Nightmares: Fantasy of war on terror
"The Powers of Nightmares" explains "why this strange state of affairs has come
about and it argues that politicians have found in fear a way of restoring their
power. In a populist consumerist age where their authority and legitimacy has
declined dramatically, politicians have simply discovered in the "War on Terror" a
way of making themselves indispensable to their populations again by promising
to protect us from something that only they can see".
Millions of Americans deserve to see the film,
as it offers a rigorously documented and credible
counter to the conventional narrative of a "war
on terror."
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FULL REVIEW
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