A ri Aster’s new movie, Eddington , pits Joaquin Phoenix against Pedro Pascal as men with conflicting takes on how to get their small town through the crisis of Covid. It’s also a film about the contemporary political crisis in the US and the influence of technology on our lives.

Adam Curtis ’s latest documentary series, Shifty, covers similar themes but through the lens of British life in the Thatcher years of the late 1970s to early 1990s. This era, he argues, put in place a substantial shift in power away from the individual and the nation state, changes that are still playing out today. Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war Read more

Earlier this summer, the two men met in London to discuss the thinking behind their work,

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