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Hi everyone, just seen on the Adam Curtis blog that he's working on "a new series of films for BBC2". This is very good news! Speculated subjects: the financial collapse, an ever-changing middle east, the politics of energy, the internet..... There are any number of interesting subjects yet to be Curtisified. The mouth waters.

A remake would be a great idea!

I saw this when it first came on TV and it altered my thinking. Curtis dismembers the 20th century self with surgical finesse. His selection and editing of archive material is a masterful appeal to the image hungry zip-edit generation, and is the perfect foil to a soaring yet penetrating polemic. All should watch.

Has anyone else noticed how the aristocracy lining up to meet the king looks a lot like the prisoners' line-up for the minister in A Clockwork Orange, the grunts lining up for the drill Sgt. in Full Metal Jacket, and the soldiers for the general in Paths of Glory. It's a striking motif.

That's a much better screenshot.

Seeing this with friends is one of the most entertaining film watching experiences you are ever likely to have.

Hilariously gaudy moments of melodrama, but completely brilliant film. Moral of the story: don't throw yourself at the fake altar of the phallus.

I disagree with the last poster, this a very entertaining film. It's the story of a man breaching the corridors of power, an exploding of a closed world and all its absurdities - or, better still, how friends are won and influenced. NB: I second Jake Mulligan's point bellow: erm, it should be changed.

There is nothing I want to see less.

Noé is a master stylist. Soaring yet fixated, the camera pushes the boundaries of the long cut into new realms of CGI motion-sickness and vertigo; the film is a neon-fetish up yours to desaturated 3D cinema, that develops a genuinely new aesthetic of its own. It falls short with emotional engagement however, and the characters flap melodramatically in the psychedelic winds.

Best fist fight ever?

No other film has made me cry so quickly. What a whirlwind of invention and emotion. Pure, resplendent cinema.