The Mayfair Set (1999)
- Directed by
- Adam Curtis
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 4 episodes
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary series looks at four British businessmen from the 1960s and 1970s. It shows how their actions helped bring about the political and economic changes of the Thatcher era.
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What happens
The Mayfair Set, subtitled Four Stories about the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power, is a BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It explores the decline of Britain as a world power, the proliferation of asset stripping in the 1970s, and how buccaneer capitalists helped to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, by focusing on Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, Sir James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland—members of London's elite Clermont Club in the 1960s. It won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000. Curtis wanted to engage with the moral ambiguity of figures such as Goldsmith. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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