Part two of SBS documentary series Liberal Rule will air tonight at 8:30pm.
Last weeks episode "Cycles of Power" was brilliant. It is inevitably being compared to the ABC's documentary The Howard Years, after the ABC withdrew SBS access to its archives (preferring to keep the archival material for its own project).
Creators of Liberal Rule, Nick Torrens and Frank Haines have said that the reneging on the agreement to access archival material has resulted in Liberal Rule being a much tighter, well-packaged piece than it might have been - and it is certainly well worth watching.
Comparatively though, I don't think any political documentary could beat the introduction of The Howard Years - it's quite simply some of the smartest editing you'll see - it encapsulates in less than one minute the relationship between Howard and Costello;
I remember seeing this for the first time and nearly jumping out of my chair at the sheer brilliance of it. It is certainly worthy of a fist-in-the-air and I'm not sure anything I've seen on Liberal Rule has come close to it.
Monday, July 27, 2009
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Agree, agree and agree. Watching that intro again, it virtually gives goosebumps! Just brilliant and a fantastic retrospective.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, gosh Peter Reith gave me the shits in that doco. He came across as such an unlovable asshole and arrogant ... all those awful stereotypes associated with political figures.