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  • Director: Julien Temple
  • AMG Rating: starstarstarstar
  • Genre: Music
  • Movie Type: Social History, Biography
  • Themes: Musician's Life, Drug Addiction
  • Main Cast: Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Country: US/UK
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Although their career lasted a bit less than two years, few rock bands have made a more dramatic impact than the Sex Pistols, who quickly rose to international infamy as the best-known British punk band, then fell apart shortly after their first American tour in a tempest of drugs, ego, and infighting. Manager Malcolm McLaren began making a film about the group while they were at the height of their fame, but by the time McLaren and director Julien Temple completed The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the group's best-known member, bassist Sid Vicious, was dead, and the remaining Pistols -- vocalist Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon), guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook, and original bassist Glen Matlock were in litigation against McLaren and refused to participate. In 1998, Temple began working with the group's surviving members (who reunited for a brief tour in 1996) for this definitive documentary of the Pistols' career, which combines new interviews with footage of legendary live performances (such as their infamous Jubilee Day show on a ship sailing past the Houses of Parliament), as well as newsreels of the chaos that followed in their wake, including the TV appearance that changed them overnight from a little-known cult band to national pariahs. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Paul Cook; Malcolm McLaren; Sid Vicious; John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon; Glen Matlock; Steve Jones

Credit

Julien Temple - Director, Niven Howie - Editor, Eric Gardner - Executive Producer, Jonathan Weisgal - Executive Producer, Anita Camarata - Producer, Amanda Temple - Producer, Paul Davies - Supervising Sound Editor

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The Filth and the Fury
Directed by Julien Temple
Produced by Anita Camarata
Amanda Temple
Starring John Lydon
Steve Jones
Glen Matlock
Paul Cook
Sid Vicious
Malcolm McLaren
Music by Sex Pistols
Release date(s) 20 January 2000
Running time 108 minutes
Language English

The Filth and the Fury is a 2000 rockumentary film about the Sex Pistols directed by Julien Temple.

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About the film

The Filth and the Fury is the second movie Julien Temple made about The Sex Pistols. His first effort was The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, which was released at the tail end of punk rock's first wave in the 1970s. This earlier effort was criticised for being too skewed towards the Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren's version of events about the band.[citation needed]The Filth and the Fury tells the story from the viewpoint of the bandmembers themselves (albeit in silhouette during their contemporary interviews).

The title of the film is a reference to a headline that appeared in the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror after an interview on ITV's Today presented by Bill Grundy. (See EMI and the Grundy incident on the Sex Pistols main article.) The title of The Daily Mirror article was itself inspired by William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury

Temple's documentary charts the rise, decline and fall of the Sex Pistols from their humble beginnings in Shepherd's Bush to their disintegration at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Temple puts the band into historical context with Britain's social situation in the 1970s through archival footage from the period. This film was seen in some ways as an opportunity for the Pistols to tell their side of the story, mostly through interviews with the surviving members of the group, footage shot during the era, and outtakes from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the film was released in 2002. The two-disc set contains songs by the Sex Pistols as well as music from other artists that was used in the film.

Disc one

  1. "God Save the Queen (Symphony)"
  2. "Shang-A-Lang" – Bay City Rollers
  3. "Pictures of Lily – The Who
  4. "Virginia Plain" – Roxy Music
  5. "School's Out" – Alice Cooper
  6. "Skinhead Moonstomp" – Symarip
  7. "Glass Of Champagne" – Sailor
  8. "Through My Eyes" – The Creation
  9. "The Jean Genie" – David Bowie
  10. "I'm Eighteen" – Alice Cooper
  11. "Submission"
  12. "Don't Gimme No Lip Child"
  13. "What'cha Gonna Do About It"
  14. "Road Runner"
  15. "Substitute"
  16. "Seventeen

Disc two

  1. "Anarchy in the UK"
  2. "Pretty Vacant"
  3. "Did You No Wrong"
  4. "Liar"
  5. "EMI"
  6. "No Feelings"
  7. "I Wanna Be Me"
  8. "Way Over (In Dub)" – Tapper Zukie
  9. "Looking for a Kiss – New York Dolls
  10. "Holidays in the Sun"
  11. "No Fun

See also

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Sex Pistols
Johnny Rotten • Steve Jones • Glen Matlock • Paul Cook
Sid Vicious
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