The Filth and the Fury - A Sex Pistols Film
starring: Paul Cook, Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon, Glen Matlock
directed by: Julien Temple
directed by: Julien Temple
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780632202
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
ISBN: 0780632206
Label: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Manufacturer: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 9298
Studio: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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'Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?' sneers Johnny Rotten at the Sex Pistols' farewell performance. After seeing this picture you'll understand his disgust, but Julian Temple's sharp portrait of the ragged, raw band of working-class Brits won't leave you disappointed. The Sex Pistols left their legacy in a whirlwind 26-month reign, spitting out a caustic, confrontational brand of rock & roll that became the rallying cry for angry, disaffected youths in late 1970s England and defined the punk movement. Their story was first told two decades ago in the cynical The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, also directed by Temple but produced by the Sex Pistols' smarmy manager, Malcolm McLaren, who stage-managed the film into a self-promoting vanity project. For The Filth and the Fury, Temple turns to the four surviving band members to tell their own stories. His vibrant, vigorous direction captures the period of social unrest and alienated youth without turning into a history lesson, and shows the Pistols in all their insolent glory: spewing obscenities and gesturing lewdly to audiences and press alike, screaming out lyrics, overcoming musical limitations with pure passion and attitude. Rare, raw concert footage (including their final performance, which is appropriately enough the song 'No Fun') and previously unseen interviews with the deceased Sid Vicious further energize the portrait. There's even footage of the smiling band cutting cake for kids at a fundraiser with nary a nasty gesture or sneering comment. Now there's a side of the Pistols you don't see everyday.
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'Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?' sneers Johnny Rotten at the Sex Pistols' farewell performance. After seeing this picture you'll understand his disgust, but Julian Temple's sharp portrait of the ragged, raw band of working-class Brits won't leave you disappointed. The Sex Pistols left their legacy in a whirlwind 26-month reign, spitting out a caustic, confrontational brand of rock & roll that became the rallying cry for angry, disaffected youths in late 1970s England and defined the punk movement. Their story was first told two decades ago in the cynical The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, also directed by Temple but produced by the Sex Pistols' smarmy manager, Malcolm McLaren, who stage-managed the film into a self-promoting vanity project. For The Filth and the Fury, Temple turns to the four surviving band members to tell their own stories. His vibrant, vigorous direction captures the period of social unrest and alienated youth without turning into a history lesson, and shows the Pistols in all their insolent glory: spewing obscenities and gesturing lewdly to audiences and press alike, screaming out lyrics, overcoming musical limitations with pure passion and attitude. Rare, raw concert footage (including their final performance, which is appropriately enough the song 'No Fun') and previously unseen interviews with the deceased Sid Vicious further energize the portrait. There's even footage of the smiling band cutting cake for kids at a fundraiser with nary a nasty gesture or sneering comment. Now there's a side of the Pistols you don't see everyday. --Sean Axmaker
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- Stay away from drugs kiddies...A very personal, detailed look at The Sex Pistols... very sad and disturbing scene where Sid Vicious ... Read More
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- The Filth and the FuryCombining footage of the Pistols' legendarily ferocious and chaotic performances with revealing new interviews, ... Read More
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- The REAL StoryForget Julien Temple's "The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle," his previous Pistols film. That was almost purely fiction, ... Read More
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- The Filth And The FuryThis is a great story of strange time for a band that changed a lot of things in rock&roll. This is the story in their ... Read More
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- Nostalgia for sexy noise of the seventiesTo me, it is much more left to imagine than doco had shown already.
A useful work as still not so much to ... Read More
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