What would early punk be without its incestuous bickering? It was the initial refusal of Joe Strummer to allow a young Julien Temple into his inner circle in the mid-70s that first pushed the budding filmmaker towards the other great punk originators of the day, the Sex Pistols. That led to the creation of Temple's two seminal Pistols documentaries, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle (which John Lydon loudly denounced for getting everything wrong) and The Filth and the Fury (made with his involvement...
The people that came on like Bono, Scorsese,Jarmusch, Depp( who ,incidentally, talked as if he was Bogarting the Can that night), Strummer's ex-bandmates,etc. were interesting, touching, funny and sometimes didn't make sense.Although,when you look at the overall film ,the captions wouldn't have mattered anyway since the flow of the story Temple was telling about Joe was powerful enough to make its point lucid enough through the interviews, imagery and of course all that great music blasting through the theatre's speakers.
I would highly recommend this movie.
P.S. Mick Jones is one funny Mo' Fo' !
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RozDoss
I'm lost
September 2006
NOV 06, 2007 05:18 AM
I loved this movie. I barely go to the cinema, because movie pictures usually don't "talk" to me. I went to see this movie because I love the Clash and also for a personnal reason, I had something to check.
And I don't regret it, this movie is great. An awesome tribute to someone I miss.
erin_broadley
Los Angeles, CA
October 2006
NOV 05, 2007 06:00 AM