The Filth and the Fury - A Sex Pistols Film

  

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780632202
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
ISBN: 0780632206
Label: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
MPN: TRNDN5086D
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: New Line Films / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Theatrical Release Date: 2000



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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A shocking portrait of the most notorious rock group of all time. It documents the story of the sex pistols charting their rise from the litter-stacked back-streets of 70s london through their crucifixion by the british tabloids canonization by hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/28/2005 Starring: Paul Cook Glen Matlock Run time: 103 minutes Rating: R Director: Julien Temple

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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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - THE best rockumentary EVER made
Not only is this filled with excellent footage of the band, but it's also a telling of the history and climate of the 1970s Britain at the time the band was coming up. I've watched this countless number of times, and I get something new from it each time.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Rotten Pistols
This is a very good overview of the Sex Pistols. While it is very good, it left me wanting to know more. This should have been a two hour film to be more complete.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - IRONICALLY BRILLIANT
I'm not going to write 10 paragraghs. I will keep it short/sweet. This movie was beautiful..... every Sex Pistols fan under the sun will LOVE it. These guys had hearts as big as their cheeky senses of humour. And that's where they all fooled us. The music speaks for itself---and one forgets how much you loved it. Sid and his GF Nancy.....were so much more pathetic/tragic than Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb's version EVER portrayed. And it makes you WISH the Pistols had stayed the Pistols. And that the movie would never end!!!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Band That Broke The Laws Of Physics...
"What you've seen in any documentary about any band before or since is how great and wonderful everything is. Its not the truth of it; its hell, its hard, its horrible, its enjoyable to a small degree, but if you know what you're doing it for, you'll tolerate all that. Because the work, at the end of the day, is what matters. We managed to offend all the people we were f***ing fed up with"

Thus intones one Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon) over a credit sequence which emulates the opening of the legendary film version of Oliver's "Richard III" - and Lydon knows of which he speaks because as the teenage front-man of "The Sex Pistols", probably the singularly most reviled and misunderstood band of all time, he certainly had it harder than most.

To my mind, there's no two ways about it - "The Sex Pistols" are THE band that broke a fundamental law of physics by literally creating something out of the nothing of economic, social and cultural poverty that was England in the mid-seventies. And in this film, which remains probably the best music documentary ever made (and my personal favourite of all time), you get to hear, in their own words, how they charted a notorious course from being four disparate, penniless teenagers hanging around a rubber-ware shop on the King's Road to being banned from playing in the UK and pursued around the US by the CIA and FBI because they were considered such a threat to the establishment.

Listening to Lydon, Cook, Jones, Matlock and Vicious (in absentia) recounting their tale in silhouette over a wealth of material cobbled together from the films "DOA" and "The Great Rock And Rock Swindle", as well as hours of never before seen archive footage, gives you a devastatingly honest insight into not only the times and circumstances that formed them, but also the morass of scumbags, groupies, hangers-on and imbeciles that populate the gristle-mill of the music industry to this day.

One gets the impression that Julien Temple, who previously directed the Malcolm MacLaren propaganda exercise, "The Great Rock And Roll Swindle", is almost undertaking an act of atonement with this film and he wisely chooses to forego overt directorial flourishes in favour of just letting the parties involved speak for themselves.

Alternately hysterically funny, genuinely touching and occasionally chilling (Vicious' final words to camera are haunting), as a film it is never anything less than fascinating. And as strange as it may sound, I personally find it to be one of the most energizing and positive pieces of cinema that I've ever seen. I watch my copy regularly and would recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone despairing at the state of their lives - because if four council estate kids with nothing but a shed-load of anger (which really `is' an energy, when properly channeled) can change the world in their own shambolic way, then you can learn a lot from their example, whatever your age.



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Filthy and Furious
The Sex Pistols were an incendiary band that burned out in a flash, but their impact is still felt today. Their history is presented here through interviews and archival footage, and the documentary is fittingly dirty and gritty considering its subject matter. In addition to the story, there are several almost complete songs performed live in various venues. This is a must watch for fans, as well as anyone else interested in one of the most influential and infamous bands of the punk movement.