Synopsis
Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale--including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).
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Cast
- John LydonSelf
- Steve JonesSelf
- Paul CookSelf
- Glen MatlockSelf
- Sid ViciousSelf (archive footage)
- Malcolm McLarenSelf
- David BowieSelf (archive footage)
- Alice CooperSelf (archive footage)
- Stewart CopelandSelf (archive footage)
- Bryan FerrySelf (archive footage)
Recommandations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
A great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy. - 100
Film.com
Temple's wonderfully entertaining film brings the era back in all its confused and tentatively revolutionary glory, and bracingly demonstrates that the Pistols still have the power to shock. - 88
Chicago Tribune
The concerts are hypnotic, the music is swell, and the entire package moves along at just the right pace. - 88
New York Post
This bizarre, original and brilliantly crafted documentary about the Sex Pistols is funny and at times moving -- despite all the ugliness and stupidity it depicts. - 88
San Francisco Examiner
If nothing else, The Filth and the Fury is a searing, forceful, entertainingly biased reminder only that the English group mattered - as musicians and as anti-social curs. - 88
Boston Globe
This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement. - 80
The New York Times
Electrifying. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
This loud and exhilarating documentary from director Julien Temple brings it all back in a vitriolic spray of spite, spittle and raw rock and roll that still hits like a heart attack.
