Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 5014138295981 Format: PAL Number Of Discs: 1 Region Code: 2 Theatrical Release Date: November 15, 2000 Sales Rank: 187539
Amazon.com essential video: "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
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Rating: - Stay away from drugs kiddies...
A very personal, detailed look at The Sex Pistols... very sad and disturbing scene where Sid Vicious uses heroin. A look at what we lost and what could have been.
Rating: - The Filth and the Fury
Combining footage of the Pistols' legendarily ferocious and chaotic performances with revealing new interviews, this exhilarating postmortem on one of the more offensive bands in rock history picks up ... Read More
Rating: - The REAL Story
Forget Julien Temple's "The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle," his previous Pistols film. That was almost purely fiction, created solely as an ego-stroke for Malcolm McLaren. This is the real story, told by the ... Read More
Rating: - The Filth And The Fury
This 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 own words with some great footage before everyone had video cameras and the internet. ... Read More
Rating: - Nostalgia for sexy noise of the seventies
To me, it is much more left to imagine than doco had shown already.
A useful work as still not so much to see of this scandalously famous band grasping the fame a generation ago.
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- Stay away from drugs kiddies...
- The Filth And The Fury