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Filth and the Fury, The
Fine Line Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for pervasive strong language, drugs and sexual content
Starring
Paul Cook,
Stephen Phillip Jones,
Steve Jones,
John Lydon,
Sid Vicious,
Malcolm McLaren,
Glen Matlock,
and
Nancy Spungen
An English documentary by Julien Temple which details the short but tempestuous life of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols from the perspective of the band members themselves, unlike the 20-year-old Temple film "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" which focuses instead on the perspective of Malcolm McLaren, the band's controversial manager.
| GENRE(S): |
Musical
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Julien Temple
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 10, 2000
Video: October 10, 2000
Theatrical: April 7, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |

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100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy.

100
Film.com
Peter Brunette
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.

90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A kickass documentary.
90
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
A big gob of fun.

90
Salon.com
Bill Wyman
A kinetic and unstoppable ride.

89
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
Anyone who can watch this film and deny that the Sex Pistols were one of the four or five most exciting and indelibly brilliant rock groups ever is pumping formaldehyde, not blood, through his veins.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
This time around, Julien Temple gets it right.

88
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
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
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
The concerts are hypnotic, the music is swell, and the entire package moves along at just the right pace.
88
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
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
Boston Globe
Jim Sullivan
This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
To see this film's footage from the '70s is to see the beginning of much of pop and fashion iconography for the next two decades.

85
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
There are only a handful of great music documentaries ... but Temple's film deserves a place in the canon.
80
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
Stays with you, though, not because of its political content, but because of the unexpected emotional punch that's thrown near the end.

80
TNT RoughCut
Don Kaye
The electrifying jolt that they gave to a moribund music scene, and British society in particular, is still riveting to watch.
80
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The filmmaker might be accused of preaching to the choir were the story not so compelling and the performances so strong.

80
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
The Sex Pistols themselves were bloody magnificent.

80
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Electrifying.

80
TV Guide
Ken Fox
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.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
Irritates in the early going when many of the current-day interviews are so intentionally underlighted that we can't see what the group members look like.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Efficiently and imaginatively directed.

75
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
An absorbing glimpse not only at the phenomenon of punk rock but also at British social history and the rock star mystique.
75
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
It's just as voyeuristically enjoyable as those VH-1 has-been bios but without the soft-focus star shots and with far more edge, energy and originality.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
James Sullivan
Above all, it makes one thing clear: This group was wickedly funny.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
A documentary that's as chaotic, rude and funny as the band could be.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The period ambience (call it funk) is irresistible, but the main points of interest here are sociological rather than musical.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A film as arresting and at times as frustrating as the Pistols themselves.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It's just twice as much as we need to know about the Sex Pistols.


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