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"The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistol Film"
2000
Directed by Julien Temple

Pure punk rockers and pure marketing hype, The Sex Pistols were always a band defined by their contradictions and conflicts. Having given manager and self-promoter extraordinaire Malcolm McLaren his say in The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle, twenty years later director Julien Temple tells the Pistols' story from the band's point of view. All the members share their thoughts on the 2-year whirlwind that was the band's controversial career, but of course it is outspoken singer John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), who provides the most amusingly cynical quotes. Like The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle, this film is a sort of pop collage, cutting rapidly from contemporary interviews to performance clips to rarely seen archival material, including the sad yet hilarious sight of a drugged-out Sid Vicious unable to stay awake during an interview. Includes clips from the aborted feature, Who Killed Bambi?, directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert. 103 minutes.