THE FILTH AND THE FURY (2000)

Julien Temples’ documentary on the Sex Pistols “The Filth and the Fury” (2000) is an inspiring, clever, thoughful but at times bombastic documentary that really has its own sense of style The Filth and the Fury is a wonderful documentary extracting often painful rememberances from the Sex Pistols against a mismatched collage of image and sound with a punk style aesthetic. TV adverts are juxtaposed against 1950’s film footage with TV news riots and interesting graphics to create a portrait of the band. The interviews are simply silhouettes adding a haunting quality, allowing for profound insights, yet keeping the mystique of the band. The ways it eeks interesting interviews out of its protaganists and the full on magpie like collage of every source of footage available to create its meaning are really inspirational and techniques I feel need further investigation.