The Filth and the Fury – 2000

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Size: 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm)



An original British Quad poster for the 2000 release of the Sex Pistols documentary “The Filth and the Fury”

The Filth and the Fury is the second movie Julien Temple made about The Sex Pistols. His first movie was The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, which was released in British cinemas on 15 May 1980. This earlier movie was criticised for being too skewed towards the Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren's version of events about the band. The Filth and the Fury tells the story from the viewpoint of the band members themselves.

The title of the film is a reference to a headline that appeared in the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror on 2 December 1976 after an interview on ITV's Today presented by Bill Grundy. The title of The Daily Mirror article was itself inspired by William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury which was in turn taken from a line in Macbeth.

Temple's documentary narrates the rise, decline and fall of the Sex Pistols from their humble beginnings in London's Shepherd's Bush to their disintegration at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

“A Sex Pistols film - uncut, unseen, unbelievable.”

Tags: 2000s Quad British Drama Documentary Music