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The Filth and the Fury

  • 20002000
  • RR
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
6K
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The Filth and the Fury (2000)
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A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
6K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
27,556
8,107
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    • Director
      • Julien Temple
    • Stars
      • Paul Cook
      • Steve Jones
      • John Lydon
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Julien Temple
    • Stars
      • Paul Cook
      • Steve Jones
      • John Lydon
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 67User reviews
    • 81Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 1 nomination

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    Steve Jones and John Lydon in The Filth and the Fury (2000)
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    Steve Jones, John Lydon, Sid Vicious, and Sex Pistols in The Filth and the Fury (2000)
    Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon, and Sex Pistols in The Filth and the Fury (2000)
    Steve Jones and Malcolm McLaren in The Filth and the Fury (2000)
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    The Filth and the Fury (2000)
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    Paul Cook
    • Self
    Steve Jones
    Steve Jones
    • Self
    John Lydon
    John Lydon
    • Self
    • (as Johnny Rotten)
    Glen Matlock
    Glen Matlock
    • Self
    Sid Vicious
    Sid Vicious
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm McLaren
    • Self
    David Bowie
    David Bowie
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Stewart Copeland
    Stewart Copeland
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Ronnie Corbett
    Ronnie Corbett
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Bryan Ferry
    Bryan Ferry
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Stephen Fisher
    • Self (Sex Pistols' lawyer)
    • (archive footage)
    Alice Fox
    • Woman in crowd
    • (voice)
    Bill Grundy
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Eric Hall
    Eric Hall
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Eric 'Monster' Hall)
    Benny Hill
    Benny Hill
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Billy Idol
    Billy Idol
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    David Johansen
    David Johansen
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • Director
      • Julien Temple
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    Storyline

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    • Quotes

      Bill Grundy: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms have all died...

      John Lydon: They're all heroes of ours, ain't they?

      Bill Grundy: Really... what? What were you saying, sir?

      John Lydon: They're wonderful people.

      Bill Grundy: Are they?

      John Lydon: Oh yes, they really turn us on.

      Steve Jones: But they're dead!

      Bill Grundy: Well, suppose they turn other people on?

      John Lydon: [under his breath] That's just their tough shit.

      Bill Grundy: It's what?

      John Lydon: Nothing, a rude word. Next question.

      Bill Grundy: No, no, what was the rude word?

      John Lydon: Shit.

      Bill Grundy: Was it really? Good heavens, you frighten me to death.

      John Lydon: Oh, alright, Siegfried...

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Beach/Snow Day/Holy Smoke (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      God Save The Queen
      (Symphony)

      Written by Paul Cook (as Cook) / Steve Jones (as Jones) / Glen Matlock (as Matlock) / John Lydon (as Lydon)

      Courtesy of Sex Pistols Residuals for North America

      Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd. for the rest of the World

    User reviews67

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    Top review
    9/10
    A tale told by no idiots, signifying plenty
    If nothing else, this is the only Sex Pistols film (there are now at least 3) to make explicit and in-depth reference to the band members' working class roots, and the way that experience informed their project. This alone makes the film worth seeing, as it explodes the myth, fostered no doubt by their PT Barnum manager, Malcolm McLaren, that the whole project was an exercise in cynical nihilism and money grubbing. As the band members tell it, nothing could have been further from the truth. I believe them.

    The film is cobbled together in large part from 2 previous Sex Pistols documentaries, "Rock 'n' Roll Swindle," (a McLaren project also directed, ironically enough, by F&F director Julie Temple) and "D.O.A," plus clips from BBS television and elsewhere that try to locate the Pistols in the political and social climate that spawned them. This effort, to give the Pistols a historical context, is by far the most valuable part of the film for those trying to understand how a bunch of working class stiffs, who could barely play their instruments, and who only released one album, could set off an explosion that reverberates in the music world--if increasingly faintly--even today.

    Best part of the film: footage from their last, secret gig at a palace in a working class district (they had been banned from appearing anywhere in England) before embarking on their ill-fated US tour. It consists of two performance on Christmas Day, benefiting the families of striking local firefighters, who had been out of work for many months. The attendees consist of the local lads and lasses, none of whom are "punk" in any apparent sense of the term.

    Before the Pistols performed, everyone eats Sex Pistols cake and ice cream; "Never Mind the Bollocks" shirts are stretched over the pubescent bodies of every bobby soxer. Then, after a thank you from the emcee, the Pistols launch into the searing "Bodies," its sarcastic refrain sung from the point of view of an aborted fetus ("I'm not an animal!/I'm an abortion..."). All the boppers dance like it's a sock hop, with the difference that everyone gleefully throws leftover desserts at one another. Steve Jones is shown playing guitar with his face covered in cake icing, beaming. In his reminiscence about the gig, Rotten grows wistful, saying it was easily their best memory as a band, and the last good one before it all fell apart.

    I never knew the guys were such sentimentalists.

    It's hard to believe that there once was a time when rock music could actually matter, when it was possible to actually escape the commodified rebellion that now sells Budweiser, Nike, and SUVs, when it was possible, however briefly to scare the pants of the political establishment. Young pop music lovers who swallow the meretricious rebellion of rap or grunge--whose self-important lyrics and idiotically monotonous rhythms make their authors rich off the weekly allowances of white middle class kids whose idea of rebellion is big loud subwoofers in the Corolla Daddy bought them for their 16th birthday--might profit from getting a glimpse of the Real Thing.

    The rest of us, who were lucky enough to have been there when history was made, and who can still recall the opening chords of "Anarchy in the UK" blasting all traces of "More Than a Feeling" and "Take It Easy" out of our speakers cabinets and into the first circle of music Hell where they always belonged, can enjoy the film for what it teaches us about the power of ordinary, thoroughly obnoxious people to make their own history, and ours.

    Another thing I learned from the film: if Tom Cruise were a junkie, he would look just like Sid Vicious.
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    • May 5, 2000

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 12, 2000 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • The Klock Worx (Japan)
      • Transformer (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La mugre y la furia
    • Production companies
      • FilmFour
      • Jersey Shore
      • Nitrate Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $612,192
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $13,305
      • Apr 2, 2000
    • Gross worldwide
      • $612,192
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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