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‘Punk Saved Him’: Julien Temple on His Shane MacGowan Doc ‘Crock of Gold’

‘Punk Saved Him’: Julien Temple on His Shane MacGowan Doc ‘Crock of Gold’
Julien Temple had never considered making a documentary about Shane MacGowan, the sensational, shambolic former Pogues frontman, until MacGowan himself asked him to do it. The pair had met in the mid-Seventies when MacGowan was just another punk pogoing at the Sex Pistols’ early shows, and they have remained friendly in the decades since. The director, whose credits include the yin-yang Sex Pistols films The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury, as well as pics about the Clash, Keith Richards, and the Kinks’ Davies brothers,
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‘Crock of Gold’ Review: The Eternal Lost Weekend of Shane MacGowan

‘Crock of Gold’ Review: The Eternal Lost Weekend of Shane MacGowan
Shane MacGowan does not look well. Then again, the former lead singer of the Pogues and one of our greatest living songwriters has not looked well for quite some time. The notion that he’s permanently, tipsily teetering on the edge of this mortal coil has been a part of MacGowan’s legacy for decades; with the exception of Keith Richards, no rock star has defied the odds of an early demise while indulging in drink, drugs and an appetite for self-destruction that would destroy mere mortals. And even when
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Johnny Depp, Julien Temple to Produce Documentary About Pogues Lead Singer Shane MacGowan

Johnny Depp, Julien Temple to Produce Documentary About Pogues Lead Singer Shane MacGowan
Johnny Depp has signed on as a producer for a feature documentary called “Shane” about the lead singer of punk band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan. The news was announced Wednesday by HanWay Films, which acquired the worldwide sales rights.

Julien Temple, director of “Glastonbury,” “The Filth and the Fury” and “London: The Modern Babylon,” is directing the documentary that examines MacGowan and his ability to write lyrics to hits like “Fairytale of New York” that captured Ireland’s spirit while he was on his very own personal voyage into the heart of darkness.

Temple will produce through Nitrate Film together with Depp and Stephen Deuters (“Minamata”) through Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil and Stephen Malit. HanWay Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and will introduce the project at the upcoming European Film Market, where the company will screen footage for the first time. Altitude Films will distribute the film in the U.
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Competition: Win ‘The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead’ on DVD

To celebrate the release of The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead – available on Digital Download 22nd May and Blu-ray/DVD 29th May – we are giving away a DVD courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.

A rip-roaring, hellraising account of one of the first and greatest punk bands, The Damned, who ripped up the 70s music scene, fell apart in chaos, reformed and are still touring today 40 years strong! This joins Lemmy, The Filth and the Fury and Anvil as a gleefully riotous, must watch rock-doc!

From the co-director of Lemmy, featuring Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, Lemmy, and members of Pink Floyd, Black Flag, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Sex Pistols, Fugazi, Blondie, The Buzzcocks and many more!

Pre-order today: po.st/DocBeDamned

To win The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead on DVD, just answer the following question:

How many studio albums have The Damned released
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Giveaway – Win The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead

To celebrate the release of The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead – available on Digital Download 22nd May and Blu-ray/DVD 29th May – we are giving away a DVD courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.

A rip-roaring, hellraising account of one of the first and greatest punk bands, The Damned, who ripped up the 70s music scene, fell apart in chaos, reformed and are still touring today 40 years strong! This joins Lemmy, The Filth and the Fury and Anvil as a gleefully riotous, must watch rock-doc!

From the co-director of Lemmy, featuring Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, Lemmy, and members of Pink Floyd, Black Flag, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Sex Pistols, Fugazi, Blondie, The Buzzcocks and many more!

Order now via Amazon.

The competition closes at midnight on Sunday, June 4th. UK readers only please. To enter, use one of the following methods…

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This competition is promoted by Fetch FM.
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Bunch of Kunst Review

Author: Greg Wetherall

Since emerging out of the industrial fog of Nottingham in the late noughties, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn – aka Sleaford Mods – have charted an unlikely ascent. With rudimentary electronic soundscapes and blistering invectives, they have filled a void articulating the frustrations of the working class man and woman in Ukip heartland.

Now they are the subject of a documentary by erstwhile German music journalist Christine Franz in her debut film. The good news is that not only is Bunch of Kunst compelling in a gloriously roughshod, rambling fashion; it feels alive; bristling with energy and anger. Perceived as something of a cult concern, arched eyebrows greet the opening litany of glowing testaments from unlikely, high profile musical admirers.

From there, Franz consciously cuts back to the inauspicious, dingy rehearsal dens that remain the nexus for their work. Williamson wrestles with a chorus line and makes amendments to his lyrics,
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They're Both Right: Oasis Doc Director Talks Liam and Noel

They're Both Right: Oasis Doc Director Talks Liam and Noel
Even in the aftermath of an acrimonious breakup, the biggest British rock band since the Beatles check yet another box off in the legendary band to-do list with Oasis: Supersonic. The new documentary, now playing in a limited run in U.S. theaters, is every bit as worthy as some of the greatest rock docs of all time, from Julien Temple's Sex Pistols chronicle The Filth and the Fury to Joe Berlinger and the late Bruce Sinofsky's epic Metallica examination, Some Kind of Monster.

Focused solely on the meteoric rise that saw the scrappy Manchester disciples of Lennon-McCartney, Stone Roses, and the Smiths go from pubs to a pair of historic concerts at Knebworth that saw one in twenty (!) British citizens apply for tickets, Supersonic is as kinetic, transcendental and combustive as the two brothers at the band's center.

The charm and bravado of impossibly charismatic frontman Liam
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Julien Temple to direct 'Ibiza - The Silent Movie'

Music documentary will mark the first feature for production company Whizz Kidd.

Indie TV production outfit Whizz Kidd Entertainemnt is working with Essential Arts Entertainment and Nitrate Film on the Ibiza - The Silent Movie, which is set to be released in 2017.

The film will provide a “compelling audiovisual journey into Ibiza’s bohemian soul”, featuring original material documenting the island’s club scene alongside unseen archive material.

Whizz Kid is in conversations with an undisclosed music label and a terrestrial television broadcaster about partnering on the project, which will have its own soundtrack.

Ibiza - The Silent Movie will be executive produced by Whizz Kid chief executive Malcolm Gerrie and agent David Levy. Essential Arts Entertainment’s Richard Conway and Andrew Curtis are the producers.

“It’s long been my dream to tell the real story of this magical island and I can’t think of a better person to realise that vision than Julien Temple,” Gerrie
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Whizz Kid plans first feature film

Whizz Kid plans first feature film
Music Documentary Ibiza - The Silent Movie will be directed by punk filmmaker Julien Temple.

Indie TV production outfit Whizz Kidd Entertainemnt is working with Essential Arts Entertainment and Nitrate Film on the Ibiza - The Silent Movie, which is set to be released in 2017.

The film will provide a “compelling audiovisual journey into Ibiza’s bohemian soul”, featuring original material documenting the island’s club scene alongside unseen archive material.

Whizz Kid is in conversations with an undisclosed music label and a terrestrial television broadcaster about partnering on the project, which will have its own soundtrack.

Ibiza - The Silent Movie will be executive produced by Whizz Kid chief executive Malcolm Gerrie and agent David Levy. Essential Arts Entertainment’s Richard Conway and Andrew Curtis are the producers.

“It’s long been my dream to tell the real story of this magical island and I can’t think of a better person to realise that vision
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The Jam About The Young Idea review: Surrender to a fine rock documentary

The Jam About The Young Idea review: Surrender to a fine rock documentary
"Don't have to explain myself to you / I don't give two f**ks about your review" said Paul Weller with The Jam on 'The Modern World' back in 1977, so I don't think he'll be all that bothered by what I say about his band or this documentary.

He doesn't have to worry either way. Screened in the city ahead of its broadcast on Sky Arts next week, The Jam: About The Young Idea is a fine documentary that can reel in movie fans who hadn't necessarily surrendered to the beat of Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler before.

Riding on the back of a new photo exhibition of the band, the film is directed with economy and style by Bob Smeaton, one of the men behind the remarkable Beatles Anthology series from the mid-1990s.

About The Young Idea mixes up archive live footage, new conversations with the band and
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Julien Temple on 'Lost' Pistols Film, Punk Docs & Joe Strummer's Socks

Julien Temple on 'Lost' Pistols Film, Punk Docs & Joe Strummer's Socks
Johnny Rotten grabs the microphone and lurches forward, his pimply face grinning into the camera. Next to him, Steve Jones is miming (or mocking) guitar-hero moves, while Sid Vicious hunches over his bass, surly as ever. The grainy footage carbon-dates to the tail end of 1977, right before the band was about to embark on their notorious U.S. tour and then implode. It's Christmas Day in the Northern city of Huddersfield, and will turn out to be the penultimate U.K. performance for the seminal punk band. They launch into
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10 best music documentaries: Bob Dylan, Madonna, Radiohead, more

10 best music documentaries: Bob Dylan, Madonna, Radiohead, more
Asif Kapadia's breathtaking documentary Amy is already wowing critics and fans, so its official release this week makes it a good a time to be reminded of some other great music documentaries.

There's David Byrne's giant suit and Bob Dylan's oversize shades. Two films from Martin Scorsese but just one from Julien Temple. Punk rockers and pop superstars. We count through ten leading music documentaries below.

10. The Filth and The Fury (2000)

Julien Temple's first Sex Pistols film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren's make-it-up-as-you-go-along take on things. Twenty years on the same director gave the group the right to reply, including Sid Vicious with some beyond-the-grave archive footage.

9. In Bed with Madonna (1991)

Known as Madonna: Truth or Dare in the Us, this absurdly naughty chronicle of the Queen of Pop's infamous 'Blond Ambition' tour is arguably her greatest on-screen moment. Bitchiness, bottle-fellating
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Punk On Film Season Coming To Cork City

Punk On Film at Triskel Christchurch 19- 22 July is a film season celebrating the legacy of the seminal punk movement that epitomises late 70’s Britain. The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead is a programme highlight with director Wes Orshoski at Triskel on Tuesday 21 July to introduce the screening. The Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and The Fury, the 1977 film Punk In London and Rude Boy, the part fiction – part rockumentary film about The Clash, are also part of the season. “I’m really honored to be bringing The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead to Cork, and to the Triskel,” says New York based filmmaker Wes Orshoski. “This screening will happen in the middle of a bucket-list tour of Ireland for me, and I can’t wait to meet some punk fans in Cork and trade stories. Any and all U2 stories are welcome!” The
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Interview: Badasss Winner Julien Temple at 2015 Chicago CIMMfest

Chicago – In receiving the official Badasss Award at the 2015 Chicago International Movies & Music Fest (CIMMFest), legendary rock documentary maker Julien Temple simply said, “Badass is not a phrase we use in England. I’ve never been called a badass, I prefer ‘enfant terriblé,’ with a hope toward ‘monstre sacré.’”

And so it goes with one of the most prolific and influential rock documentarians in cinema history, with the whole evolution of the music form contained in his associations with The Kinks, the Clash (through Joe Strummer), the Rolling Stones and the Sex Pistols. What began as a student obsession with the discovery of the Sex Pistols in the 1970s, fueled a lifelong pursuit of rock documentary truth, feature film adventure and music video stylings. Julien Temple has provided the sights and the sounds.

Julien Temple (center), with CIMMFest officials Gary Kuzminski and Shannon Flynn, April 18, 2015

Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.
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Julien Temple's Wilko Johnson doc finds sales home

  • 08 February 2015
  • by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
  • ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Moviehouse boards The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson.

UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has boarded international rights to Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury) documentary The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson.

The Essential Arts/Nitrate Film Production doc, from producers Richard Conway and Andrew Curtis, follows the remarkable story of acclaimed musician Wilko Johnson who was told he only had months to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but staged a remarkable recovery while still managing to tour.

The film is in the latter stages of post-production and will premiere at SXSW this March.

Director Temple said: “I was astonished by Wilko on Oil City Confidential when I realised the depth of his eccentricity and wisdom and wanted to celebrate the inspirational way he dealt with his death sentence, and in the end he confounded us all.”

Mark Vennis of Moviehouse added: “We are delighted and excited to bring this unique and cinematic story to the
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Anarchy in Huddersfield: the day the Sex Pistols played Santa

Never Mind the Baubles features footage of benefit gig – and final UK show – band played for children of striking firefighters

Johnny Rotten handed out badges, posters and other Sex Pistols-branded goodies. Teens and young children hit the dancefloor with Sid Vicious to boogie to pop hits such as Baccara's Yes Sir, I Can Boogie and (yes, really) Daddy Cool by Boney M. Then Rotten leapt into a giant Christmas cake and the band and audience smeared each other with food.

The Sex Pistols' last UK gig – a benefit for the children of striking firefighters at Ivanhoe's nightclub in Huddersfield on Christmas Day 1977 – remains their most implausible. However, almost 36 years to the day later, this surreal milestone is landing on our screens via Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 With the Pistols, to be shown on BBC4 on Boxing Day at 10pm.

"It's footage I filmed on a big old crappy U-matic low-band camera,
See full article at The Guardian - Film News »

Anarchy in Huddersfield: the day the Sex Pistols played Santa

Never Mind the Baubles features footage of benefit gig – and final UK show – band played for children of striking firefighters

Johnny Rotten handed out badges, posters and other Sex Pistols-branded goodies. Teens and young children hit the dancefloor with Sid Vicious to boogie to pop hits such as Baccara's Yes Sir, I Can Boogie and (yes, really) Daddy Cool by Boney M. Then Rotten leapt into a giant Christmas cake and the band and audience smeared each other with food.

The Sex Pistols' last UK gig – a benefit for the children of striking firefighters at Ivanhoe's nightclub in Huddersfield on Christmas Day 1977 – remains their most implausible. However, almost 36 years to the day later, this surreal milestone is landing on our screens via Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 With the Pistols, to be shown on BBC4 on Boxing Day at 10pm.

"It's footage I filmed on a big old crappy U-matic low-band camera,
See full article at The Guardian - TV News »

Jesse L. Martin is Marvin Gaye in New Biopic

The Hollywood Reporter says that Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order, Rent) will star as Marvin Gaye in the new Biopic Sexual Healing, replacing Lenny Kravitz.

Martin was originally set to play the singer in 2008, in a version produced by James Gandolfini but the project never happened. Kravitz signed on for the lead role in November but after Gaye’s son Marvin Gaye III voiced objections about the subject matter of the film, which revolved primarily around Gaye’s battle with addiction and depression in the 1980′s, the project shifted. The film will now begin with Gaye’s attempt to get his career back together and a big supporting role seems to be that of music promoter Freddy Cousaert, played by Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges, Harry Potter films).

Martin is an accomplished actor of theatre, musical theatre and film. He has a great voice and he’s a more qualified choice
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Lenny Kravitz to play Marvin Gaye

Musician turned actor Lenny Kravitz is set to play Motown soul legend Marvin Gaye in a forthcoming biopic. According to Deadline the film will centre on Gaye's life in London in the early 1980s and his struggle against addiction, as well as his attempts to get his career back on track with the help of British music promoter Freddy Cousaert prior to his untimely death in 1984 when he was shot by his own father.

There have been a number of previous Marvin Gaye projects in the pipeline which are still yet to be completed such as Marvin, which was set to be directed by F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job), as well as the James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) produced Sexual Healing, which was set to star former Law & Order actor Jesse L. Martin.

Kravitz has been enjoying a successful run of film roles, with appearances in Precious and The Hunger Games
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Casting Net: Lenny Kravitz to play Marvin Gaye. Plus: Amy Smart, Terry Crews, Kellan Lutz

Casting Net: Lenny Kravitz to play Marvin Gaye. Plus: Amy Smart, Terry Crews, Kellan Lutz
• Rock musician Lenny Kravitz (The Hunger Games, Precious) will get it on as celebrated singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye in an untitled biopic about the final years of the musician’s life, when he moved to Europe to overcome his substance abuse and ended up penning one of his most indelible hits, “Sexual Healing.” Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury) will direct. [Evening Standard/Deadline]

• Amy Smart, Terry Crews, Eddie Cibrian, and Nia Long have all signed up for Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club, Lionsgate announced Monday. Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids) and William Levy (of Dancing With the Stars fame) costar in a
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