The Filth and the Fury (2000)
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
Sombre, steady, measured documentary / music, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale--including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).
Our read · The Filth and the Fury (2000) (2000) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive documentary · music · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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“You want the Pistols' own account of punk explosion and self destruction.”
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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