The Filth and the Fury

The Filth and the Fury is a 2000 British rockumentary film directed by Julien Temple. It focuses on the story of the punk rock pioneers Sex Pistols, and is considered a continuation of Temples first documentary centered on the band, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle.

The title of the film is a reference to a headline that appeared in the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror onDecember 1976 after an interview on ITVs Today presented by Bill Grundy. The title of The Daily Mirror article was itself inspired by William Faulkners novel The Sound and the Fury which was in turn taken from a line in Shakespeares Macbeth.Temples documentary charts the rise, decline and fall of the Sex Pistols from their humble beginnings in Londons Shepherds Bush to their disintegration at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Temple puts the band into historical context with Britains social situation in the 1970s through archival footage from the period. This film was seen in some ways as an opportunity for the Pistols to tell their side of the story, mostly through interviews with the surviving members of the group, footage shot during the era, and outtakes from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle. ........

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