About the film
The Filth and the Fury is the second movie Julien Temple made about The Sex Pistols. His first effort was The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, which was released at the tail end of punk rock’s first wave in the 1970s. This earlier effort 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 bandmembers themselves.
The title of the film is a reference to a headline that appeared in the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror after an interview on ITV’s Today presented by Bill Grundy. See EMI and the Grundy incident on the Sex Pistols main article. The title of The Daily Mirror article was itself inspired by William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury
Temple’s documentary charts the rise, decline and fall of the Sex Pistols from their humble beginnings in Shepherd’s Bush to their disintegration at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Temple puts the band into historical context with Britain’s 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.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the film was released in 2002. The two-disc set contains songs by the Sex Pistols as well as music from other artists that was used in the film.
Disc one
- “God Save the Queen (Symphony)”
- “Shang-A-Lang” – Bay City Rollers
- “Pictures of Lily – The Who
- “Virginia Plain” – Roxy Music
- “School’s Out” – Alice Cooper
- “Skinhead Moonstomp” – Symarip
- “Glass Of Champagne” – Sailor
- “Through My Eyes” – The Creation
- “The Jean Genie” – David Bowie
- “I’m Eighteen” – Alice Cooper
- “Submission”
- “Don’t Gimme No Lip Child”
- “What’cha Gonna Do About It”
- “Road Runner”
- “Substitute”
- “Seventeen
Disc two
- “Anarchy in the UK”
- “Pretty Vacant”
- “Did You No Wrong”
- “Liar”
- “EMI”
- “No Feelings”
- “I Wanna Be Me”
- “Way Over (In Dub)” – Tapper Zukie
- “Looking for a Kiss – New York Dolls
- “Holidays in the Sun”
- “No Fun
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