Product: Filth to Fury [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
A Documentary.
Almost all documentaries about popular music are schlock. This one isn't. It's a movie about The Sex Pistols, a band from 1970s England that you may have heard of. If you haven't, they were a punk rock band that is famous mostly for being famous. Much has been written about them; most of it apocryphal. At least half of this movie is from an earlier film entitled The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980). It was a campy pseudo documentary. It was terrible by design. The Filth And The Fury is a fairly straightforward documentary by comparison. It's chock full of interviews with the surviving band members (some of which is recycled) and rare live footage. Even if you don't like this sort of music, you may still find this film entertaining.