Product: Filth to Fury [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
As accurate as it can get
Well no, I wasn't at the 100 Club that night either; I was far too young but nomatter when you got into the Pistols, this offering will be of interest to you. Documenting the rise and fall of the band, we flit from 1976 London to 1978 San Francisco in what seemed like no time.Contrasting with The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle, this punkumentary is told by the band members (including Sid) as opposed to McLaren. It would have been nice to have heard his reaction to the way Jones, Cook and expecially Lydon tell it but I suppose they would not have participated if McLaren was involved at all.You have to look past Temple's style of documentary: it appeared to be a 'yoof' orientated aural and visual assualt on the senses or maybe this is the 'punk' way of making documentaries. The silhouettes of the Pistols was annoying, I can see no real reason for it. And unless I'm mistaken, a lot of the dialogue was out of sync with the pictures; was this deliberate? Again, I see no reason for it to be.The above notwithstanding, I enjoyed this slice of punk. Poor Sid.