The Filth and the Fury (2000) on Netflix
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The Sex Pistols' surviving members tell the band's story in their own words. Archival footage from the punk era runs alongside their accounts, from the group's London beginnings onward.
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The film is a second look at the Sex Pistols, following the band from its start in London's Shepherd's Bush through the punk years. Where an earlier documentary carried the manager's account of events, this one hands the story to the group's surviving members, who appear in silhouette in their interviews. Their testimony sits beside footage shot during the era, including live performances, rehearsal tapes and studio sessions, plus outtakes from the earlier film. Archival clips of Britain in the 1970s place the group in the social setting it came out of. The title comes from a tabloid headline written after a television interview.
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- Bill Grundyas Himself (archive footage)
- Alice Foxas Woman in crowd (voice)
- Eric Hallas Himself (as Eric 'Monster' Hall)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Filth and the Fury (2000)
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- The title refers to a headline in the British tabloid the Daily Mirror on 2 December 1976, after an interview on ITV's Today presented by Bill Grundy. That headline was itself inspired by William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, whose own title came from a line in Macbeth.
- Julien Temple had already made a Sex Pistols film, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, released in British cinemas on 15 May 1980 and criticized for being too skewed towards the band's manager Malcolm McLaren's version of events. This time the story is told by the band members themselves, in silhouette.
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