Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
What:
Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Where:
Kino Dendy
Cinema Nova
When:
Opens September 20
Watch the Trailer:
here
Win:
We have 5 double passes to give away. And one of them comes with the soundtrack, a Clash singles CD and a book called Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge by Clinton Heylin. Email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘infected by American fame'
Julien Temple has a long career in music video, and directed the fascinating Sex Pistols doco, The Filth And The Fury, back in 2000. It used snippets of television, movies, and more to create a blistering media-wash of England's popular culture. Now he turns his attention to the life of Joe Strummer of The Clash.
Now in Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, the same techniques are used for a more personal effect: using clips from George Orwell adaptations and the criminally-underviewed If... to illustrate the inside of Strummer's head.
These stylistic choices sadly fade away we see as The Clash's success, and their political credibility become infected by American fame. And the film loses its way here too, infected by the same celebrity-excess. When (still piratey) Johnny Depp pops up as one of the film's talking heads, it's for no reason except that he's Johnny Depp.
Strummer doesn't have the large-scale electric drama of The Filth and The Fury. It's a smaller, warmer story of a man struggling with his passions for music, politics, and people.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Nostalgic
Keywords: Joe Strummer, The Clash, Documentary
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