The Sex Pistols were a mythical band. Steve Jones couldn’t play guitar. Johnny Rotten couldn’t sing. Sid Vicious couldn’t always stand upright, much less keep his spiky hair on end. Malcom McLaren couldn’t manage. With Glen Matlock and Paul Cook rounding out the band, the personnel are just the stencils for McLaren’s silk screen. Danny Boyle’s Pistol, coming to FX on Hulu, perpetuates the mythology. This is probably part of the reason John Lydon didn’t sign off on the project. He likes to keep his public image limited. It also might be a little melodramatic for the former Sex Pistols frontman. That works for TV more than it does for punks.
Based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, the six-episode miniseries tells the story of the forgotten generation of London’s punk culture through the eyes of their most fabricated spokespeople: The Sex Pistols,...
Based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, the six-episode miniseries tells the story of the forgotten generation of London’s punk culture through the eyes of their most fabricated spokespeople: The Sex Pistols,...
- 5/30/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
46 years ago, a then historic heatwave gripped Europe. Out of the dying embers, 2 of the most incendiary moments in popular music history took place; the Bill Grundy interview of 1976, in which English punk rock outfit Sex Pistols executed a nihilistic verbal barrage aimed in the general direction of a drab post-war society in the grip of rising unemployment, was greeted by the tweed-clad public with shock and disdain. Their May 1977 single ‘God Save the Queen’ was greeted with almost existential dread.
Continue reading ‘Pistol’ Trailer: Danny Boyle Brings The Filth And Fury To The Small Screen at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Pistol’ Trailer: Danny Boyle Brings The Filth And Fury To The Small Screen at The Playlist.
- 5/5/2022
- by Matthew McMillan
- The Playlist
Summer 2021 is the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest concerts in British music history: Oasis at Knebworth. The two-day event saw 250,000 mad-for-it fans of Liam and Noel Gallagher swarm the grounds of a country house in southern England for a murderer’s row of Britpop heavyweights. No performers stood taller that day than the headliners, the brash, Beatles-meets-Sex-Pistols from Manchester. For a brief period of time, Oasis was the biggest rock band in the world. None of this––literally none––would have happened had it not been for a sarcastic, caustic, hedonistic and drug-fueled Scotsman named Alan McGee. As his biopic Creation Stories opens he is introduced as a “music industry kingpin, guru, and former head of Creation Records.”
That is all true, though as a title card reads, “Most of this happened. Some of the names have been changed… to protect the guilty.” One’s interest in the...
That is all true, though as a title card reads, “Most of this happened. Some of the names have been changed… to protect the guilty.” One’s interest in the...
- 6/17/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Ten years ago, the members of Odd Future wore balaclavas with sharpied inverted crosses on them for an appearance on network television. Tyler, the Creator was 19 years old, Hodgy Beats about 16 months older, and Earl Sweatshirt was still sequestered in Samoa. They took the soundstage of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on February 16th, 2011 — backed by three members of the Roots and a girl dressed in full Ring make-up — and begrudgingly censored the many indecencies that appear in their early deep-cut “Sandwitches.” (“Not Dom, but if I was a Dahm...
- 2/16/2021
- by Luke Winkie
- Rollingstone.com
Footwear brand Dr. Martens is teaming up with the Sex Pistols on a new collection that pays tribute to the band’s notorious TV interview that helped put punk on the map.
The Dr. Martens x The Sex Pistols collection features two of the brand’s most iconic silhouettes, re-imagined with graphics and motifs inspired by the Pistols’ infamous 1976 interview in London, where they premiered the music video for their debut single, “Anarchy in the U.K.,” before launching into a profanity-laced tirade on-air.
The moment, captured in front of...
The Dr. Martens x The Sex Pistols collection features two of the brand’s most iconic silhouettes, re-imagined with graphics and motifs inspired by the Pistols’ infamous 1976 interview in London, where they premiered the music video for their debut single, “Anarchy in the U.K.,” before launching into a profanity-laced tirade on-air.
The moment, captured in front of...
- 4/14/2020
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
The new Sex Pistols film-in-the-making, news of which has punks young and old abuzz, has a name: “Only Anarchists Are Pretty.” The writer and producer of the project tell Variety that they are setting about getting the picture financed ahead of casting their Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten et al.
Producer Ayesha Plunkett is making the film through her recently formed Starlight banner. She said reports that it will be a straight-up biopic are wide of the mark. “It’s not a biopic. I’m not interested in doing that,” she said. “It’s a feature film, a script written from a book I liked by Mick O’Shea.”
O’Shea’s “The Early Days of the Sex Pistols: Only Anarchists Are Pretty” was published in 2004, and he wrote the screenplay, with input from Plunkett. As was the case with the book, it fictionalizes the events of the day, while sticking...
Producer Ayesha Plunkett is making the film through her recently formed Starlight banner. She said reports that it will be a straight-up biopic are wide of the mark. “It’s not a biopic. I’m not interested in doing that,” she said. “It’s a feature film, a script written from a book I liked by Mick O’Shea.”
O’Shea’s “The Early Days of the Sex Pistols: Only Anarchists Are Pretty” was published in 2004, and he wrote the screenplay, with input from Plunkett. As was the case with the book, it fictionalizes the events of the day, while sticking...
- 3/29/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Over the last year or so, you could go to the movies and/or turn on your TV, and see feature-length docs on Grace Jones, the Tragically Hip, Lady Gaga, Elvis (both an original-recipe cradle-to-grave portrait and an extra-crispy dive into how his decline reflects our current national mindset), Eric Clapton, the Avett Brothers, Deer Tick, Ed Sheeran, music mogul Clive Davis, a semi-obscure free-jazz drummer, a multi-chapter series on hip-hop, two Peal Jam shows at Wrigley Field, not one but two Whitney Houston postmortems and a two-part look at...
- 10/2/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Late summer is all about reflection over at The Criterion Collection, as the library is spending August offering up a handful of unsung classics and new look at some longtime favorites.
Michael Curitz’s “The Breaking Point,” a mostly overlooked Hemingway adaptation, starring John Garfield and Patricia Neal, will be available on Blu-ray for the first time, while Sacha Guitry’s “La poison” arrives on home video for the first time ever. Elsewhere, Mike Leigh’s revelatory “Meantime” is getting a 2K restoration, all the better to enjoy the early work of Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. That’s not all for Oldman fans, however, as Alex Cox’s “Sid & Nancy” hits the collection with a brand new 4K digital restoration. Finally, Walter Matthau stars in the charming comedy “Hopscotch,” also available on Blu-ray in a 2K digital restoration.
Below is the complete list of August additions, with descriptions provided by Criterion.
Michael Curitz’s “The Breaking Point,” a mostly overlooked Hemingway adaptation, starring John Garfield and Patricia Neal, will be available on Blu-ray for the first time, while Sacha Guitry’s “La poison” arrives on home video for the first time ever. Elsewhere, Mike Leigh’s revelatory “Meantime” is getting a 2K restoration, all the better to enjoy the early work of Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. That’s not all for Oldman fans, however, as Alex Cox’s “Sid & Nancy” hits the collection with a brand new 4K digital restoration. Finally, Walter Matthau stars in the charming comedy “Hopscotch,” also available on Blu-ray in a 2K digital restoration.
Below is the complete list of August additions, with descriptions provided by Criterion.
- 5/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Ellen de Generes announces movie sequel, and there are more fishy tales in our roundup of spoof stories
Ellen de Generes has had a running gag in her CBS show in which she berates Disney's Pixar for not producing a sequel to hit animation Finding Nemo. On Tuesday's show, she herself highlighted the extent of her obsession, pointing out that there have been sequels to Toy Story, Cars and Shrek, but none so far to the aquatic adventure. Then she revealed that there will be a sequel – in which she will reprise the role of Dory – to be released in 2015. She ended by telling children: "Kids, let that be a lesson to you. Anything is possible if you're patient and you beg hard enough on national television." (Of course, it helps if you're friends with Hollywood producers who will tell you first.)
Ellen sets up the news about Finding Dory...
Ellen de Generes has had a running gag in her CBS show in which she berates Disney's Pixar for not producing a sequel to hit animation Finding Nemo. On Tuesday's show, she herself highlighted the extent of her obsession, pointing out that there have been sequels to Toy Story, Cars and Shrek, but none so far to the aquatic adventure. Then she revealed that there will be a sequel – in which she will reprise the role of Dory – to be released in 2015. She ended by telling children: "Kids, let that be a lesson to you. Anything is possible if you're patient and you beg hard enough on national television." (Of course, it helps if you're friends with Hollywood producers who will tell you first.)
Ellen sets up the news about Finding Dory...
- 4/5/2013
- by Dugald Baird
- The Guardian - Film News
From Never Mind The b******* to This is PiL, John Lydon has created some amazing music in his time, but he's also responsible for some brilliant TV moments. As we prepare for his appearance on BBC's Question Time, and a possible face-off with chick-lit author-turned-Tory MP Louise Mensch, we've been reliving some of them. From Grundy to the Jungle, here are our six favourite non-musical John Lydon moments from the last 35 years. Let's hope tonight provides another. Sex Pistols vs Bill Grundy on The Today Show
"Nothing, a rude word. Next question." John Lydon on Juke Box Jury
On Donna Summer's 'Bad (more)...
"Nothing, a rude word. Next question." John Lydon on Juke Box Jury
On Donna Summer's 'Bad (more)...
- 7/5/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Roger Ebert has just released a draft of the mockumentary script he wrote for the Sex Pistols svengali in 1977
The online publication of Roger Ebert's Anarchy in the UK film script, in the wake of the death of Malcolm McLaren, uncovers one of the more bizarre episodes in the Sex Pistols' story. It provides a barely fictional snapshot of the group at the height of their public notoriety, and raises the intriguing question of what the film would have been like.
The idea for a Sex Pistols film had been first mooted in February 1977, after the group was sacked by Emi: McLaren was obsessed with entering the heart of the media industry – where the big money was. After discussions with Peter Cook stalled, McLaren sponsored the making of Sex Pistols Number 1: an extraordinary montage of Sex Pistols TV News footage that is rarely seen.
In the summer of...
The online publication of Roger Ebert's Anarchy in the UK film script, in the wake of the death of Malcolm McLaren, uncovers one of the more bizarre episodes in the Sex Pistols' story. It provides a barely fictional snapshot of the group at the height of their public notoriety, and raises the intriguing question of what the film would have been like.
The idea for a Sex Pistols film had been first mooted in February 1977, after the group was sacked by Emi: McLaren was obsessed with entering the heart of the media industry – where the big money was. After discussions with Peter Cook stalled, McLaren sponsored the making of Sex Pistols Number 1: an extraordinary montage of Sex Pistols TV News footage that is rarely seen.
In the summer of...
- 4/29/2010
- by Jon Savage
- The Guardian - Film News
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