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Exclusive: Under-the-radar documentary I Am Curious Johnny, about industrial heir and larger-than-life personality Johnny Pigozzi, has been picked up by HBO Max.

Directed by music documentary filmmaker Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury), the film was produced by Oscar winner Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor) under his Recorded Picture Company banner, together with Temple via his company Nitrate Film, and P.J. van Sandwijk (Ferrari) at Storyteller Productions.

The Lord Rothschild and Marie Savare amongst the executive producers. Submarine Entertainment are handling international sales.

French-born Italian Pigozzi, heir to the CEO of the automobile brand Simca, is known as a photographer, conservationist, philanthropist, venture capitalist, art collector and selfie proponent before it became commonplace, capturing celebrity moments from Studio 54 to the Polo Lounge in the 1970s.

Pigozzi’s mentors included Gianni Agnelli and Jimmy Goldsmith, while Mick Jagger and Michael Douglas are said to be among his best friends. The film features appearances from Douglas,...

Ten years ago, Dame Helen Mirren appeared on the IFC channel to introduce the landmark 50th season of “Documentary Now!” With nary a wink, she threw to a “classic” documentary film called “Sandy Passage,” which begins with the shaky title cards you’d expect from a 1970s documentary touting tiny production shingles that made the film possible. For all intents and purposes, an unaware viewer may have thought they had stumbled upon an esteemed, long-running TV show that highlights old documentaries.

Then Bill Hader and Fred Armisen showed up.

“What a glorious time Peak TV was,” co-creator and writer Seth Meyers told TheWrap ahead of the show’s 10th anniversary this August and on the eve of a new Blu-ray release that packages all four seasons in a complete collection.

The brainchild of creators Hader, Armisen, Meyers and Rhys Thomas, the central conceit of “Documentary Now!” was that each episode...

Eric Gardner, Chairman and CEO of Panacea Entertainment who began his career coordinating tours for Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead before pivoting to talent management for such clients as Paul Shaffer, Donny Osmond, The Sex Pistols, as well as members of The Rolling Stones, The E Street Band and The Who, died at his home in Camarillo, California, July 19 from complications of pneumonia. He was 74.

His death was announced by Janis Gardner, his wife and Panacea Entertainment co-owner.

Born Eric Winslow Gardner on November 20, 1949, Garner’s long and notable career as a talent manager, film, television, and Las Vegas residency show producer began in 1970 when he started coordinating tours for the bands Jefferson Airplane, Kiss, and the Grateful Dead. By 1973 his company Panacea Entertainment Corp. was coordinating tours for major bands in 23 countries around the world.

In 1974 Panacea’s emphasis shifted to talent management and over the year’s...

The first attempt to dramatize the Sex Pistols saga came with the release of the Julien Temple’s movie The Great Rock and Roll Swindle in 1980, just two years after the band imploded. The farcical film tells the story from the perspective of manager Malcolm McLaren and is so cartoonish that parts of it are actually animated.

It was the start of a mini-industry of Sex Pistols retrospectives that told their story from every conceivable angle, including the Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb movie Sid and Nancy, the Julien Temple documentary...

I’ve always been haunted by the clips of the young Queen Elizabeth II that were used in “The Filth and the Fury,” Julien Temple’s great documentary about the Sex Pistols. They were featured in a montage of images to accompany “God Save the Queen,” the thrillingly vandalistic Sex Pistols single released in 1977 to coincide with the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. At the time, the song was a singular scandal. When Johnny Rotten sneered the line “She ain’t no human being,” he seemed to be trashing something sacred and doing it in an apocalyptic yet profound way. What he meant, of course, is that if the Queen is no human being, that’s because she reigns over an inhuman system; she’s the monarch of a cruel empire. Yet in “The Filth and the Fury,” released 23 years after the Sex Pistols’ revolt, Elizabeth looked soft, radiant, beguiling, complex.

Julien Temple had never considered making a documentary about Shane MacGowan, the sensational, shambolic former Pogues frontman, until MacGowan himself asked him to do it. The pair had met in the mid-Seventies when MacGowan was just another punk pogoing at the Sex Pistols’ early shows, and they have remained friendly in the decades since. The director, whose credits include the yin-yang Sex Pistols films The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury, as well as pics about the Clash, Keith Richards, and the Kinks’ Davies brothers,...

Shane MacGowan does not look well. Then again, the former lead singer of the Pogues and one of our greatest living songwriters has not looked well for quite some time. The notion that he’s permanently, tipsily teetering on the edge of this mortal coil has been a part of MacGowan’s legacy for decades; with the exception of Keith Richards, no rock star has defied the odds of an early demise while indulging in drink, drugs and an appetite for self-destruction that would destroy mere mortals. And even when...

Johnny Depp has signed on as a producer for a feature documentary called “Shane” about the lead singer of punk band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan. The news was announced Wednesday by HanWay Films, which acquired the worldwide sales rights.

Julien Temple, director of “Glastonbury,” “The Filth and the Fury” and “London: The Modern Babylon,” is directing the documentary that examines MacGowan and his ability to write lyrics to hits like “Fairytale of New York” that captured Ireland’s spirit while he was on his very own personal voyage into the heart of darkness.

Temple will produce through Nitrate Film together with Depp and Stephen Deuters (“Minamata”) through Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil and Stephen Malit. HanWay Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and will introduce the project at the upcoming European Film Market, where the company will screen footage for the first time. Altitude Films will distribute the film in the U.

To celebrate the release of The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead – available on Digital Download 22nd May and Blu-ray/DVD 29th May – we are giving away a DVD courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.

A rip-roaring, hellraising account of one of the first and greatest punk bands, The Damned, who ripped up the 70s music scene, fell apart in chaos, reformed and are still touring today 40 years strong! This joins Lemmy, The Filth and the Fury and Anvil as a gleefully riotous, must watch rock-doc!

From the co-director of Lemmy, featuring Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, Lemmy, and members of Pink Floyd, Black Flag, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Sex Pistols, Fugazi, Blondie, The Buzzcocks and many more!

Pre-order today: po.st/DocBeDamned

To win The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead on DVD, just answer the following question:

How many studio albums have The Damned released...

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Since emerging out of the industrial fog of Nottingham in the late noughties, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn – aka Sleaford Mods – have charted an unlikely ascent. With rudimentary electronic soundscapes and blistering invectives, they have filled a void articulating the frustrations of the working class man and woman in Ukip heartland.

Now they are the subject of a documentary by erstwhile German music journalist Christine Franz in her debut film. The good news is that not only is Bunch of Kunst compelling in a gloriously roughshod, rambling fashion; it feels alive; bristling with energy and anger. Perceived as something of a cult concern, arched eyebrows greet the opening litany of glowing testaments from unlikely, high profile musical admirers.

From there, Franz consciously cuts back to the inauspicious, dingy rehearsal dens that remain the nexus for their work. Williamson wrestles with a chorus line and makes amendments to his lyrics,...

Even in the aftermath of an acrimonious breakup, the biggest British rock band since the Beatles check yet another box off in the legendary band to-do list with Oasis: Supersonic. The new documentary, now playing in a limited run in U.S. theaters, is every bit as worthy as some of the greatest rock docs of all time, from Julien Temple's Sex Pistols chronicle The Filth and the Fury to Joe Berlinger and the late Bruce Sinofsky's epic Metallica examination, Some Kind of Monster.

Focused solely on the meteoric rise that saw the scrappy Manchester disciples of Lennon-McCartney, Stone Roses, and the Smiths go from pubs to a pair of historic concerts at Knebworth that saw one in twenty (!) British citizens apply for tickets, Supersonic is as kinetic, transcendental and combustive as the two brothers at the band's center.

The charm and bravado of impossibly charismatic frontman Liam...

Music documentary will mark the first feature for production company Whizz Kidd.

Indie TV production outfit Whizz Kidd Entertainemnt is working with Essential Arts Entertainment and Nitrate Film on the Ibiza - The Silent Movie, which is set to be released in 2017.

The film will provide a “compelling audiovisual journey into Ibiza’s bohemian soul”, featuring original material documenting the island’s club scene alongside unseen archive material.

Whizz Kid is in conversations with an undisclosed music label and a terrestrial television broadcaster about partnering on the project, which will have its own soundtrack.

Ibiza - The Silent Movie will be executive produced by Whizz Kid chief executive Malcolm Gerrie and agent David Levy. Essential Arts Entertainment’s Richard Conway and Andrew Curtis are the producers.

“It’s long been my dream to tell the real story of this magical island and I can’t think of a better person to realise that vision than Julien Temple,” Gerrie...

Music Documentary Ibiza - The Silent Movie will be directed by punk filmmaker Julien Temple.

Indie TV production outfit Whizz Kidd Entertainemnt is working with Essential Arts Entertainment and Nitrate Film on the Ibiza - The Silent Movie, which is set to be released in 2017.

The film will provide a “compelling audiovisual journey into Ibiza’s bohemian soul”, featuring original material documenting the island’s club scene alongside unseen archive material.

Whizz Kid is in conversations with an undisclosed music label and a terrestrial television broadcaster about partnering on the project, which will have its own soundtrack.

Ibiza - The Silent Movie will be executive produced by Whizz Kid chief executive Malcolm Gerrie and agent David Levy. Essential Arts Entertainment’s Richard Conway and Andrew Curtis are the producers.

“It’s long been my dream to tell the real story of this magical island and I can’t think of a better person to realise that vision...

"Don't have to explain myself to you / I don't give two f**ks about your review" said Paul Weller with The Jam on 'The Modern World' back in 1977, so I don't think he'll be all that bothered by what I say about his band or this documentary.

He doesn't have to worry either way. Screened in the city ahead of its broadcast on Sky Arts next week, The Jam: About The Young Idea is a fine documentary that can reel in movie fans who hadn't necessarily surrendered to the beat of Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler before.

Riding on the back of a new photo exhibition of the band, the film is directed with economy and style by Bob Smeaton, one of the men behind the remarkable Beatles Anthology series from the mid-1990s.

About The Young Idea mixes up archive live footage, new conversations with the band and...

Johnny Rotten grabs the microphone and lurches forward, his pimply face grinning into the camera. Next to him, Steve Jones is miming (or mocking) guitar-hero moves, while Sid Vicious hunches over his bass, surly as ever. The grainy footage carbon-dates to the tail end of 1977, right before the band was about to embark on their notorious U.S. tour and then implode. It's Christmas Day in the Northern city of Huddersfield, and will turn out to be the penultimate U.K. performance for the seminal punk band. They launch into...

Asif Kapadia's breathtaking documentary Amy is already wowing critics and fans, so its official release this week makes it a good a time to be reminded of some other great music documentaries.

There's David Byrne's giant suit and Bob Dylan's oversize shades. Two films from Martin Scorsese but just one from Julien Temple. Punk rockers and pop superstars. We count through ten leading music documentaries below.

10. The Filth and The Fury (2000)

Julien Temple's first Sex Pistols film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren's make-it-up-as-you-go-along take on things. Twenty years on the same director gave the group the right to reply, including Sid Vicious with some beyond-the-grave archive footage.

9. In Bed with Madonna (1991)

Known as Madonna: Truth or Dare in the Us, this absurdly naughty chronicle of the Queen of Pop's infamous 'Blond Ambition' tour is arguably her greatest on-screen moment. Bitchiness, bottle-fellating...

Punk On Film at Triskel Christchurch 19- 22 July is a film season celebrating the legacy of the seminal punk movement that epitomises late 70’s Britain. The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead is a programme highlight with director Wes Orshoski at Triskel on Tuesday 21 July to introduce the screening. The Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and The Fury, the 1977 film Punk In London and Rude Boy, the part fiction – part rockumentary film about The Clash, are also part of the season. “I’m really honored to be bringing The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead to Cork, and to the Triskel,” says New York based filmmaker Wes Orshoski. “This screening will happen in the middle of a bucket-list tour of Ireland for me, and I can’t wait to meet some punk fans in Cork and trade stories. Any and all U2 stories are welcome!” The...

Chicago – In receiving the official Badasss Award at the 2015 Chicago International Movies & Music Fest (CIMMFest), legendary rock documentary maker Julien Temple simply said, “Badass is not a phrase we use in England. I’ve never been called a badass, I prefer ‘enfant terriblé,’ with a hope toward ‘monstre sacré.’”

And so it goes with one of the most prolific and influential rock documentarians in cinema history, with the whole evolution of the music form contained in his associations with The Kinks, the Clash (through Joe Strummer), the Rolling Stones and the Sex Pistols. What began as a student obsession with the discovery of the Sex Pistols in the 1970s, fueled a lifelong pursuit of rock documentary truth, feature film adventure and music video stylings. Julien Temple has provided the sights and the sounds.

Julien Temple (center), with CIMMFest officials Gary Kuzminski and Shannon Flynn, April 18, 2015

Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.

Exclusive: Moviehouse boards The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson.

UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has boarded international rights to Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury) documentary The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson.

The Essential Arts/Nitrate Film Production doc, from producers Richard Conway and Andrew Curtis, follows the remarkable story of acclaimed musician Wilko Johnson who was told he only had months to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but staged a remarkable recovery while still managing to tour.

The film is in the latter stages of post-production and will premiere at SXSW this March.

Director Temple said: “I was astonished by Wilko on Oil City Confidential when I realised the depth of his eccentricity and wisdom and wanted to celebrate the inspirational way he dealt with his death sentence, and in the end he confounded us all.”

Mark Vennis of Moviehouse added: “We are delighted and excited to bring this unique and cinematic story to the...

Never Mind the Baubles features footage of benefit gig – and final UK show – band played for children of striking firefighters

Johnny Rotten handed out badges, posters and other Sex Pistols-branded goodies. Teens and young children hit the dancefloor with Sid Vicious to boogie to pop hits such as Baccara's Yes Sir, I Can Boogie and (yes, really) Daddy Cool by Boney M. Then Rotten leapt into a giant Christmas cake and the band and audience smeared each other with food.

The Sex Pistols' last UK gig – a benefit for the children of striking firefighters at Ivanhoe's nightclub in Huddersfield on Christmas Day 1977 – remains their most implausible. However, almost 36 years to the day later, this surreal milestone is landing on our screens via Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 With the Pistols, to be shown on BBC4 on Boxing Day at 10pm.

"It's footage I filmed on a big old crappy U-matic low-band camera,...

The Hollywood Reporter says that Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order, Rent) will star as Marvin Gaye in the new Biopic Sexual Healing, replacing Lenny Kravitz.

Martin was originally set to play the singer in 2008, in a version produced by James Gandolfini but the project never happened. Kravitz signed on for the lead role in November but after Gaye’s son Marvin Gaye III voiced objections about the subject matter of the film, which revolved primarily around Gaye’s battle with addiction and depression in the 1980′s, the project shifted. The film will now begin with Gaye’s attempt to get his career back together and a big supporting role seems to be that of music promoter Freddy Cousaert, played by Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges, Harry Potter films).

Martin is an accomplished actor of theatre, musical theatre and film. He has a great voice and he’s a more qualified choice...

• Rock musician Lenny Kravitz (The Hunger Games, Precious) will get it on as celebrated singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye in an untitled biopic about the final years of the musician’s life, when he moved to Europe to overcome his substance abuse and ended up penning one of his most indelible hits, “Sexual Healing.” Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury) will direct. [Evening Standard/Deadline]

• Amy Smart, Terry Crews, Eddie Cibrian, and Nia Long have all signed up for Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club, Lionsgate announced Monday. Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids) and William Levy (of Dancing With the Stars fame) costar in a...

Lenny Kravitz is set to play singer/songwriter Marvin Gaye in a still-untitled biopic to be directed by Julien Temple ( The Filth and the Fury ), Deadline reports. Said to focus primarily on Gaye's life in London in the early 1980's, the film will focus on Gaye's struggle against addiction prior to his untimely death in 1984 when he was shot by his own father. A previous biopic of Gaye was planned some years back with F. Gary Gray ( The Italian Job ) set to direct. There's no update on the status of that film, but the Temple version is said to have locked down all necessary musical rights. Kravitz will making his debut as a leading man. The musician-turned-actor has previously appeared in films like The Hunger Games and Precious . He'll soon reprise his role as Cinna in...

The success of well-received ghost tale "The Woman In Black" has benefited pretty much everyone: Star Daniel Radcliffe has proven he can be a viable lead outside of the "Harry Potter" franchise, revived horror label Hammer Films has taken its place again at the top of the British genre tree (the picture has taken £20 million at the U.K. box office, making it the most successful home-grown horror picture ever), and director James Watkins has undoubtedly landed himself on the top of many wishlists.

Watkins, who made his debut with the Michael Fassbender-starring hoodie horror picture "Eden Lake," has sci-fi actioner "Methuselah" in the works from 'Potter' producer David Heyman, but it looks like that won't be his next picture: Screen Daily reports that he's changing lanes, excuse the pun, to direct the based-in-fact sports drama "Second Is Nowhere" for BBC Films and Al Films.

The script, penned by "Johnny English Reborn,...

Juno Temple has a memorable name, but that's not all that stands out when it comes to this beautiful young Brit with the incredible mane.

Her rising star is twinkling madly in both the UK and the U.S. as she gathers accolades from hot-shot directors and glossy magazines alike. Here's why this wild child is on our NextFactor radar.

Age: 22

Hometown: London

What She's Done: Highbrow fare like "Notes on a Scandal" and "Atonement" snuggle up to more edgy films like Gregg Araki's "Kaboom," "Cracks" and "Greenberg." She also played a beautiful cave girl in the big-screen bomb "Year One" with Jack Black and Michael Cera.

What She's Doing Now: In "Dirty Girl," Temple rocks out as Danielle, a small-town girl with a bad reputation. She recruits fellow outsider Clarke (Jeremy Dozier) to go on a road trip to find her real dad before her mom ("Musketeers...

In recent years France has been among the front-runners in pushing the boundaries of modern horror. With such offerings as Frontier(s), Inside and High Tension, French filmmakers have been making us seriously squirm. It is with this reminder of the quality of their filmmaking that we at Dread Central bring you an announcement of the film list from the 17th Annual L'Etrange Festival, France's biggest horror film festival.

With over 70 films being screened and more than 17,000 attendees expected to descend on Paris, Le'Etrange Festival

Below we have the Complete listing of the festival's events:

From the Press Release

L’Étrange Festival – a unique event bringing filmgoers a fascinating roster of provocative and eye-opening films – is thrilled to announce the line-up for its 17th edition, September 2 – 11, 2011 in Paris, France.

The 2011 line-up continues the tradition of highlighting emerging talent, paying homage to independent-minded filmmakers and featuring a truly diverse program that includes cutting-edge works,...

Julien Temple has made a career out of directing music videos, including icons like Van Halen, Whitney Houston and David Bowie. Aside from these, Temple hasn't really broken into the mainstream, preferring to focus his film work on top-notch music documentaries like "The Filth and the Fury" and "Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten," and looks to continue in that vein, as THR reports that he's prepping a series of music documentaries focused on various cities around the world. He plans to shoot "Children of the Revolution" in September…...

David Holmes To Write The Score Considering the way in which punk rock changed the music world so comprehensively, it's surprising that relatively few films have been made following the great bands of the era. There have been great documentaries, from "The Filth and the Fury" to Ramones doc "End of a Century" and "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten," and a handful of dramatic features--"Sid and Nancy" and "Slc Punk," while both flawed, have much to recommend them. But for the most part, the genre has produced films closer to the terrible Ian Dury biopic "Sex & Drugs &…...

Filmmaker Julien Temple ("The Filth and the Fury") is closing in on directing "Sexual Healing", the upcoming biopic about singer Marvin Gaye from Banana Films reports Screen Daily.

The story will follow the recording of the disc, a time when Gaye was struggling with drugs, living in Brussels and considered long past his prime. With the help of Belgian promoter Freddy Cousaert, Gaye launched a successful comeback.

Temple’s film is also said to be close to signing an agreement with Emi which holds the rights to Gaye’s music, something that will be crucial if the film is to be made at all.

Musician biopics are starting to pop up everywhere in the past week; first Tupac Shakur, then Milli Vanilli and now Marvin Gaye. Screen Daily has reported that Julien Temple, the man behind music docs like The Filth and the Fury and The Future Is Unwritten, has taken directorial duties on this long-delayed project and will begin shooting on location in Ostend, Belgium later this year.

The project was originally supposed to begin filming in April 2008 with Jesse L. Martin as Gaye and James Gandolfini playing the record producer who helped the singer stage a later in life comeback, but that never happened [The Playlist].

Now it is in entirely new hands, with Banana Films (based in Belgium) taking over with a budget of 8 million dollars and more importantly with Emi agreeing to let them use Gaye’s music without charging them an arm and a leg. Gandolfini and Martin are also not...

I don’t agree with most of the attacks on Hollywood by Christian fundamentalists, but there’s one criticism — and it’s a major one — that they’re absolutely right about: When it comes to portraying people of faith, Hollywood is worse than disrespectful — it’s shamefully disinterested. When a comedy like Saved, much as I liked it, passes for a vital vision of American Christian experience, you know that there’s something missing in our movie culture. (Robert Duvall’s The Apostle is a great film, but it’s about as far from the lives of everyday Christians as you can get.

Brighton On Screen

With the Brighton Rock remake on its way, the Duke Of York's cinema is getting in early with a season of films made in, or with links to, the area. An obvious choice is Quadrophenia, but the more curious should check out odder fare, like The Flesh And Blood Show, directed by former Doy projectionist Peter Walker, the dour thriller Jigsaw and John Mackenzie's Made, a social drama featuring folkie Roy Harper. The centrepiece is Brighton Rock Unseen, a tribute to Graham Greene's original novel and the iconic 1947 movie it spawned.

Duke Of York's, Sun to 29 Aug; picturehouses.co.uk

Chichester Film Festival

Opening with Sylvain Chomet's lovely, Jacques Tati-inspired animation The Illusionist, the 19th Chichester Film Festival is bent on bringing magic of all kinds to the screen. Aside from previews of upcoming Us, European, Asian and British flicks – including...

"I need you out here," Russ Meyer told me on the phone in 1977. It was 6 a.m. He could not conceive that I might still be asleep. "Have you ever heard of the Sex Pistols?"

"No," I said.

"They're a rock band from England. They got a lot of publicity for saying 'fuck' on TV. Now they have some money and want me to direct their movie."

"The Sex Pistols?" I said.

"Their manager is a guy named Malcolm McLaren. He called me from London. He said their singers were big fans of 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.' They go to see it every weekend they're in London. It's playing at the Electric Cinema on Portobello Road."

No director except possibly for Stanley Kubrick was better informed than Russ about where his movies were playing. Kubrick used to call specific theaters to complain about light intensity. Russ used...

A new wave of biopics and rockumentaries – including films about Blur, the White Stripes and Muse – leads the attack on "the blandest of the bland"

A backlash has begun against the ­stranglehold that television talent shows have on the British music industry. Films about rock history are the first line of attack, according to the leading directors and musicians who are driving a growing public interest in the bands that have shaped popular music.

Ten films chronicling the lives of pop stars and rock musicians have been released or gone into production in recent months. John Lennon, Ian Dury and the record producer Joe Meek have already been the subjects of biopics, and screenwriters are now delving into ­Britain's rich rock past to tell the stories of other musicians.

This week sees the release of Oil City Confidential, an account of Canvey Island pub-rockers Dr Feelgood. The film's director, Julien Temple,...

Music documentary-maker Julien Temple is to turn his attention to the sibling spats of Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks in a new film

Julien Temple, the director of Sex Pistols documentaries The Great Rock'n' Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury, is planning to shoot a feature film about Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks. To be titled You Really Got Me, the movie will focus on the "extraordinary love-hate relationship" between the brothers, which often resulted in legendary on-stage and off-stage spats. It will also examine the development of the band's sound, from the tough r'n'b of their mid 60s period, to their later fascination with music-hall and rock opera.

Speaking to ScreenDaily, Temple said: "Love/hate, sibling rivalry is at the core. I think it's a very rich social, cultural nexus around the Kinks. Their story is the untold story of all those big bands of the 1960s.

Some people, myself included, are still waiting on a Kinks reunion tour. But until that happens, fans of The Kinks have one exciting bit of news to tide us over. Julien Temple, director of such films as The Filth And The Fury and The Great Rock’N'roll Swindle, Earth Girls Are Easy, and (because I love David Bowie I’ll mention) Absolute Beginners is working on a film about the legendary British band.

Read more on The Kinks biopic in development…...

The Cork Film Festival, which takes place from November 1-8, has confirmed the attendance of documentary director Julien Temple (Glastonbury, Vigo – Passion for Life), Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel (The Man with No Shadow) and Austrian helmer Peter Tscherkassky at this year's event. Festival organisers have announced that the world renowned documentary and film maker Julien Temple will attend the Festival for the screening of his latest film 'Oil City Confidential' which tells the story of the British music industry in the 1970's and acts as a prequel to his film 'The Filth and the Fury'.

Movie-maker Julien Temple was left emotionally drained after completing his new SEX PISTOLS documentary Filth and the Fury, The (2000). The film intersperses fresh interviews with the group members along with previously-unseen footage of gigs and rehearsals by the ANARCHY IN THE UK hitmakers. Temple says, "I found myself reliving some of the emotions. I think the only thing you can do with something like that is to immerse yourself in the feeling of the thing. But because it's something you've lived through, and you're doing it again, it has strange memories." And Temple found the segments featuring the late Sid Vicious particularly moving to sift through again. He adds, "When you do something like the Sid interview, you can't help being emotionally hit by it. There's sadness and tragedy in there."...