Projects matching: Julien Temple

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Documentary focusing on Irish musician and The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, featuring animation, unseen footage from director Julien Temple’s own archives and contributions from collaborators, artists and MacGowan’s family. The film culminates with MacGowan's 60th birthday celebration, populated by musicians and film stars.
Artist Ralph Steadman, known for his collaborations with writer Hunter S. Thompson, provides original artwork which animator Jonny Halifax brings to life.
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020 - Competition - World premiere
Special Jury Prize, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020

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Legendary music film director Julien Temple’s brings to screen IBIZA – THE SILENT MOVIE, a collaboration with Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) on board as music director.
This unique and innovative project, financed by leading international entertainment production and finance company Silver Reel and BBC Music, based around a feature length documentary film will provide a compelling audiovisual journey into 2,000 years of Ibiza’s bohemian soul. The film will capture Temple’s iconic style and will feature music from and curated by renowned artist Fatboy Slim (RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW; PRAISE YOU; WEAPON OF CHOICE).
Temple says; “With the incredible 2,000 year history of this magical island as a subject and the genius of Norman Cook now on board to produce a soundtrack you can dance to, we believe this film will take event media to a whole new level”

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'The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson' confronts our worst nightmares of impending death and turns them upside down. It tells the extraordinary, yet universal story of legendary musician Wilko Johnson who, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given a few months to live, accepted his fate with uplifting positivity and embarked on a farewell tour, capturing the imagination of the world as he went. But like every good story Wilko's has a damn fine twist in its tail. Two years later and confounding the odds, Wilko wakes up in a hospital bed, unexpectedly sentenced to live, having now to integrate those enlightened lessons learnt under sentence of death into the unexpected and ongoing future of his life.
SXSW 2015 - World premiere

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The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie's biggest-ever hit record – and how the birth of MTV, and an unlikely journey deep into the Australian outback led to its unprecedented success.
Official Selection Berlinale 2015 - Generation 14plus - World premiere

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Rio 50 Degrees is the story of how a city, with the help of its musicians and their music, discovered its liberty, its voice and its soul. It is the story of Rio de Janeiro and the part the music played in its re-democratisation and recovery, as it positions itself as a city fit for the 21st century.

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A journey through time that reflects on the social, political, financial, musical and cultural revolutions that have taken place in Rio over the past 40 turbulent years. It is also a journey through the city's evolving and eclectic music scene, and an expression on the power of music - as a form of protest and comment - that can be a catalyst for change.

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Julien Temple's epic time-travelling voyage to the heart of his hometown. From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and above all ordinary people, this is the story of London's immigrants, its bohemians and how together they changed the city forever. Reaching back to the dawn of film in London at the start of the 20th century, the story unfolds in film archive, voices of Londoners past and present and the flow of popular music across the century; a stream of urban consciousness, like the river which flows through its heart. It ends as London prepares to welcome the world to the 2012 Olympics.

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Oil City Confidential is a film noir feature length documentary and about Dr Feelgood; it's the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early '70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll and left all that came before a burnt-out ruin, four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten's anti-Christ.

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Filmmaker Julien Temple chronicles the transformation of a self-described 'mouthy little git', born John Mellor, into an antiestablishment icon known to the world as Joe Strummer. In his latest documentary, Temple uncovers the myth behind the front man of the seminal punk band the Clash.

Through previously unearthed interviews with Strummer himself and recollections of those who knew him best, Temple reveals a complex man who used his music as a bullhorn for his conscience, as well as a means to educate others about the injustices of the world. The film includes live concert footage spanning Strummer's career and tapes of his BBC radio program, all of which provide a fitting soundtrack to his distinctive and storied existence.
 

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A staggering range of music captures the spirit of extraordinary world changes over the last 30 years.

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Although set in the past, Pandaemonium is a film about contemporary themes of friendship, creativity, addiction and betrayal. It is also the story of a love that outlasts all these things. When they wrote, the depth of feeling and experience conveyed in Coleridge and Wordsworth's poetry had as immediate and visceral an impact on their audience as great movies or popular music do today. Together they revolutionised writing in English and changed the direction of 19th century thought.

Both were clearly men of genius, but both were also flawed. It is these faults within each of them and their intense relationship with each other which makes this story not a literary biopic but an immediate human drama connecting directly with our own experience. I see the young Coleridge and Wordsworth as figures with great resonance for today. The 1790s, like the 1990s, were a time of profound political and technological change. The French Revolution, the social upheaval of industrialisation, the first exploration of flight, electricity and photography, all announced the beginning of the modern world. Like us at the end of the twentieth century, Coleridge and his friends were excited by these breakthroughs, yet questioned what the future of industry and technology might bring. Their deep trust in nature prefigures our own ecological concerns. Their status as celebrities, pre-dating Byron, Shelley and Keats, made them the 'pop stars' of their day, drawing sell-out crowds to their lectures and public appearances. Many in today's audience will sympathise with Coleridge's desperate struggle with his own insecurities and addiction, something that had never occurred in such a public context before. I hope to emphasise these important parallels and convey the emotional power of the story to a wide audience by shooting the film in a thoroughly contempory style. A mobile and often hand-held camera will be employed to give the film a raw and realistic edge, capturing the sense of young people doing things that had not been done before, and accentuating the spirit rather than the letter of the time. - Julien Temple.

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Catching Fire is a tragic but inspiring love story based loosely on the intense and passionate relationship between Jean Vigo, a young filmmaker, and his wife Lydu.





Set in the early 1930's, Jean and Lydu met at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Pyrenees. The love that develops between them becomes a liberating force enabling them to confront their illness, live for the moment, challenge the odds and embrace life in the face of great adversity.