The Great Rock'N'Roll Swindle
Screening on Film
Directed by Julien Temple .
With Malcolm McClaren, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones.
UK, 1980, 35mm, color, 103 min.
With Malcolm McClaren, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones.
UK, 1980, 35mm, color, 103 min.
One of the very greatest rock films, and hardly ever seen. Director Julien Temple found the properly nihilist, chaotic structure to hang loosely around the Sex Pistols, as they went about their merrily destructive way. Here they are, raw and real: Johnny Rotten and the actual-life, soon-dead Sid Vicious.
