Julien Temple

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020)

A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that combines unseen archive footage from the band and MacGowan's family with original animations. ...

Ibiza: The Silent Movie (2019)

This unique and innovative project provides a compelling audiovisual journey into 2,000 years of Ibiza's bohemian soul. The film captures Temple's iconic style and boasts a soundtrack curated by world renowned artist Fatboy Slim, including his smash hits R ...

My Life Story (2018)

Is it a Drama? A Comedy? Or Music Hall dream? Director Julien Temple (The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners) takes a stage show, adds some drama, archive, animation and music, then shakes it all up for MY LIFE STORY where singer Suggs, takes a ...

Habaneros (2017)

A brief history of the Cuban capital of Havana, backed by a vibrant soundtrack of son cubano, salsa, jazz, rumba, mambo and hip hop. Drawing on archive footage, animations, movie excerpts and interviews with Havana residents, eyewitnesses and experts, Haba ...

Keith Richards - The Origin of the Species (2016)

A Julien Temple-authored documentary essay film about Keith Richards's postwar childhood and adolescence in Dartford and London. Exploring the cultural undercurrents and transformative thinking which occurred in England between 1945 and 1962 and made possi ...

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015)

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 l ...

The Clash: New Year's Day '77 (2015)

Built around the earliest, until now unseen, footage of the Clash in concert, filmed by Julien Temple as they opened the infamous Roxy club in a dilapidated Covent Garden on January 1st 1977, this show takes us on a time-travelling trip back to that strang ...

Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca (2014)

A look at Rio's cultural, political and technical revolutions since the 1970s to 2011 ...

Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols (2013)

Director Julien Temple presents a unique insight into the tradition and transgression of Christmas. Featuring interviews and 70s archive, framing the Sex Pistols' last UK concert with Sid Vicious, for the children of striking firemen in Huddersfield on Chr ...

Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (2012)

Special 35th anniversary edition CD/DVD box set of "Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols". Includes: Riverboat Party (Queen Elizabeth River Boat, The River Thames, London, June 7th 1977) / Happy House Stockholm (Sweden, July 28th 1977) / Wi ...

London: The Modern Babylon (2012)

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown. ...

Glastopia (2012)

In this personal film, Julien Temple, who directed the definitive documentary history of the Glastonbury Festival, explores the alternative side of the festival away from the spotlight of the main stages with their global pop superstars. In fields known a ...

Ray Davies: Imaginary Man (2010)

Alan Yentob meets Ray Davies, the creative powerhouse behind The Kinks and author of some of the best-loved songs of the 60s, who candidly discusses the vicissitudes of his career. ...

Requiem for Detroit? (2010)

A look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement. ...

Oil City Confidential (2009)

Director Julien Temple's film celebrates Canvey Island's Dr Feelgood, the Essex R 'n' B band that exploded out of the UK in the prog era of the early Seventies, delivering shows and albums that helped pave the way for pub rock and punk. ...

Madness: The Liberty of Norton Folgate (2009)

'Madness' are about to release a new album after 10 years, which consists of an interrelated, song cycle about London called 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate'. Although the songs are on one level about different areas of London, they focus musically on the w ...

The Eternity Man (2008)

An adaptation of the opera 'The Eternity Man' ...

Sex Pistols: There'll Always Be an England (2008)

There'll Always Be an England' - named after Vera Lynn's stirring intro music - was recorded on Saturday, November 10th and captures the energy and excitement of the band and the crowd. The whole of the classic 'Never Mind The Bollocks' album is performed, ...

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film direct ...

Glastonbury (2006)

Julien Temple's 2006 documentary film about the famous music festival from 1970 to 2005, featuring performances from artists such as David Bowie, Bjork, Blur, Oasis and Coldplay. The film is made up of footage shot by Temple at the festival in 2002, 2003, ...

We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You (2004)

We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You is the first DVD by the Scissor Sisters, released on November 29, 2004. It contains a full live concert filmed at Brighton Dome in August 2004, featuring backstage footage and extras. It includes the documentary "Re ...

Scissor Sisters: Return to Oz (2004)

A short documentary about New York glam-pop group Scissor Sisters, how they met, how they got started (dingy gay NYC clubs) and how they're dealing with fame... ...

David Bowie: Best of Bowie (2002)

Disc 1: Oh. You Pretty Things, Queen Bitch), Five Years, Starman, John I'm Only Dancing, The Jean Genie, Space Oddity, Drive-in Saturday, Life on Mars?, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, Young Americans, Be My Wife, "Heroes," Boys Keep Swinging, D.J., Look Back ...

Pandaemonium (2001)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relatio ...

Sade: Life Promise Pride Love (2001)

The Sade: Life Promise Pride Love DVD is a visual greatest hits compilation spanning the band's career from 1984 to the early 2000s. Originally released as a video and laserdisc in 1993, the definitive DVD version was released on December 12, 2000, featuri ...

blur | The Best Of (2000)

Blur: The Best Of is a greatest hits compilation album by English Britpop band Blur, first released in late 2000 and is the final Blur album by Food Records. It was released on CD, cassette tape, MiniDisc, double 12" vinyl record, DVD and VHS. The CD album ...

The Filth and the Fury (2000)

Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, ...

Vigo (1998)

Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium. ...

Bullet (1996)

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime. ...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live (1992)

Recorded live at the Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California on November 24th and at the Lawlor Events Center, Reno, Nevada on November 23rd 1991 ...

Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max (1991)

A filming of the 1990 Rolling Stones "Steel Wheels" concert that traveled Europe. This was filmed in the IMAX process, which allows the film to be projected in a size ten times the size of a regular 35mm projected image. ...

Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three ha ...

Aria (1987)

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria. ...

Running Out of Luck (1987)

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events. ...

Absolute Beginners (1986)

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Coli ...

Come Dancing with The Kinks (1986)

Promotional music video for album of the same name. ...

David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean (1984)

Jazzin' for Blue Jean is a 20-minute short film featuring David Bowie and directed by Julien Temple. It was created to promote Bowie's single "Blue Jean" in 1984 and released as a video single. The film depicts the adventures of the socially incompetent V ...

Smooth Operator (1984)

Sade performs in the music video "Smooth Operator" from the album "Diamond Life" recorded for Epic Records and Portrait Records. Sade sings with her band in a lounge against a red background as people dance. A criminal in aviator sunglasses meets with seve ...

Mantrap (1983)

A longform video that showcases the British pop group ABC, using songs from their album "The Lexicon of Love" to tell a spy-caper story of how the unsuspecting lead singer, Martin Fry, is duped into fronting the band because of his striking resemblance to ...

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982)

Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the ...

The Comic Strip (1981)

A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents' ...

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him i ...

Biceps of Steel (1980)

A modern retelling of the Samson and Delilah story. A super roadie fights evil bouncers stopping a rock and roll crowd from having a good time. He then falls foul of an evil wench who seduces and cuts his hair in order to take away his strength. ...

Punk Can Take It (1979)

Julien Temple's wartime documentary parody "Punk Can Take It" (1979) - a theatrically released promo for the UK Subs, complete with narration by BBC voice-over veteran John Snagge - paints a glorious picture of England in a punk rock "identity crisis". Pun ...

The Tunnyng of Elinour Rummyng (1976)

I Am a Mutoid: A Glastonbury Hero (2021)

Spreading the gospel of "Mutation", Joe Rush and his Mutoid Waste Company, an underground collective of wild and subversive performers whose credo is the art made of waste, the parties and the road, shake up the alternative cultural history of Europe. ...

The Public Image Is Rotten (2017)

British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd. ...

Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under (2015)

The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie's biggest-ever hit record – and how an unlikely journey, deep into the Australian outback, led to its unprecedented success. ...

Here Comes the Summer: The Undertones Story (2012)

In 1978 the Undertones released Teenage Kicks, one of the most perfect and enduring pop records of all time - an adolescent anthem that spoke to teenagers all over the globe. It was the first in a string of hits that created a timeless soundtrack to growin ...

London: The Modern Babylon (2012)

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown. ...

Requiem for Detroit? (2010)

A look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement. ...

David Bowie: Rare and Unseen (2010)

Most famous for his alter-ego, the ostentatious, androgynous "Ziggy Stardust", Bowie has continually reinvented his music and image. He has had numerous top ten hits in the US & UK, most notably China Girl, Space Oddity, Under Pressure and more. Told throu ...