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Julien Temple
Director 72 years old

Julien Temple

London, England, UK

Julien Temple (born 26 November 1953 and educated at St Marylebone Grammar School ) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects. Description above from the... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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10 titles
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

Julien Temple 2020 2h 4m 6.0

A look at the life of Irish singer/songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan.

Oil City Confidential

Oil City Confidential

Julien Temple 2009 1h 44m

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.

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Julien Temple 2007 2h 3m 7.4

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.

Glastonbury

Glastonbury

Julien Temple 2006 2h 15m 5.0

A documentary on the 30th anniversary of Britain's best-known music festival.

The Filth and the Fury

The Filth and the Fury

Julien Temple 2000 1h 48m 7.7

A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.

Bullet

Bullet

Julien Temple 1996 1h 40m 10.0

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.

Earth Girls Are Easy

Earth Girls Are Easy

Julien Temple 1988 1h 40m 6.8

Three furry, crazy aliens crash land in a California girls pool. Comedy, music and romance follow.

Aria

Aria

Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell 1987 1h 37m

This omnibus directors fest brings together 10 different filmmakers making 10 different films based on operatic arias.

Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners

Julien Temple 1986 1h 48m 6.3

In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Julien Temple 1980 1h 43m 5.0

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 in order to make "a million pounds."

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