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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
IFC Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Bono,
Steve Buscemi,
Terry Chimes,
John Cooper Clarke,
John Cusack,
Johnny Depp,
Matt Dillon,
and
Joe Strummer
As the lead singer of The Clash from 1977 onward, 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 director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship that developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer--before, during, and after The Clash. (IFC Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Julien Temple
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 8, 2008
Theatrical: November 2, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
123 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Ireland / UK |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The most powerful documentary I've seen all year, and one of the two or three best films ever made about an artist or musician.
91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
That rarest of movie biographies: a warts-and-all exploration of the life and times of its subject.
90
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
By focusing on Strummer and giving a fair amount of screen time to his years in the wilderness before and after the Clash, Temple arrives at a more poignant and mature statement of what this committed band was all about.
90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The film is much more than a biography of the Clash’s guitarist and lead singer: It’s history, criticism, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud.
88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The triumph of this fond, uncontainable documentary is that it lets you hear that voice again loud and clear.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
Julian Temple, the British music-documentary director who helmed the 2000 Pistols' flick "The Filth and the Fury," has done such cinematic justice to the punk humanist born John Graham Mellor, who died of a congenital heart defect in 2002.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Captures the Joe Strummer who, in the late 1970s, just about firebombed the rock establishment with his fury.
83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Temple introduces viewers to Strummer the punster, Strummer the womanizer, and Strummer the poseur, whom his mates could only really talk to when no one else was around.
80
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The film is a rigorously thorough biography and an impassioned accolade. Temple spends as much time on Strummer's life before and after the Clash as he does charting the band's powerful musical and political influence.
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
One artist's moving tribute to another.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Like an early Clash number, it's by turns lovely and ugly, loud as bombs and quiet as a revolution's first-thrown stone; it acknowledges the legend while uncovering the truth.
75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The movie fascinates not so much because of Strummer, whose brooding temperament and flash-and-burn career arc seems pretty routine by rock standards, but because of the way Temple organized and edited the film.
75
Chicago Tribune
Greg Kot
Its moving narrative requires little in the way of embellishment, but Temple’s documentary sometimes becomes too clever for its own good.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Joel Selvin
One of the most direct and personal music documentaries ever made.
75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
At its best, it throbs with immediacy, just as Strummer did.
75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Compelling viewing, even for people who don't care a bit for the punk scene.
70
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
Temple's engrossing portrait of the Clash's late frontman uses endlessly suggestive montage to show how he kept punk's precepts alive, even after he left the music and eventually the earth itself.
60
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
At least the movie never bogs down. But you only get a taste of what made the Clash for a brief period the most exciting band on that side of the Atlantic.
50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Thirty years down the line, not everyone looks as they once did, so even fans will have trouble putting names to aged faces. Newcomers, meanwhile, will feel hopelessly shut out.
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