The Future Is Unwritten
by Julian Temple
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Actor: Joe StrummerDirector: Julian Temple
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Explicit Lyrics, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Legacy
Movie Reviews of The Future Is Unwritten
Movie Review: The Future Started Here
Summary: 4 Stars
For those of you familiar with the Clash, this film is a treasure. For those uninitiated, get ready for the ride of your life. If you know the work of Julian Temple (Earth Girls are Easy, Absolute Beginners), you know he has a tendency to over embellish things (he went to Art College, after all), but because of the subject matter, Joe Strummer and the Clash, it becomes more a matter of substance over style after the first 10-15 minutes. You get to find out what Joe's childhood was like, how he struggled as a teen, became the champion of many social causes, and all the while re-invented rock and roll. The interviews are touching and enlightening, and it is notable to see how Strummer touched so many creative people, from musicians to artists to directors, etc.
When I watched this film I became aware of how the Clash really helped to form my opinions about music, and how the Clash opened my mind to similar progressive minded bands. At a time when Steve Perry and Journey were soaring up the Billboard charts I would scour the import bins for vinyl by the Clash and like-minded groups. To this day I still emulate the band's values and hope younger artists will take note and follow suit.
Summary of The Future Is Unwritten
As the frontman 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 acclaimed filmmaker Julien Temple's 'The Future Is Unwritten', Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or a musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship that developed during the last years of Joe Strummer's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer--before, during, and after The Clash.Julien Temple, one of the early documentarians of the London punk scene and director of the 2000 Sex Pistols film The Filth and the Fury, turns his attention now to that other seminal British band: The Clash--or more accurately, to the band's co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer, Joe Strummer. The Future is Unwritten is more than just a biography of Strummer; it is a tribute and exploration of a musician, artist and devoted humanist. Though Temple respects and admires Strummer (his influence is exalted by close friends, peers and fans like Bono and John Cusack), he doesn't romanticize this larger-than-life personality and presents Strummer honestly and not always in flattering light, though the director's fondness for his subject is constant. Most movingly, Strummer himself provides the narration via reassembled excerpts from a variety of interviews and the BBC radio show he hosted during the nineties. In the wrong hands, this could be contrived, but in this masterful documentary it serves as a testament to not just Joe Strummer the myth, but Joe Strummer the man, telling us his story in vivid detail. The Future is Unwritten is a moving and personal portrait of a musician who helped shaped not just punk, but modern music as a whole. --Kira Canny
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