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
DVD Reviews of The Future Is Unwritten
DVD 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.
DVD Review: The Future Is Unwritten - A Peek Into The Life And Music of Joe Strummer
Summary: 5 Stars
The Future Is Unwritten is easily one of the best music documentaries and bio-pictures I have seen over the past year. In fact, this might be one of the best such productions ever made. I only hesitate to make that claim because, being rather detail oriented, I want to research more of the information included as well as see this film a few more times before putting it on that kind of pedestal. Still, this film humanizes Joe and his work in a way that is both respectful and honest. It gives us a valid picture of who Joe was, and yet somehow manages to not fall into the hole of idol-worship that most music documentaries succumb to. On all counts, those are significant accomplishments indeed.
Like most musician bio-pictures, this one is comprised in large part of interviews and commentaries about Joe and by Joe. We get to see clips of him speaking and reflecting in his own words on the success of The Clash as well as the ups and downs he experienced since the group broke up, both in and out of music. You can't help but feel a certain closeness to Joe's life that was not easily obtained from the books and movies that were made before this one. And you can't help but feel happy for Joe that he was able to get back out of the shadows and start performing live again after all those years. After all, if it weren't for Joe bands like Green Day probably would have never existed if not for him and The Clash.
One key difference however, is that some of the stylized narration that is normal for such features has been intelligently pared down to a minimum. They also seem to have done an excellent job in choosing great clips and editing them in such a way that even the random thoughts and opinions of the many interviewees flow extremely well. So not only is this watchable, but you are bound to gain at least some small insight you didn't have before watching. And that applies to the general music fan just as much as it does to the hardcore fan of Joe and his work.
Definitely give this documentary top billing and rent it or buy it soon. This is a work of story telling that any music lover can appreciate.
Enjoy.
DVD Review: Johnny we hardly knew ya
Summary: 5 Stars
I can listen to Joe and be ok, but I have a hard time watching him in action since he's gone. We were friends for a long time. I conveniently missed it when it was in the theater, avoided purchasing it when it first came out, because I thought it would just be too heartbreaking to watch....but don't be a dope like me! IT's a wonderful film, my family and I watched it Christmas Eve. It's priceless to see home movies from when he was a kid, and see his parents. You see him as "Woody" and with his little girls, and just about every aspect of his personality, from the foulest of tempers, with due cause I might add...to just how gentle he really was underneath all the angst. There's great concert footage, great interviews around the campfires, which was one of his things...People tend to think about Joe for the things he said, they don't always get that the best thing about him was the way he listened. I could talk about Joe till the cows come home, but I'll spare you all. If you're a Joe fan, or a Clash fan in general, you MUST have this film, IT is the quintessential Joe film. I've always enjoyed Mr. Temple's work, and with this, he's outdone himself, and I'd like to thank him for putting it out there for us.
You should also check out Dick Rude's film Let's Rock Again, it's an entirely different type of film, also very touching and a good record of Joe's work with the Mescalero's, and thanks to those guys for getting him out of the wilderness and back on stage, and to Dickie for getting it all down!
DVD Review: THe Future is Unwritten
Summary: 5 Stars
Julian Temple consistently creates outstanding documentaries and this one is equal to his masterpiece on the Sex Pistols THe Filth and the Fury. This documentary really gets deep into the man, Joe Strummer and those associated with him during his years before, during and after The Clash. One of the best documentaries out there.DVD Review: The Future is unwritten
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must see DVD for not only die hard CLASH fans but for those who follow the history of popular music. The desperation of the times is truly captured in a massive collection of archival footage and interviews with friends and foes alike. Joe Strummer came out of a bohemian existence to lead the ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS to worldwide acclaim and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This documentary follows Strummer's humble pub band beginnings to starting the Clash starving the whole way thru flare ups,arrests, controversies and ultimately...success. The most important message throughout is that the band never really compromised their vision.Though detractors fault them for experimenting in different styles and the Clash were in effect always trying to make that next step forward. True the band burned out rather than fade away, but their place in history was all secured in a few short incendiary years.. The sorry part of watching The Future is Unwritten is the fact that Joe Strummer is no longer with us to make thought provoking music...but what a legacy he left behind...this is a must see !!!
Description 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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