Julien Temple, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten director

Curt Holman — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:12:11 +0000

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten doesn’t look much like the usual rock-star documentary of the “Behind the Music” model. Director Julien Temple crafts something of an Irish wake for the Clash’s frontman, who justly called himself a “punk-rock warlord” and died in 2002 of a congenital heart defect.

In his later years, Strummer extolled the virtues of campfires as venues for fellowship and sharing ideas, so Temple films his present-day interviewees around open-air bonfires, as if we’re part of an impromptu gathering in honor of Strummer. Via old interviews and audio clips from his BBC World Service radio show, Strummer feels almost like an invisible presence at your elbow.

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Julien Temple, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten director

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