Read: Village Voice on Joe Strummer
Julien Temple’s new documentary on the life and times of Joe Strummer, appropriately titled Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten hits the United States in limited release this Tuesday (November 2).
You can watch a trailer for the film below…
Jim Ridley of The Village Voice has written a pretty nice review that details the profoundness of both the musical legend documented as well as the overall high quality of the film.
Punk died, the Silver Jews sang, the first time a kid shouted “Punk’s not dead!” The words are never uttered in Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, and maybe that’s why you come away from this epic doc feeling hopeful about the health of punk’s lingering ideals. Piecing together snippets of everything from Raging Bull to an animated Animal Farm, along with archival scraps, performance clips, and a mosaic of witness testimonies, 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.
You can read the rest of the review on The Village Voice website.
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