The Coolidge Corner Theatre

The Sex Pistols star in director Julien Temple's bizarre and hilarious fictional documentary charting the rise and fall of punk's most notorious band. The film presents the band's success as an elaborate scam perpetrated by its calculating manager, Malcolm McLaren, to make "a million pounds." A bubbling brew of devices and styles somehow mesh under firsttime helmer Julien Temple's wizardly direction to amplify McLaren's thesis on how to create a rock sensation in 10 easy lessons. Among his dicta are: Demonstrate To Record Companies The Enormous Potential Of A Band That Can't Play; Make It As Hard As Possible For The Press To See It; Insult Your Audiences As Much As Possible, and Cultivate Hatred.

(1980) dir: Julien Temple, w/ Malcolm McLaren, Steve Jones, Sid Vicious, Paul Cook, Johnny Rotten. 1h40m