As the front man 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 "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last year... (Full plot summary below)
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As the front man 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 "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.
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| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreJulien Temple's film is an energizing work of art, a visually striking and inspiring look at a band that never 'sold out' and the leader who saw to it that they didn't. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirThe most powerful documentary I've seen all year, and one of the two or three best films ever made about an artist or musician. |
| Blunt ReviewEmily BluntThis offers Strummer fans unlimited access to the man behind the legend. Though it really is for fans - who should run and buy it. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesBy focusing on Strummer and giving a fair amount of screen time to his years in the wilderness before and after the Clash, Temple arrives at a more poignant and mature statement of what this committed band was all about. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe film is much more than a biography of the Clash’s guitarist and lead singer: It’s history, criticism, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyThe great thing about the cumulative effect of the documentary is its ability to give the audience a strong sense of Strummer's uncompromising humanitarian ideals. You'll laugh, you'll cheer, and you'll shed a tear. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe triumph of this fond, uncontainable documentary is that it lets you hear that voice again loud and clear. |
| Philadelphia InquirerDan DeLucaJulian Temple, the British music-documentary director who helmed the 2000 Pistols' flick "The Filth and the Fury," has done such cinematic justice to the punk humanist born John Graham Mellor, who died of a congenital heart defect in 2002. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoThe end result is a documentary that feels very insider and exclusive... it's probably best suited to those who are already fans. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyTemple, who chronicled the Sex Pistols...offers the full, sometimes bloated, context of Strummer's life through the testimony of his many friends and collaborators. |
