For about an hour, the Sex Pistols new self-indulgent, slash-and-burn documentary is a fascinating patchwork of interviews, lost concert footage, 90-mile-per-hour biographical data and body slams directed at record companies and managers (okay, Malcolm McLaren) who the band feels screwed them during their 18-month existence. But once the rare clips and Johnny Rotten's gritty, grinning anecdotes run out, it becomes a repetitive, excessive and bitter rant. Essentially an update of 1980's The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, but from the band's point of view, this isn't much more than a vanity piece in which the Pistols take pride in their scabs. Not a necessary purchase. (R. Blackwelder)
The Filth & the Fury
New Line, 108 min., R, VHS: $66, DVD: $24.98, Oct. 10 Vol. 15, Issue 5
The Filth & the Fury
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