Julien Temple

Directing

Julien Temple

Born

1953-11-26 (72)

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

50 titles

Julien Temple (born 26 November 1953 and educated at St Marylebone Grammar School ) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julien Temple, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

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5.1

The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

Film '72

1971

Earth Girls Are Easy poster
5.6

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.

Earth Girls Are Easy

1988

Absolute Beginners poster
5.5

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

Absolute Beginners

1986

No artwork available
NR

Riverside was a TV series broadcast on BBC2 in the United Kingdom featuring musicians, bands, actors, fashion designers, artists and comedians. It consisted of sketches, interviews and live performances. Guests included Alice Cooper, Steve Strange, Martin Rushent, Alan Adler, Clare Grogan, Paul Weller, Martin Fry, The Cure, The Smiths, New Order and Pauline Black.

Riverside

1982

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten poster
7.3

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.

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

2007

Punk Britannia poster
7.5

A brand new take on the most transformative force in British popular music history.

Punk Britannia

2012

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

London: The Modern Babylon poster
6.4

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

London: The Modern Babylon

2012

The Public Image Is Rotten poster
7.4

British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd.

The Public Image Is Rotten

2017

Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under poster
1.5

The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie’s biggest-ever hit record – and how an unlikely journey, deep into the Australian outback, led to its unprecedented success.

Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under

2015

David Bowie: Rare and Unseen poster
NR

Most famous for his alter-ego, the ostentatious, androgynous "Ziggy Stardust", Bowie has continually reinvented his music and image. He has had numerous top ten hits in the US & UK, most notably China Girl, Space Oddity, Under Pressure and more. Told through archive interviews (originally thought lost) and rare and unseen footage, this DVD is a worthy addition to any Bowie collection. Items genuinely unseen and never before appeared on DVD including film from the ITN archive. Includes lost and now restored TV interviews from the past and rare film of the singer talking about his career.

David Bowie: Rare and Unseen

2010

Here Comes the Summer: The Undertones Story poster
NR

In 1978 the Undertones released Teenage Kicks, one of the most perfect and enduring pop records of all time - an adolescent anthem that spoke to teenagers all over the globe. It was the first in a string of hits that created a timeless soundtrack to growing up, making the Undertones one of punk rock's most prolific and popular bands.

Here Comes the Summer: The Undertones Story

2012

Requiem for Detroit? poster
6.4

A look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement.

Requiem for Detroit?

2010

Series credits

Behind the camera

Earth Girls Are Easy poster
5.6

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.

Earth Girls Are Easy

1988

Absolute Beginners poster
5.5

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

Absolute Beginners

1986

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten poster
7.3

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.

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

2007

Bullet poster
6.2

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.

Bullet

1996

The Filth and the Fury poster
6.9

Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale--including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).

The Filth and the Fury

2000

The Filth and the Fury poster
6.9

Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale--including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).

The Filth and the Fury

2000

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan poster
8.0

A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that combines unseen archive footage from the band and MacGowan’s family with original animations.

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

2020

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan poster
8.0

A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that combines unseen archive footage from the band and MacGowan’s family with original animations.

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

2020

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan poster
8.0

A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that combines unseen archive footage from the band and MacGowan’s family with original animations.

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

2020

Aria poster
5.5

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

Aria

1987

Aria poster
5.5

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

Aria

1987

London: The Modern Babylon poster
6.4

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

London: The Modern Babylon

2012

London: The Modern Babylon poster
6.4

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

London: The Modern Babylon

2012

London: The Modern Babylon poster
6.4

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

London: The Modern Babylon

2012

The Comic Strip poster
8.0

A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

The Comic Strip

1981

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle poster
6.4

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

1980

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle poster
6.4

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

1980

Pandaemonium poster
5.0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.

Pandaemonium

2001

I Am Curious Johnny poster
7.0

Johnny Pigozzi—photographer, heir, and legendary collector—pioneered the celebrity selfie in the 1970s, built an elite social network, and assembled the world's best contemporary African art collection.

I Am Curious Johnny

2025

Ibiza: The Silent Movie poster
6.0

This unique and innovative project provides a compelling audiovisual journey into 2,000 years of Ibiza’s bohemian soul. The film captures Temple’s iconic style and boasts a soundtrack curated by world renowned artist Fatboy Slim, including his smash hits RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW; EAT SLEEP RAVE REPEAT as well as legendary tracks from artists including Ultra Nate, Cream, Brian Eno, The Dandy Warhols, The Sex Pistols and more.

Ibiza: The Silent Movie

2019

Ibiza: The Silent Movie poster
6.0

This unique and innovative project provides a compelling audiovisual journey into 2,000 years of Ibiza’s bohemian soul. The film captures Temple’s iconic style and boasts a soundtrack curated by world renowned artist Fatboy Slim, including his smash hits RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW; EAT SLEEP RAVE REPEAT as well as legendary tracks from artists including Ultra Nate, Cream, Brian Eno, The Dandy Warhols, The Sex Pistols and more.

Ibiza: The Silent Movie

2019

Ibiza: The Silent Movie poster
6.0

This unique and innovative project provides a compelling audiovisual journey into 2,000 years of Ibiza’s bohemian soul. The film captures Temple’s iconic style and boasts a soundtrack curated by world renowned artist Fatboy Slim, including his smash hits RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW; EAT SLEEP RAVE REPEAT as well as legendary tracks from artists including Ultra Nate, Cream, Brian Eno, The Dandy Warhols, The Sex Pistols and more.

Ibiza: The Silent Movie

2019

David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean poster
7.6

Jazzin' for Blue Jean is a 20-minute short film featuring David Bowie and directed by Julien Temple. It was created to promote Bowie's single "Blue Jean" in 1984 and released as a video single. The film depicts the adventures of the socially incompetent Vic (played by Bowie) as he tries to win the affections of a beautiful girl by claiming to personally know her favorite rock star, Screaming Lord Byron (also played by Bowie).

David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean

1984

David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean poster
7.6

Jazzin' for Blue Jean is a 20-minute short film featuring David Bowie and directed by Julien Temple. It was created to promote Bowie's single "Blue Jean" in 1984 and released as a video single. The film depicts the adventures of the socially incompetent Vic (played by Bowie) as he tries to win the affections of a beautiful girl by claiming to personally know her favorite rock star, Screaming Lord Byron (also played by Bowie).

David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean

1984

Vigo poster
5.4

Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.

Vigo

1998

Vigo poster
5.4

Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.

Vigo

1998

Habaneros poster
8.0

A brief history of the Cuban capital of Havana, backed by a vibrant soundtrack of son cubano, salsa, jazz, rumba, mambo and hip hop. Drawing on archive footage, animations, movie excerpts and interviews with Havana residents, eyewitnesses and experts, Habaneros runs through key moments in the city’s modern history, from the abolition of slavery at the end of the 19th century to the Spanish–American War, and from the dictatorship of General Batista to the revolution of Fidel Castro. The film concludes by wondering what the future holds. Many Havana locals are encouraged by President Obama’s relaxation of sanctions, but much uncertainty remains.

Habaneros

2017

Running Out of Luck poster
5.6

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

Running Out of Luck

1987

Running Out of Luck poster
5.6

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

Running Out of Luck

1987

Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols poster
NR

Special 35th anniversary edition CD/DVD box set of "Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols". Includes: Riverboat Party (Queen Elizabeth River Boat, The River Thames, London, June 7th 1977) / Happy House Stockholm (Sweden, July 28th 1977) / Winter Gardens (Penzance, Cornwall, September 1st, 1977 (S.P.O.T.S. Tour)) / Promo Videos / Interviews

Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols

2012

David Bowie: Best of Bowie poster
7.1

Disc 1: Oh. You Pretty Things, Queen Bitch), Five Years, Starman, John I'm Only Dancing, The Jean Genie, Space Oddity, Drive-in Saturday, Life on Mars?, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, Young Americans, Be My Wife, "Heroes," Boys Keep Swinging, D.J., Look Back in Anger, Ashes to Ashes, Fashion, Wild Is the Wind, Let's Dance, China Girl, Modern Love, Cat People (Putting Out Fire), Blue Jean, Loving the Alien, Dancing in the Street (with Mick Jagger) Disc 2: Absolute Beginners, Underground, As the World Falls Down, Day-In Day-Out, Time Will Crawl, Never Let Me Down, Fame '90, Jump They Say, Black Tie White Noise, Miracle Goodnight, Buddha of Suburbia, The Heart's Filthy Lesson, Strangers When We Meet, Hallo Spaceboy, Little Wonder, Dead Man Walking, Seven Years in Tibet, I'm Afraid of Americans, Thursday's Child and Survive.

David Bowie: Best of Bowie

2002

Punk Can Take It poster
6.0

Julien Temple's wartime documentary parody "Punk Can Take It" (1979) - a theatrically released promo for the UK Subs, complete with narration by BBC voice-over veteran John Snagge - paints a glorious picture of England in a punk rock "identity crisis". Punk morale was higher than ever before. Punks were fused together not by fear, but by a surging spirit of revenge, immortality, and the courage never to submit or yield. This proved that punk won't go away and that punks themselves are becoming younger and nastier everyday. They have no time for the precarious thrills of nostalgia nor for its trivial rules.

Punk Can Take It

1979

Punk Can Take It poster
6.0

Julien Temple's wartime documentary parody "Punk Can Take It" (1979) - a theatrically released promo for the UK Subs, complete with narration by BBC voice-over veteran John Snagge - paints a glorious picture of England in a punk rock "identity crisis". Punk morale was higher than ever before. Punks were fused together not by fear, but by a surging spirit of revenge, immortality, and the courage never to submit or yield. This proved that punk won't go away and that punks themselves are becoming younger and nastier everyday. They have no time for the precarious thrills of nostalgia nor for its trivial rules.

Punk Can Take It

1979

The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max poster
7.3

A filming of the 1990 Rolling Stones "Steel Wheels" concert that traveled Europe. This was filmed in the IMAX process, which allows the film to be projected in a size ten times the size of a regular 35mm projected image.

The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max

1991

Come Dancing with The Kinks poster
NR

Promotional music video for album of the same name.

Come Dancing with The Kinks

1986

Sex Pistols: There'll Always Be an England poster
6.0

There'll Always Be an England' - named after Vera Lynn's stirring intro music - was recorded on Saturday, November 10th and captures the energy and excitement of the band and the crowd. The whole of the classic 'Never Mind The Bollocks' album is performed, together with a mixture Pistols cover versions, b-sides and even an impromptu crowd sing-along of 'I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside'.

Sex Pistols: There'll Always Be an England

2008

Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols poster
8.0

Director Julien Temple presents a unique insight into the tradition and transgression of Christmas. Featuring interviews and 70s archive, framing the Sex Pistols’ last UK concert with Sid Vicious, for the children of striking firemen in Huddersfield on Christmas Day 1977.

Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols

2013

Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols poster
8.0

Director Julien Temple presents a unique insight into the tradition and transgression of Christmas. Featuring interviews and 70s archive, framing the Sex Pistols’ last UK concert with Sid Vicious, for the children of striking firemen in Huddersfield on Christmas Day 1977.

Never Mind the Baubles: Xmas '77 with the Sex Pistols

2013

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball poster
6.3

Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

1982

Sade: Life Promise Pride Love poster
NR

The Sade: Life Promise Pride Love DVD is a visual greatest hits compilation spanning the band's career from 1984 to the early 2000s. Originally released as a video and laserdisc in 1993, the definitive DVD version was released on December 12, 2000, featuring 16 beautifully restored music videos and enhanced audio. 1. Your Live is King 2. Smooth Operator 3. Hang on to Your Love 4. Never as Good as the First Time 5. Sweetest Taboo 6. Is it a Crime 7. Paradise 8. Nothing Can Come Between Us 9. Turn my Back 10. Love is Stronger than Pride 11. No Ordinary Love 12. Cherish the Day 13. Kiss of Life 14. Feel no Pain

Sade: Life Promise Pride Love

2001