Julien Temple
Julien Temple is a
British film director. His first film was a documentary about the
Sex Pistols,
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle a topic he later returned to in his documentary
The Filth and the Fury. He has also directed
Absolute Beginners, a
1984 musical set against the backdrop of
racism in late
1950s London and the birth of the
Mod sensibility, starring Patsy Kensit,
David Bowie,
Sade and Anita Morris, and
Pandemonium a critically acclaimed
2001 film about the friendship between
Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
William Wordsworth.
