CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN
Thursday, February 29 • 9:35 PM • T1
Documentary | Award Winner
Generously sponsored by Brian Maney and Barbara Stauffer
A very special screening of Julien Temple's love letter to the incredible life of Shane MacGowan, the inimitable vocalist best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy of punk rock.
In Memoriam: Shane MacGowan (1957—2023)
Credits
Director and Screenwriter: Julien Temple
Producers: Julien Temple, Johnny Depp, Stephen Deuters, and Stephen Malit
Cast: Shane MacGowan, Siobhan MacGowan, Therese MacGowan, Gerry Adams, Johnny Depp, Bobby Gillespie, Maurice MacGowan, Victoria Mary Clarke, Ann Scanlon, Bono, Camille O'Sullivan, Damien Dempsey, Sinéad O'Connor, Cerys Matthews, Finbar Furey, Lankum, Lisa O'Neill, Nick Cave, Michael D. Higgins
Ireland, 2020, color, 124 min. NOT RATED.
Awards
Special Prize of the Jury - San Sebastian International Film Fest 2020
Reviews
"Julian Temple's portrait of the Pogues singer is a rambling, messy, wild, sad and inspirational doc — in other words, a fine tribute to its subject"--David Fear, Rolling Stone, December 2020
"Temple employs what feel like hundreds of vintage film clips to illustrate voiceover bits, along with funny, luridly colorful animations and freshly filmed, black-and-white footage of pastoral Irish village life in such gorgeously silver tones, they feel like a vision of the afterlife."--Chris Willman, Variety, October, 2020
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Julien Temple, born in Kensington, London, is a British film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury. He grew up with little interest in film until, when a student at Cambridge, he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976, led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols, leading him to document many of their early gigs.
