Julien Temple

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Julien Temple (2010)

Julien Andrew Temple (born November 26, 1953 in London ) is a British film director. He is particularly known for his music films and videos.

Life

Temple was born in the London borough of Kensington, the son of Landon Temple, who ran the travel company Progressive Tours. His sister is the politician Nina Temple. He briefly attended St. Marylebone High School and moved from there to the William Ellis Comprehensive School and later studied at King's College , Cambridge . In his school days he showed little interest in film until he discovered the works of the French anarchist director Jean Vigo as a student in Cambridge .

Julien Temple is married to producer Amanda Temple and has three children, two sons Leo and Felix, and daughter Juno , who works as an actress.

Career

Temple's first work was a short documentary called Sex Pistols Number 1 , which was intended to show the band's rise from 1976 to 1977 in a series of short clips from television interviews and gigs. This not only led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols and soon to another documentary The Great Rock & Roll Swindle. He witnessed the falling out of the band members Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious with their manager Malcolm McLaren , as a result of which they had left the band. The Great Rock & Roll Swindle tells of the rise of the Sex Pistols , who were heavily influenced by McLaren during their short career. Many of the facts set out by McLaren in the film have been disputed by John Lydon, who accused him of using the film specifically to attack him personally. The objectivity of the documentation is doubtful, since it was viewed in a distorted manner in the direction of McLaren's views. But that doesn't change the fact that Temple managed to capture numerous punk scenes of the time, and his mix of animated scenes, documentary material and specially recorded material received widespread recognition. This helped Temple advance his career.

In 1983 Temple made a film for the BBC series Arena called It's All True , named after the unfinished Orson Welles film from 1942. Here he processed both real and imaginary scenes with many cameos from celebrities such as Mel Brooks , Grace Jones , Ray Davies and Koo Stark . This was followed by Temple's next film in 1984, the short film Jazzin 'for Blue Jean with David Bowie . Temple became more and more successful over the years as a director of music videos, including productions with well-known bands such as the Kinks , The Rolling Stones , David Bowie and many other British artists, for whom these videos were in part groundbreaking for their careers when they were on the new MTV Channel were sent.

In 1986 Temple received his first major directorial work for Absolute Beginners , the film version of Colin MacInnes' book Absolute Beginners . The film was received critically in the UK as it was a musical rather than a direct adaptation of the book, which was seen as a flaw. The film was not financially successful and partly responsible for the bankruptcy of the Goldcrest Films company . As Temple was personally blamed for the failure, he left the UK and went to the United States, where he saw the film Zebo, the Third from the Center of the Stars, and a series of music videos for artists such as Duran Duran , Janet Jackson , Neil Young and Tom Petty was offered.

In the late 1990s, Temple returned to the UK, where he continued to make films and music videos. Vigo: Passion for Life (1998) tells of the passionate relationship between French filmmaker Jean Vigo and his wife Lydou, who both suffered from tuberculosis. The film was not received well. A reviewer on Sight & Sound commented that the film "while absolutely true to the facts, is absolutely terrible".

This was followed in 2001 by the film Pandæmonium, which has the friendship between the romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as its theme and was highly praised by critics, and The Filth and the Fury , another documentary about the Sex Pistols . This time the film was made in collaboration with all surviving musicians and told the story of the band from their point of view. This film mixed older and newly recorded material and interviews, as well as scenes taken from The Great Rock and Roll Swindle .

Between 2002 and 2005 Temple had completed a documentary about the Glastonbury Festival . To do this, he had to shoot film material during the festival and view the large amount of archive material as well as material sent in by fans of the festival. It was released in the UK in April 2006. In 2007, a film about his friend's life followed, entitled Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten .

In June 2008, Temple shot three concerts for Madness at the Hackney Empire. These concerts were previews of the band's upcoming album, The Liberty Of Norton Folgate . In 2009 Temple made the third film in his punk trilogy Oil City Confidential , in which Canvey Island legends Dr. Feelgood and an anthem to the Autostadt entitled Requiem For Detroit were celebrated. This was followed by other documentaries such as London - The Modern Babylon , Rio 50 Degrees , The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson , The Strypes: Best Thing Since Cavan , Keith Richards : The Origin of the Species , and Habaneros , some of which were made as a TV series between 2010 and were broadcast in 2018.

Films (selection)

Music videos (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1987: Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards 1987
  • 1999: Verona Love Screens Film Festival, for Vigo (via Jean Vigo )
  • 2000: São Paulo International Film Festival, for The Filth and the Fury
  • 2001: Emden International Film Festival, for Pandæmonium
  • 2002: Fantasporto , award for his life's work

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sundance star Juno Temple to play Princess Margaret in royal film at theguardian.com, accessed March 7, 2019.
  2. ↑ Biography at screenonline.org, accessed on March 7, 2019.
  3. ↑ Arena: It's All True at paleycenter.org, accessed March 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ Vigo Passion for Life at old.bfi.org, accessed March 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ Drama & Soaps at itv.com, accessed March 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Temple, Julien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Temple, Julien Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH London