33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
JULIEN TEMPLE - MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH

THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON

THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON
by Julien Temple
Country: UK
Year: 2015
Duration: 90'


After being diagnosed with a terminal illness in 2013, Wilko Johnson, guitarist for Dr Feelgood and for the Blockheds, decides to embark on a farewell tour. Spurred by his irresistible energy, his love for music and life, with his inseparable Fender Stratocaster at his side to accompany him into his explosive performances.

Biography

film director

Julien Temple

Julien Temple (London, UK, 1953) studied filmmaking at the National Film and Television School. He debuted with the short Sex Pistols Number 1 (1977), followed by the punk culture documentary The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (1980). He directed several music videos, many feature films (including Absolute Beginners, 1986; and Earth Girls Are Easy, 1988), and music documentaries (such as The Filth and the Fury, 2000; and Glastonbury, 2006). He participated at the Torino Film Festival on multiple occasions, presenting the documentaries Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007), Oil City Confidential (2009), Requiem for Detroit? (2010), London - The Modern Babylon (2012), The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015). In 2014 he received the Gran Premio Torino.

FILMOGRAFIA

Sex Pistols Number 1 (coregia/codirector John Tiberi, cm, doc., 1977), The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (La grande truffa del rock’n’roll, 1980), Absolute Beginners (1986), Earth Girls Are Easy (Le ragazze della terra sono facili, 1988), Vigo (Vigo, passione per la vita, 1998), The Filth and the Fury (Sex Pistols - Oscenità e furore, doc., 2000), Glastonbury (doc., 2006), Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Il futuro non è scritto - Joe Strummer, doc., 2007), Oil City Confidential (doc., 2009), Requiem for Detroit? (doc., 2010), London - The Modern Babylon (doc., 2012), Rio 50 Degrees (doc., 2014), The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (doc., 2015), My Life Story (doc., 2017).

Declaration

film director

“Wilco has always struck me in a strange way like William Blake, who was famously a very Cockney guy, who spoke like Wilko, so they say, but had this visionary connection with the world around him and being alive. Similarly, Wilko was able to describe how he could see everything in a very revelatory way. That’s why I called it The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson. It’s like the medieval saints when they have the revelation of God and eternity, but it’s in the head of an atheist so it’s a very different thing.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto/director, story
Julien Temple
fotografia/cinematography
Steve Organ
montaggio/film editing
Caroline Richards
musica/music
Chantelle Woodnut, Maggie Rodwell
suono/sound
Ben Young
interpreti/cast
Wilko Johnson, Roger Daltrey
produttori/producers
Richard Conway, Andrew Curtis, Julien Temple
produzione/production
Essential Arts Entertainment, Nitrate Film
coproduttore/coproducer
Jim Gottlieb


contatti/contacts
Moviehouse Entertainment
Gary Phillips
gary.phillips@moviehouseent.com
www.moviehouseent.com
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