John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, will host a virtual Q&a session on Facebook Sunday June 7th to mark the digital release of the 2018 documentary about Public Image Ltd., The Public Image Is Rotten, Variety reports.
The livestream event will start at 10 a.m. in the U.K. and 5 a.m. Est. Lydon will be answering questions from fans alongside the film’s director, Tabbert Fiiller, and producer and PiL manager Rambo Stevens.
The Public Image Is Rotten premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017, got a wide...
The livestream event will start at 10 a.m. in the U.K. and 5 a.m. Est. Lydon will be answering questions from fans alongside the film’s director, Tabbert Fiiller, and producer and PiL manager Rambo Stevens.
The Public Image Is Rotten premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017, got a wide...
- 5/14/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
“I’m not a sad sack,” says John Lydon. “The more problems you give me, the better I look.”
The Public Image Ltd. frontman and former “Mr. Johnny Rotten” has been reflecting lately on the last four decades of his career, the time in which he separated himself from the Sex Pistols and became a post-punk pioneer, exploring arty indulgences and mantra-like rock. Over the past eight years, he’s reviewed his life story while participating in interviews for a new documentary, The Public Image Is Rotten. The film offers...
The Public Image Ltd. frontman and former “Mr. Johnny Rotten” has been reflecting lately on the last four decades of his career, the time in which he separated himself from the Sex Pistols and became a post-punk pioneer, exploring arty indulgences and mantra-like rock. Over the past eight years, he’s reviewed his life story while participating in interviews for a new documentary, The Public Image Is Rotten. The film offers...
- 9/21/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The King is gone but not forgotten, this is the story of Johnny Rotten. Abramorama and Verisimilitude are not channeling Neil Young, but they are releasing the documentary film The Public Image Is Rotten in theaters in 2018.
The Public Image Is Rotten tells the story of music icon John Lydon and his pioneering group PiL. Directed by Tabbert Fiiller, The Public Image Is Rotten features in-depth interviews with Lydon, former and current bandmates, as well as Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ad-Rock (Beastie Boys) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) among others, and also features archival performance and interview footage.
The film opens in the United Kingdom beginning with a screening on June 3, 2018, at the Odeon Camden Cinema, and will feature a conversation with Lydon after the screening. Additional screenings in the U.K. during June and July will be announced followed later, with the global roll out of the film...
The Public Image Is Rotten tells the story of music icon John Lydon and his pioneering group PiL. Directed by Tabbert Fiiller, The Public Image Is Rotten features in-depth interviews with Lydon, former and current bandmates, as well as Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ad-Rock (Beastie Boys) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) among others, and also features archival performance and interview footage.
The film opens in the United Kingdom beginning with a screening on June 3, 2018, at the Odeon Camden Cinema, and will feature a conversation with Lydon after the screening. Additional screenings in the U.K. during June and July will be announced followed later, with the global roll out of the film...
- 5/14/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Tabbert Fiiller on John Lydon: "I never thought about that in relation to Annalisa. There's also, like, he was very shy as a child and then, certainly after or during the Sex Pistols…" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Following the world première at the Tribeca Film Festival of The Public Image Is Rotten, shot by Yamit Shimonovitz, director Tabbert Fiiller went with me into the John Lydon style that took us to Comme des Garçons, Julian Schnabel and pajamas, Muriel Spark's The Public Image, John Waters at a PiL concert, and wildlife. Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Moby count PiL as an influence.
John Lydon: "John is so good with words. I was just trying to keep up. We shot every day."
John Lydon's Public Image Ltd. started out as Keith Levene, Jah Wobble, and Jim Walker,...
Following the world première at the Tribeca Film Festival of The Public Image Is Rotten, shot by Yamit Shimonovitz, director Tabbert Fiiller went with me into the John Lydon style that took us to Comme des Garçons, Julian Schnabel and pajamas, Muriel Spark's The Public Image, John Waters at a PiL concert, and wildlife. Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Moby count PiL as an influence.
John Lydon: "John is so good with words. I was just trying to keep up. We shot every day."
John Lydon's Public Image Ltd. started out as Keith Levene, Jah Wobble, and Jim Walker,...
- 5/5/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Blisteringly caustic as ever, John Lydon nevertheless reveals himself as an occasionally sentimental sort in Tabbert Fiiller’s fitfully revelatory and charming documentary, “The Public Image Is Rotten,” screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. Ostensibly a documentary about Lydon’s epochal post-punk band Public Image Ltd., the movie turns to be more a portrait of the man himself. This makes sense, given that the band was a Lydon project from the start and he’s the only member remaining from its 1978 founding.
Continue reading Anger Is Still An Energy In John Lydon Doc ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Anger Is Still An Energy In John Lydon Doc ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 4/27/2017
- by Chris Barsanti
- The Playlist
While his fellow Sex Pistol Sid Vicious went with the tried-and-true path to Rock Myth status, dying early, Johnny Rotten took a different route — ditching the band at the peak of its fame, returning to his birth name to front a new group whose roster rarely stayed the same for long. A cult band that never became a household name or acquired Pistols-level notoriety, his Public Image Ltd is celebrated in Tabbert Fiiller's The Public Image Is Rotten. A serviceable introduction for those with a passing knowledge of the band or none at all, it will be unconvincing for...
- 4/25/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten’s acerbic question to the audience at the end of the Sex Pistols’ disastrous 1978 U.S. tour may have marked the end of that group, but for Lydon himself, this was only the beginning of his musical journey. What came after Lydon and the Sex Pistols’ reinvention of rock music is the fascinating subject of Tabbert Fiiller’s lively documentary The Public Image is Rotten, a film with one of rock’s most enduringly incisive, brutally honest, and sharply funny characters at its center. This film tells the story of the genesis and unending evolution of Lydon’s post-punk, post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd. (or PiL for short), which, in its fusion of punk, dance, reggae,...
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- 4/23/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Director and cast to take part in panel discussion following screening.
Top brass at the 16th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival announced on Wednesday the Closing Night, Galas and Special Screenings, as well as the titles premiering under the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival banner.
The festival, which runs from April 19-30, will close on April 29 with a back-to-back screening of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II to celebrate the film’s 45th anniversary, followed by a panel discussion with director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.
This year’s Galas section includes the world premiere of James Ponsoldt’s thriller The Circle starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.
World premiere Galas selections include Daniel Kaufman’s portrait of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The Bad Boy Story, a documentary celebrating the first 20 years of Bad Boy Entertainment...
Top brass at the 16th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival announced on Wednesday the Closing Night, Galas and Special Screenings, as well as the titles premiering under the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival banner.
The festival, which runs from April 19-30, will close on April 29 with a back-to-back screening of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II to celebrate the film’s 45th anniversary, followed by a panel discussion with director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.
This year’s Galas section includes the world premiere of James Ponsoldt’s thriller The Circle starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.
World premiere Galas selections include Daniel Kaufman’s portrait of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The Bad Boy Story, a documentary celebrating the first 20 years of Bad Boy Entertainment...
- 3/8/2017
- ScreenDaily
Director and cast to take part in panel discussion following screening.
Top brass at the 16th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival announced on Wednesday the Closing Night, Galas and Special Screenings, as well as the titles premiering under the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival banner.
The festival, which runs from April 19-30, will close on April 29 with a back-to-back screening of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II to celebrate the film’s 45th anniversary, followed by a panel discussion with director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.
This year’s Galas section includes the world premiere of James Ponsoldt’s thriller The Circle starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.
World premiere Galas selections include Daniel Kaufman’s portrait of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The Bad Boy Story, a documentary celebrating the first 20 years of Bad Boy Entertainment...
Top brass at the 16th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival announced on Wednesday the Closing Night, Galas and Special Screenings, as well as the titles premiering under the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival banner.
The festival, which runs from April 19-30, will close on April 29 with a back-to-back screening of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II to celebrate the film’s 45th anniversary, followed by a panel discussion with director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.
This year’s Galas section includes the world premiere of James Ponsoldt’s thriller The Circle starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.
World premiere Galas selections include Daniel Kaufman’s portrait of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The Bad Boy Story, a documentary celebrating the first 20 years of Bad Boy Entertainment...
- 3/8/2017
- ScreenDaily
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