Cadiz Music, with sales and distribution expertise provided
by MVD Entertainment Group, will be bringing a double-disc DVD edition of
documentary filmmaker Phil Strongman’s Anarchy! McLaren Westwood Gang.
The street date will be Friday, August 4.
Punk Rock some 40-years on and the story of a most unlikely
member of the vanguard of that music revolution is the subject of Strongman’s
film. The individual in question is Malcolm
McLaren, a self-style promoter (among other eclectic pursuits) who had the
lucky happenstance of being in the right place at the right time to unite
Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious and propel the Sex Pistols to stardom in
1977. McLaren’s promotional stunt
during the Silver Jubilee celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign got the
ball rolling!
Within two years the Sex Pistols would go from obscurity to
stardom to the death of Sid Vicious (and Nancy would follow). Legal battles would drag on for another
decade, but McLaren was on to something and guided more groups to stardom.
Of note, The Criterion Collection has a new 4K restoration
of director Alex Cox’s Sid & Nancy prepped for release
as DVD and Blu-ray edition on Aug. 22, so Cadiz and MVD Entertainment Group are
spot-on in their time here).
The other half of Strongman’s film title, “Westwood,” refers
to Vivienne Westwood,
McLaren’s partner and successful fashion designer, who saw the future of Punk
Rock and rode the wave to international stardom.
Strongman’s
presentation of Anarchy! McLaren Westwood Gang
blends his footage from the period featuring McLaren, which are combined with
interviews (reminiscences) with the likes of Adam Ant, Boy George, writer Stuart
Christie and visual design artist Nick Egan.
Strongman pack some surreal interludes in the proceedings as well …
strange, but then so was the late Malcolm McLaren!
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