Pamela Rooke
Biography: Known as Jordan, Seaford born Pamela Rooke was the Vivienne Westwood model, punk performer, band manager and actress credited with helping to create the W10 London punk aesthetic. She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film Sebastiane, and played the lead role in his follow-up film Jubilee as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate, after the drug Amyl Nitrite. She can also be seen in Julien Temple's The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "only anarchists are pretty" T-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." in August 1976 on Tony Wilson's So It Goes Granada TV programme
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 23, 1955
Deathday: April 03, 2022
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Jubilee
1978-02-01
Jubilee
Overview: Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
1980-09-11
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Overview: A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."
Genres: Comedy Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-11
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I Swear I Was There
2001-05-31
I Swear I Was There
Overview: A one-hour documentary narrated by Ralf Little about the Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester which changed the face of music forever.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-31
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Nightshift
1981-01-01
Nightshift
Overview: It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask. Like the camera, she gazes steadily, both silent spectator and vicarious participant in the fantasies played out by the hotel's transient guests. As the night progresses, she answers a phone, hands over a key; guests pass back and forth gradually taking on a dream-like presence. She continues to work and, when morning comes, she leaves, her nightshift over. 'NIGHTSHIFT shows what film can do if the conventional pace of narrative is slowed down and montage diminished. It is not a new idea, of course, but the way it is done here is both absorbing to look at and satisfying from the moral point of view.' (Jill Forbes, Monthly Film Bulletin)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Dressing for Pleasure
1977-01-01
Dressing for Pleasure
Overview: Documentary about fetish clothing scene in 70s Britain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Jordan's Dance
1977-01-01
Jordan's Dance
Overview: This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Jubilee. Jarman often showed his films silent or with different musical accompaniment - one of Jarman's suggestions was Brahms' "Violin Concerto."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Sebastiane
1976-12-17
Sebastiane
Overview: Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: la
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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The Filth and the Fury
2000-03-29
The Filth and the Fury
Overview: Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale--including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-29
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