Bruce Springsteen

..went to see him last night at the O2 and I'm still wondering what I can write about it - but I like this review

The Future Is Unwritten - Review

I saw this documentary about Joe Strummer earlier this year at a preview screening which was followed by a question and answer session with the director Julian Temple.

It is an excellent documentary which stands up as both a brilliant portrayal of Strummer's life and as a brilliant piece of film making. Using a mixture of archive footage and commentaries by Strummer's friends and contemporaries the film shows Strummer's awkwardness and his contradictions - as well as his passions and his obsessive idealism. It's about as vivid a portrayal of a musician as I have seen in a documentary and, as was clear in Temple's comments after the screening, it was a film that was made with huge affection for its subject matter.

It's brilliant.

Here's the trailer