Julien Temple is a British film director. His first film was a documentary about the Sex Pistols, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle a topic he later returned to in his documentary The Filth and the Fury. He has also directed Absolute Beginners, a 1984 musical set against the backdrop of racism in late 1950s London and the birth of the Mod sensibility, starring Patsy Kensit, David Bowie,Sade and Anita Morris, and Pandemonium a critically acclaimed 2001 film about the friendship between Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
