The Smiths: The Complete Picture

Overview

Thirteen Smiths' recordings, half of them in a club with a live audience. These alternate with five rock videos, two directed by Derek Jarman (Panic and Ask), two by Tim Broad (Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me...), and one by Paula Grief and Richard Levine (How Soon Is Now?). It concludes with Jarman's short film, "The Queen Is Dead," with a three-song soundtrack. The rock videos, particularly Jarman's, are filled with multiple and superimposed images, changing tints, and little narrative coherence; they get their pace from the music's rhythm. Androgyny, dancing children, belching smokestacks, graffiti, angry young men, a waif in a cap: collages of modern alienation.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 7, 1992

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Cast

Morrissey,Johnny Marr,Andy Rourke,Mike Joyce,Dale Hibbert,Craig Gannon

Director

Derek Jarman,Tim Broad,Paula Grief

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0271196