Julien Temple (born 26 November 1953) is a British film, documentary and music video director.

[3] He grew up with little interest in film until, when a student at Cambridge, he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo.

The Great Rock And Roll Swindle tells of the rise of The Sex Pistols, apparently as manipulated by McLaren, and how he had shaped the band throughout their short career.

This helped split opinion on the film as, although it was praised for attempting to capture some of the punk scene of the time, it was seen as too skewed towards McLaren's vision.

Compered by Welles himself, the film comprised many short segments about the state of the video industry, both real and imagined, many featuring cameos by celebrities including Mel Brooks, Grace Jones,[4] Ray Davies, and Koo Stark.

The film was a critical success and was seen as setting the record straight in regard to the history of The Sex Pistols.

In November 2007, Temple filmed several of the Sex Pistols' comeback shows at the Brixton Academy in London.

Also, he was referred to by name in The Kinks song Too Hot from their Word of Mouth album: "Julien's on the street today/ Scouting out locations..." In 2011, Temple returned to Glastonbury to further document the legendary festival.

The resulting 75-minute film, titled "Glastonbury After Hours: Glastopia", was shot on location in the Shangri-La, Arcadia, the Unfair Ground, Strummerville, Block 9 and the Common areas.

On 4 March 2013, it was announced that Jesse L. Martin would replace Lenny Kravitz as Marvin Gaye in Sexual Healing, directed by Temple, and produced by Vassal Benton and Fred Bestall.

[10][11] With approximately 70% of the film completed[12] and only three weeks to go on a planned nine-and-a-half-week shoot, production was stopped on the biopic, primarily due to financial problems.