ANARCHY! - Mclaren Westwood Gang Movie Boxset

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of Punk, the acclaimed but rarely seen ANARCHY! McLaren Westwood Gang film is being re-released in a numbered limited edition box set of 500 copies only and comes in a large size 12"x12" box with lift-off lid featuring all original artwork by Chris Musto. . 

Boxset contents 

- DVD of the movie (141 minutes - NTSC 0)
- a 12 inch Red & Black Splatter Vinyl soundtrack album with music & dialogue
- Soundtrack CD
- Exclusive Jamie Reid Art Print
- Anarchy Shot Glass
- Anarchy tote bag
- 3 Badges
- 2 Posters
- Embroidered Patch
- 3 Photos
- A certificate numbered & signed by director Phil Strongman
- A Booklet with a chapter from the forthcoming Acme BOY book
- QR code for download/streaming of the movie

The film's director, Phil Strongman, was at the heart of the punk movement in 1976 and ’77, working at Acme Attractions and then BOY while designing and selling t-shirts in the Kings Road and attending gigs nightly. He went on to chronicle the period in the successful book, Pretty Vacant - A History of Punk.

Peter Bradshaw, in The Guardian, described the ANARCHY! film as 'Interesting...shrewd' while Kieran Cashell of LIT hailed it as 'a masterpiece'. However, ANARCHY! McLaren Westwood Gang is about so much more than the Punk phenomenon and explores the notion of Malcolm McLaren as the great architect of British Punk. The film includes some serious in-depth interviews with McLaren - by turns outrageous, thoughtful and amusing - 
interviews which were conducted in Paris and London as well as some stunning unseen footage about his childhood, his 1960's student activism, meeting with Vivienne Westwood and the Kings Road shops. It focuses on his key role in Punk 'anti-fashion' and the Sex Pistols plus various other scenes. 

It is, essentially, three films in one: it's a history of European Anarchism; a biog of McLaren and a compelling exposé of the real birth of the Sex Pistols (with contributions from Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock and Paul Cook plus members of The Clash, 101ers, Bow Wow Wow as well as Jordan, Adam Ant, Boy George, Don Letts, Tony Wilson, Tracey Emin, Stuart Christie, Nick Egan, Ray Stevenson, Sophie Richmond, John ‘Boogie’ Tiberi, Leigh Gorman, Fred Vermorel, Marco Pirroni, Ben Westwood, Vivienne Westwood etc). 

ANARCHY! McLaren Westwood Gang is an authentic and remarkable document of that febrile moment in time that left such a long shadow over modern culture. Described by Dominic Wells of Time Out as 'fascinating', and as 'brilliant' by Fiona Cartledge of SOTT, 'this really is unmissable'. ‘The Apocalypse Now of art documentaries!’ Michael Wearing, producer Edge of Darkness. 'Fascinating' Wendy Ide, The Observer. ’Punk Rock’s Molotov cocktail’ Dangerous Minds. ‘Epic documentary… fascinating footage’ Vive Le Rock.