The Smiths: The Complete Picture

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.

• Release date
• December 7, 1992
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Music
• Director
• Derek Jarman

Cast

Morrissey himself Johnny Marr himself Andy Rourke himself Mike Joyce himself

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Dale Hibbert himself Craig Gannon himself