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Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

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Directed by Julien Temple
Produced by Johnny Depp, Julien Temple, Stephen Malit, and Stephen Deuters
Written by Julien Temple
With: Shane MacGowan, Johnny Depp, Siobhan MacGowan, Maurice MacGowan, Victoria Mary Clarke, Gerry Adams, Ann Scanlon, Bobby Gillespie, and Terry Edwards
Cinematography: Steve Organ
Editing: Caroline Richards
Music: Jc Carroll and Jocelyn Campbell
Runtime: 124 min
Release Date: 04 December 2020
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Color: Color
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Temple's pastiche approach to documentary—blending many cinematic modalities, personal and political themes, exploring Irish history and music history and how entwined the two are—is fitting for this biographical doc about the tortured Irish poet and lead singer of the Pogues, but the stylistic overload is ultimately exhausting.