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Who Killed the KLF? (2021)

Documentary | 88 minutes
3,61 46 votes

Genre: Documentary / Music

Duration: 88 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Chris Atkins

Stars: Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold and Alan Moore

IMDb score: 7,2 (1.215)

Releasedate: 5 October 2023

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Who Killed the KLF? plot

Documentary about the music duo The KLF. Between 1988 and 1992, the duo rose to world fame with No. 1 hits all over the world. Wanting to ridicule the established order, Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond sampled the music of The Beatles and Abba and published a book, 'The Manual'. To poke fun at performance art, The KLF set fire to £1 million cash and then disappeared from the public scene. Cauty and Drummond themselves refused to participate in this documentary, but Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Alan Moore and others, among others, agreed to speak on camera.

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Filmkriebel

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Really a fascinating documentary about the KLF. I was a big fan of this duo in 1991 when house culture started to break through. 3AM Eternal and What Time is Love? Everyone knows that. However, everything in the lives of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty is the result of a personal statement against the established orders and laws. It's not easy to get into the mind of these two eccentrics. Their way of life stems from the principles of an esoteric sect, but their aberrant behavior led them to live more and more in their own bizarre reality, in which media stunts had become a sport.

After their rather unintended success with the KLF, they completely disappeared from the picture... or not completely when they burned their fortune of 1 million pounds a few years later and turned it into a film they made about all over the UK. The movie was just two weirdos throwing banknotes into a fire for an hour. Just about the dumbest thing you can do in your life. Afterwards you may wonder whether everything they have ever done (besides their KLF success) has had any sense or benefit for themselves and for others. Personally, I don't understand the persistence of some people to rebel against everything and everyone just to rebel. There is nothing rational or constructive behind those actions. I therefore found it incomprehensible that they were furious with their Brit Award for their career, an award that they later buried in Stonehenge. Was funny this. This documentary will definitely stay with me.

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mrklm

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Jimi Cauty and Bill Drummond combined the theme music from Dr Who with the drums from Gary Glitter's 'Rock and Roll Part 1', added some samples and scored a mega hit under the name 'The Timelords' with 'Doctorin' the Tardis'. Drummond then wrote the book 'The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)'. The rebellious Drummonds and Cauty took the world by storm in the following years as 'The KLF' with hits like “What Time Is Love” and “Justified and Ancient” before they ended their project in a bizarre way and seemed to be off the face of the earth disappeared. Through archive footage and reconstructions (with Tim Ireland as Jimi Cauty and Luke Ireland as Bill Drummond), we discover the full story behind this recalcitrant duo who wanted to shake the world of art to its very foundations. More than 25 years later, the story is at least as relevant as it was then and it is certainly fascinating.

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Woland

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Very entertaining documentary about a 'band' that I remember from my younger days, from the crazy and spectacular video clips. Even though it made some impression on my youthful self, it's not really my thing musically speaking. But the story surrounding these two very unruly characters and the bizarre stunts they perform still makes it very entertaining. Perhaps even better than the documentary is the book 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds' by John Higgs, which I also read a while ago, and in which I already came across most of the stories. But this documentary also shows enough of their bizarre legacy, and in some cases it is also nice to see it visually supported - for example when they flew a group of journalists to a location unknown to them to conduct a bizarre pagan rite, their trip to Sweden to burn down the the remaining copies of their album in front of ABBA's office and of course their most famous stunts - the disbanding the band at an awards ceremony by performing with a grindcore band, shooting machine guns with blanks into the audience, dumping a dead sheep at the record label and the infamous burning of a million pounds.[ /spoiler] Enough material for a great documentary, even if you have nothing to do with the band, and this does not disappoint.

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