Pamela Rooke

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Known as Jordan, Seaford born Pamela Rooke was the Vivienne Westwood model, punk performer, band manager and actress credited with helping to create the W10 London punk aesthetic. She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film Sebastiane, and played the lead role in his follow-up film Jubilee as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate, after the drug Amyl Nitrite. She can also be seen in Julien Temple's The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "only anarchists are pretty" T-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." in August 1976 on Tony Wilson's So It Goes Granada TV programme

Most Popular Pamela Rooke Trailers

Total trailers found: 10

Steppin' Out Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Short documentary film on the fashionable nightclubs and the trendy pop culture scenes that were famous in London on the late 70's.

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Trailer (1980)

11 September 1980

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds.

I Swear I Was There Trailer (2001)

31 May 2001

A one-hour documentary narrated by Ralf Little about the Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester which changed the face of music forever.

Jubilee Trailer (1978)

01 February 1978

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

The Filth and the Fury Trailer (2000)

29 March 2000

Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself.

Sebastiane Trailer (1976)

17 December 1976

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs.

Jordan's Dance Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Jubilee.

Nightshift Trailer (1981)

14 August 1981

As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.

The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978 Trailer (1986)

01 June 1986

A compilation of performances by bands taken from his previous TV shows in the late 70's, such as "So It Goes", hosted by Tony Wilson.

Dressing for Pleasure Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

Documentary about fetish clothing scene in 70s Britain.