Oil City Confidential (2-DVD)
Oil City is 100% Pure Below Sea Level, Canvey Island Noir
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: TV-Y
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 27, 2019
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: Cadiz Music
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dr. Feelgood | |
Directed by | Julien Temple |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Authentic feel to this good-looking biopic of the ill-fated band.
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Empire Magazine
Julien Temple's rockumentary Oil City Confidential looks like a series of Martin Parr photographs of the British by the seaside, and then segues into thrashing guitars on the Seventies New York stage.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
Julian Temple's messy, whimsical look at the rise and fall of the British pub rock band Dr Feelgood packs a bigger punch than expected.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 3/5 --
Temple's constant additions of archive and fictive footage to the mix can become a bit tiring, and splicing in movie scenes to suggest the Feelgood story has film noir connotations is not entirely successful.
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Metro (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
A clearly affectionate homage to the Canvey Island foursome whose incendiary R&B paved the way for punk.
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Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
I don't think [Julien Temple's] ever made a film as good, and purely insightful as this one.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
A rugged piece of pulp entertainment charting the unlikely rise of UK blues outfit Dr Feelgood.
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Product Description:
Outside of the United Kingdom, only the most obsessive music fans were aware of what was known as "Pub Rock" during its brief heyday in the early to mid-1970s. But in England, Pub Rock was a important precursor to the punk and new wave scene; the Pub bands rejected the growing pretension of glam and progressive rock, and instead embraced a back-to-basics sound rooted in stripped down R&B and country rock. The toughest of the Pub Rock bands was Dr. Feelgood, a quartet whose revved-up, no-frills music was more tuneful and celebratory than punk but communicated much of the same swagger and sense of menace. Dr. Feelgood -- Lee Brilleaux on vocals and harmonica, Wilko Johnson on guitar, Sparko (aka John B. Sparkes) on bass and The Big Figure (aka John Martin) on drums -- never earned more than a tiny cult following in the United States, but for a spell they were a major draw in the UK, and their wild rags to riches to rags again story is brought to the screen in OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL, a documentary by Julian Temple that features extensive interviews with the surviving members of the band (Brilleaux died in 1994) and live footage of the group in their prime. OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL received its world premiere at the 2009 BFI London Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 18,329
- UPC: 844493061687
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