Oil City Confidential
Oil City is 100% Pure Below Sea Level, Canvey Island Noir
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 5, 2013
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Cadiz Recording Co.
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Julien Temple | |
Subject: | Dr. Feelgood |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
A rugged piece of pulp entertainment charting the unlikely rise of UK blues outfit Dr Feelgood.
Little White Lies
Rating: 4/5 --
The splicing of old home videos, archive footage and new interviews is handled with real finesse, and in the band's mad-eyed, quixotic guitarist Wilco Johnson, the film has a tirelessly charismatic ringmaster.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
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: 4/5 --
An entertaining and engaging rock-doc that can be enjoyed even if you're not a fan of the music.
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Shadows on the Wall
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: 4/5 --
It's Wilko's peremptory, offbeat monologues that provide Oil City Confidential with its through-line and several of its funniest moments, not least when he describes the clouds and flames of the Shell Haven Refinery as "Miltonic"
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Uncut Magazine [UK]
Rating: 3/5 --
Temple tries his best to make the story lively and interesting (even embarking on a brief history of the Thames estuary), but Dr Feelgood remains an R&B band of limited appeal, and Oil City Confidential won't create many new converts.
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Radio Times
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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- UPC: 844493061250
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