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Oil City Confidential (2009)

Director: Julien Temple

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Julien Temple turns his camera on pub-rock legends Dr Feelgood.

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From Time Out Online

Not a holier-than-thou doc about fossil fuels but Julien ‘The Filth and The Fury’ Temple’s third inspection of 1970s British music culture. We’ve had The Sex Pistols and Joe Strummer; now it’s the turn of Dr Feelgood, a hard-bangin rhythm’n’blues group that must count as Canvey Island’s most unlikely export. Guitarist and professional nutter Wilko Johnson takes us round the island and the group’s trajectory from pub players to relentlessly touring chart-toppers; the other surviving Feelgoods chat away over beer and pool, and lead singer Lee Brilleaux, dead at 42, joins in via archive footage. It’s an extraordinary story, spoilt slightly by Temple overdoing the whacky visual commentary: we don’t need a clip of ‘Brighton Rock’ every time the Feelgoods mention anything remotely feelbad

Author: Nina Caplan 2009-10-08 11:57:30

Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009

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Oil City Confidential
BFI 53rd London Fim Festival. 14-29 Oct 2009

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Director: Julien Temple

Genre(s): Documentaries

Duration: 106 mins


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