Mon, 11 January 2010  The venue's for the premiere of the new Julien Temple film, Oil City Confidential have been announced. The event takes place in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on Tuesday 2 February and starts at 7:45pm with the film being shown first and then followed by a live set by Wilko Johnson and his band with special guest Alison Moyet beamed live by satelite from Koko in London. Oil City Confidential is the last film in Julien Temple's trilogy on British music of the 1970s. It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in The Filth & The Fury and Joe Strummer in The Future Is Unwritten. Rather than being standard 'rockumentaries', Julien uses the music as a prism through which he examines the social and cultural conditions of the times. The films share his characteristic cinematic language - an irreverent and anarchic style of montage of archive and fictive footage, which he pioneered in The Great Rock & Roll Swindle. The Sex Pistols' and Joe Strummer's roles are well known, but Dr Feelgood, who are the subject of Oil City Confidential, played a vital role in creating those conditions for that cultural explosion and is a story that is as yet untold. Oil City Confidential is a film noir feature length documentary and about Dr Feelgood; it's the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early '70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll and left all that came before a burnt-out ruin, four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten’s anti-Christ. Cannibalising the visual flotsam and jetsam of our society, welding into an emotionally engaging and humorous whole, Oil City Confidential sets out to explore this unique time, place and social landscape - all of which was responsible for shaping the identity of the band and which, more than any other, defined the strange cultural vacuum which existed before the coming of punk rock. Ireland Castlebar - Mayo Movie World Dublin - Vue Dublin Dundrum - Movies@Dundrum Dungarvan - SGC Dungarvan Swords - Movies@Swords UK Aberystwth - Aberystwth Arts Centre Birmingham - Vue Birmingham Bristol - Vue Bristol Cribbs Causeway Camberley - Vue Camberley Cambridge - Vue Cambridge Canvey Island - Starr Cinema, Canvey Island Chelmsford - Odeon Chelmsford Edinburgh - Vue Edinburgh Omni Ellesmere Port - Vue Cheshire Oaks Glasgow - Glasgow Film Theatre Hull - Vue Hull Lancaster - Dukes, Lancaster Leeds - Vue Leeds Light London - Odeon Covent Garden London - Vue Islington London - Vue Shepherd's Bush London - Vue West End Manchester - Odeon Manchester Northampton - Vue Northampton Norwich - Vue Norwich Plymouth - Vue Plymouth Portsmouth - Vue Portsmouth Romford - Vue Romford Southend-On-Sea - Odeon Southend Swansea - Vue Swansea Thurrock - Vue Thurrock York - Vue York Category: News -- posted at: 3:36 PM Comments[0] |
