OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL
Julien Temple | UK 2009 |104min. | Quebec Premiere
Co-presented with Evokative Films
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Oil City Confidential is Julien Temple's last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970's. It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in The Filth & The Fury, Joe Strummer's in The Future Is Unwritten and focuses on Canvey Island band Dr Feelgood. The story of Dr Feelgood, four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early '70s, sandpapered the face of rock'n'roll, leaving all that came before a burnt-out ruin - four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten's anti-Christ. Taking London by storm, they sped through Europe and conquered the UK with No 1 chart success, before imploding just as punk was born and America beckoned with open arms. Contributions from members of The Clash, Blondie and The Sex Pistols join Dr Feelgood with collaborators Jools Holland and Alison Moyet to tell the story of Canvey, '70s England and the greatest local band in the world.

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EPISODE 1: ARRIVAL
Theodore Cormey’s unbelievably ambitious, 2 years-in-the-making music video for Boston-based art-rock duo Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling's "EPISODE 1: ARRIVAL" is a shot-for-shot remake of the opening sequence of the '60s cult spy-fi TV show The Prisoner. As an added clever touch given Patrick McGoohan’s replacement by the band’s female frontwoman, the band’s name itself is derived from the 13th episode of the series, wherein Number 6’s mind is transplanted into the body of another person.

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