'OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL'
GROUNDBREAKING NEW CINEMA EVENT
LIVE EVENT TO BE BEAMED TO VUE, ODEON, PICTUREHOUSE AND
INDEPENDENT CINEMAS ACROSS UK & IRELAND
TO ACCOMPANY NEW JULIEN TEMPLE FILM
TUESDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2010
London, January 21st 2010 - Julien Temple’s “Oil City Confidential” is to be launched with a ground breaking rock & roll cinema event beamed live from London into cinemas across the UK and Ireland on Tuesday 2 February 2010.
The red carpet happening, staged at Koko in Camden, London, will feature an introduction by director Julien Temple and MC Keith Allen, the first public showing of Oil City Confidential and a live set from Dr Feelgood legend Wilko Johnson and his band (featuring Blockheads Norman Watt Roy and Dylan Howe) with special guest Alison Moyet. With doors opening at 6.45pm, Oil City Confidential screening at 7.45pm and the live concert at 9.45pm, tickets for the live event are selling fast.
Film and music fans can see the whole event live via satellite in over 40 local cinemas across the UK and Ireland. The full list of cinemas is available on www.oilcityconfidential.co.uk, and as an attachment to this release.
“F***ing brilliant! Absolutely essential viewing for any music fan”
Phill Jupitus
“Inspired and raucous” Sunday Times
“Great, and deeply moving, rock’n’roll history of one of Britain’s finest and unfairly overlooked bands”
The Times London Film Festival
“Reservoir Dogs In Essex” Uncut Magazine
“Britain’s best rock documentarian” The Independent
“...a touching yet undeniably amusing experience.” Clash Music – 8/10
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Notes to Editors
OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL (cert 15)
Julien Temple’s Oil City Confidential is the last film in his 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 will be screened in 2K digital cinema, with 5.1 Surround Sound, via digital cinema projectors across the UK and Ireland from Tuesday 2nd February. The live red carpet and concert event will be delivered to cinemas via satellite. Digital cinema projection and satellite technology are providing cinema owners, distributors, and the entertainment industry at large with substantial benefits including: new programming opportunities – 3D films and alternative content (non-movie entertainment) such as live and recorded concerts, music-related documentaries, opera, ballet and sports events. Digital cinema is enabling cinemas to become vibrant entertainment centres, as well as movie houses.
For more information, please contact
Toby Holdsworth, Arts Alliance Media
toby.holdsworth@artsalliancemedia.com
Tel: 0207 751 7500
CINEMA LISTINGS – All screening with live event via satellite on February 2nd , except where indicated with a *
UK
Empire Sites
Empire Basildon * - 8 Feb
Independent Sites
Aberystwth Arts Centre * - 3, 4 March*
Filmhouse Edinburgh * - 5, 6,7 Feb*
Glasgow Film Theatre *
Movie Starr Cinema, Canvey Island* - 2, 3, 4 Feb (2nd screening not accompanied by live event)
Dukes, Lancaster
Odeon Sites
Odeon Chelmsford
Odeon Covent Garden
Odeon Manchester Printworks
Odeon Southend
Picturehouse Sites
Belmont Picturehouse
Cinema City, Norwich * - 16, 17, 18 Feb
Exeter Picturehouse
Greenwich Picturehouse
Harbour Lights, Southampton
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
Ritzy Picturehouse
York Picturehouse
Vue Sites
Vue Birmingham Star City
Vue Bristol Cribbs Causeway
Vue Camberley
Vue Cambridge
Vue Cheshire Oaks
Vue Edinburgh Omni
Vue Hull
Vue Islington
Vue Leeds Light
Vue Northampton
Vue Norwich
Vue Plymouth
Vue Portsmouth
Vue Romford * - 2, 5 Feb (screening on 2nd includes live event)
Vue Shepherd's Bush
Vue Swansea
Vue Thurrock
Vue West End
Vue York
IRELAND
Movies @ Dundrum
Movies @ Swords
Mayo Movie World, Castlebar
SGC Dungarvan
Vue Dublin
Cinema listings correct as at 20th January. For the most up to date listings please see www.oilcityconfidential.co.uk