Synopsis

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 and the Fury and Joe Strummer in The Future is Unwritten. 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 and roll and left all that came before a burnt-out ruin. Cannibalizing 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.

감독

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  • 줄리언 템플
  • 1953년생. 영국의 극영화, 다큐멘터리, 뮤직비디오 감독이다. 섹스 피스톨즈에 관한 영화로 감독 데뷔한 이후, 여러 편의 후속작을 만들어왔다. 섹스 피스톨즈에 대한 또 하나의 영화 <섹스 피스톨즈의 전설>(1999)은 선댄스영화제와 2000 베를린영화제에서 상영되었다.