One of the best music documentaries in recent history is Oasis: Supersonic, a dizzy and euphoric chronicle of Oasis' rise from wayward Manchester youth to the highest heights of global rock stardom. It ended with the band's insanely huge 1996 shows at Knebworth and with the band members conceding that they should've just ended things there. Instead, Oasis ended things messily in 2009, and then they got back together for a triumphant global stadium tour last year. Now, we're about to get another Oasis documentary out of it.
Earlier this year, we learned that Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight was getting together with Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, directors of the LCD Soundsystem concert film Shut Up And Play The Hits and the NYC early-'00s rock-scene documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom, to make a new documentary about the Oasis reunion tour. The resulting film Don't Look Back In Anger opens in theaters next month before coming to Hulu and Disney+ later in the year, and we get to see the poster and the trailer today.
The trailer is fucking awesome. It suggests that we'll be getting a pretty glowing and predictable portrait of circa-now Oasis, and that's just fine with me. Even if this thing is badly made and cliché-plagued, it'll still give us two of the most compelling knuckleheads on rock 'n' roll history talking about how they finally patched things up, as well as tons of footage of those gigantic, emotional, beautiful Oasis crowds. Check it out below.
Don't Look Back In Anger opens in theaters 9/11, with advance IMAX screenings 9/9.
