Oasis Reunion Film Captures Brothers Healing on Stage — SkimNews
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- Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern captured 13 of the 41 Oasis Live '25 concerts across 14 countries and five continents, employing up to 20 cameras and "hundreds and hundreds of hours" of footage for their documentary "Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger."
- Liam Gallagher walked into London rehearsals after 16 years estranged from Noel, dropped his bag, said "Are we ready then?", played two hours, then left — a daily ritual filmed via cameras the directors had hidden in the band's sound kit to remain invisible to the band for six weeks.
- The film weaves personal fan portraits into the tour footage, including a South Korean free diver who credits Oasis lyrics with helping her through depression and a Manchester Arena bombing survivor realizing the music's meaning is "to not look back in anger."
- Father Luke at St Bernard's Church in Burnage — opposite the Gallaghers' childhood primary school — built an entire Sunday sermon around the "Not seven times but 77 times" forgiveness passage on the only day filmmakers could shoot, which co-director Dylan Southern called an "unexpected gift."
- Stone Roses bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield's death at 63 during the São Paulo concert was captured on film, with Liam dedicating "Live Forever" to "our dear friend, our hero" while a visibly shaken Noel played the solo staring at Mounfield's face on the screen above the stage.
- Cinematographers on the film included Oscar-winner Lol Crawley (The Brutalist), Moonlight Oscar-nominee James Laxton, and Haris Zambarloukos (Belfast, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice) — hired deliberately over rock-doc veterans because Southern wanted "the greats of the period."
- Noel and Liam Gallagher gave their first joint interview in two decades by the end of filming, with Noel telling the directors: "We are in contact way more than we ever were before" and "I'd forgotten how funny Liam was."
Why it matters: The film reframes the Oasis reunion away from tabloid feuding: Lovelace and Southern's unprecedented backstage access documents the Gallaghers healing publicly across 41 sold-out stadium gigs, capturing unrepeatable moments — Liam's terse daily rehearsal entrances, the São Paulo tribute to Mani, the Burnage vicar's sermon — that conventional concert coverage never had.
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