The Oasis Reunion Gets Its Documentary
'Don't Look Back In Anger' charts the Gallagher brothers' Live '25 tour, with rehearsal and backstage access and their first joint interviews in over twenty years.
The reunion that a great many people had stopped expecting now has a film. Don't Look Back In Anger documents Liam and Noel Gallagher's reunion tour, Oasis Live '25, and is presented as an unreservedly celebratory account of what its makers describe as the largest musical event of that year.
The access is the story
What distinguishes the film from a standard concert documentary is what the cameras were allowed to reach:
- Rehearsal footage
- Backstage access
- Onstage filming
- The brothers' first joint interviews in over twenty years
That last item is the one that will draw an audience beyond the band's existing following. The Gallaghers' estrangement was conducted publicly and at length, and the sight of the two of them answering questions in the same room is a genuinely novel proposition.
What a celebratory film gains and gives up
The framing is unambiguous, and the trade-off is worth naming. A film made with the cooperation of its subjects, celebrating an event those subjects staged, is not going to interrogate the two decades of hostility that made the reunion remarkable.
What it offers instead is proximity. Rehearsal and backstage footage of a band at this scale is genuinely hard to obtain, and access of that kind is granted only on terms the subjects set.
The reunion economy
Oasis Live '25 belongs to a category that now dominates live music: heritage acts performing to audiences spanning people who were there originally and people who were not born. The economics are extraordinary — stadium-scale demand for a catalogue decades old, at ticket prices no new act could command.
The documentary is the next stage of that model, extending the tour's commercial life well past its final date.
Elsewhere in the release calendar
The autumn slate is unusually varied. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as the Owens sisters in Practical Magic 2, and Janus Films is bringing Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 horror anthology Kwaidan back to cinemas.
A reunion documentary, a legacy sequel and a sixty-year-old restoration is a fair summary of where the exhibition business currently sits.