Oasis film carries Live ’25 from stadium to screen

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger is now into its second week of a limited theatrical run across the UK and Ireland, including IMAX screens, after opening on 9 September. The feature arrived having already drawn a standing ovation at its out-of-competition premiere at the Venice Film Festival around 5 September.

Written by Steven Knight and directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, the two-hour, two-minute documentary chronicles the band’s 2025 Live ’25 reunion tour. It mixes rehearsal, backstage and onstage footage from Cardiff, Manchester, Croke Park in Dublin, São Paulo, Tokyo and New York with archival material, and it contains the first joint interviews that Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher have given in more than fifteen years. Knight has described the project as a film about reconciliation and forgiveness. The picture focuses on the emotional impact of the return on fans across generations as well as on the performances themselves. No new Oasis music is included. Produced by Magna Studios, it has a celebratory tone and showcases the access the film-makers secured. The limited cinema run is under way and will be followed by a streaming release on Disney+ later in 2026.

From the Boardwalk to the stadiums

Oasis formed in Manchester in 1991, first as the Rain, with Liam Gallagher as lead vocalist. Noel Gallagher joined a few months later as guitarist and took over the songwriting that shaped the group’s first four albums. They became one of the defining and most globally successful bands of Britpop. Definitely Maybe, released in 1994, announced them at full stretch; (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? followed and carried the songs that filled the biggest rooms in Britain and far beyond. Line-ups changed over the years, yet the brothers remained the constants until the band came to an end. Liam later fronted Beady Eye and built a solo catalogue that includes As You Were (2017), Why Me? Why Not. (2019), further live and studio releases, and the 2024 album with John Squire. Noel has continued to write and perform under his own name and with the High Flying Birds.

Live ’25 put the Oasis name back on stadium stages. Live recordings from the tour have already reached listeners as singles through 2025 and into 2026: Bring It On Down from Edinburgh, Cigarettes & Alcohol from Manchester, Little By Little from London, Slide Away from Cardiff, Wonderwall from Dublin and Acquiesce from Wembley Stadium, alongside a remastered edition of Time Flies... 1994-2009. The documentary does not add studio material to that run. It stays with the work on stage, the preparation around it, and the audiences who met the songs again.

What the cinema run offers now

By setting the joint interviews beside the scale of the shows, Don’t Look Back in Anger keeps its attention on craft, performance and the charge that met the return rather than on private score-settling. Irish audiences will feel the particular force of the Croke Park sequences, returning those Dublin nights to the cinema before the film moves on. The limited theatrical engagement continues through selected venues in the coming days; the next fixed point is the Disney+ premiere, still undated beyond “later in 2026”. Until then the film stands as a theatrical record of a reunion tour shot across three continents, shaped by Knight’s brief for forgiveness and by the access Lovelace and Southern were given.