Attention Joy Division fans... ...I've just got back from the advanced screening of Control, the Ian Curtis biopic.→[More:] And I highly recommend it. The review on IMDB is pretty apt. The film is beautifully shot - the weight on the screen of black white and grey is perfect, and the countdown to the end is well scripted, as there is only one end to it. It adds an interesting counterpoint to the unfolding story. Growing up in Macclesfield in the north of England, marriage and a child, and shooting to fame, perhaps too fast. Sure, as the IMDB review mentions, the rest of the band are cyphers, but the film's not about them.
John Cooper Clarke appears as an opening act for the band, and it's actually the Thin Man himself (as a nice surprise, doing excerpts from "Evidently Chickentown" [white text on a white background]) and, from what I saw of the credits, New Order does some of the music. What parts, I'm unsure. Different Joy Division songs serve and lyrical points to the film, and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is used perfectly.
I was going to pay money for this, but lucked out with a comp - still, it'd be worth the ticket price.