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25 October 2007

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.
Oh, yes!...I saw it at Film Forum two weeks ago at Film Forum.
posted by brujita 25 October | 01:07
strike one out
posted by brujita 25 October | 01:08
Science Girl's the Joy Division fan in our house (I'm looking forward to I'm Not There, myself), so I imagine we'll be seeing this at some point. I'm told that the actors playing the band actually played during the concert scenes - how did they do?
posted by bmarkey 25 October | 01:20
how did they do

Really really good. IIRC, the lead actor actually sung the lyrics. Very well done. The soundtrack's got J.Div., Iggy, and Bowie, among others - definitely on my to-buy list.
posted by Zack_Replica 25 October | 01:36
Oh, hey, brujita - the copy I saw had a few scratches on the print, along with a yellow (very noticeable) scratch down the centre at the end of the second reel for about 3-5 min. - did you get that on the one that you saw? It didn't detract from the film in any way, I was just wondering if it was "meant" to happen....
posted by Zack_Replica 25 October | 01:43
Off topic, but I was watching The Sopranos the other day and the used a version of Absolutely Chicken town town where they replaced each occurrence of "Fuck" with "Bloody".

And I thought - WTB. How can you ruin Chicken Town by swapping a single syllable plosive with the two syllable "Bloody" and why the hell would you even want to do that. I mean - it's not like The Sopranos avoids the F word generally.

Very Fucking Confusing. If you ask me.
posted by seanyboy 25 October | 02:30
With Bloody
With Fucking
posted by seanyboy 25 October | 02:34
I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie. Glad to hear it's as cool as a Joy Division movie should be.
posted by BoringPostcards 25 October | 07:25
Can't wait to see this. Tried last week, but it done sold out.
posted by Hellbient 25 October | 10:22
I'm seeing it tomorrow night, when it opens in SF.
posted by small_ruminant 25 October | 11:21
Z_R, nothing wrong with the print I saw, so I don't think so.

It'll probably go to Cinema Village or the Quad once it finishes its run at FF.

I didn't know anything about JCC until I went to the Manchester punk exhibit at Urbis on my visit two years ago...I found Disguise in Love and a compilation at Fopp on a later London trip, but I'm glad to see his other stuff has been reissued since.
posted by brujita 25 October | 12:00
This evening... || Am i making it to Chicago? Not in costume.

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