movies

Finally, the Joy Division DVD!

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

From the NME:
Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook deejayed and participated in a revealing Q&A session in Los Angeles last night (June 17) to mark the US release of the ‘Joy Division’ documentary DVD.
The film, directed by Grant Gee, concentrates on Joy Division’s groundbreaking sound and on the Manchester band’s tragic frontman Ian […]

Debbie Does Hollywood?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Kirsten Dunst to play Debbie Harry in upcoming Holywood biopic, says the NME

Just like waiting for a bus, along comes another Joy Division movie…

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Just when you thought Control may well be the only Joy Division related film you’d ever see, comes news of another, showing at the Toronto Film Festival (naturally enough alongside Control). The imaginatively titled Joy Division is directed by Grant Gee, who has also directed Radiohead’s Meeting People Is Easy movie. More info at Reuters […]

Ian Curtis vs Atomic

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

In a strange piece of synchronicity, no doubt specifically designed to annoy me, Anton Corbijn’s biopic of Ian Curtis Control (www.controlthemovie.com) is showing at the Wellington Film Festival (link) on the same night as ATOMIC. So, as I put the needle down on the first record of the evening at 9pm, no doubt many of […]

You can’t be in my gang if you don’t smoke…

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

In more Joy Division related news, here’s a trailer for the forthcoming Ian Curtis biopic Control, directed by Anton Corbijn (with French subtitles).