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Control (Ian Curtis film)

Saw it yesterday. Fucking great. I got into JD the year after Ian Curtis died and loved them but I hadnt really heard songs like She's Lost Control and Transmission for years. They really stand the test of time. Can't honestly fault the film at all. Performances were superb and Anton Corbijn filmed it with the bleak intensity of Bergman. Was fun spotting what scenes were recreated from Corbijns iconic b&w photos of Ian at the time. My 'must-see' film of 2007.
 
Watched it at the Cornerhouse yesterday, was a little concenred it may be to dark & depressing.
Found my self totaly absorbed, about the depth of what the film focused on, which in my opinion was life, love tyrsts, marrying to young, common people & the music scene of the time.
I think it highlighted 'Epilepsy' and how Ian's life had been ffected by epilepsy.

The scence towards the end, where he was back in the house he had lived in with Debbie, where he (supposidly) had his last epileptic fit, after he had stopped fitting, he got back onto his feet, stood up, stared into the mirror, and decided that was it, he had previously (not) come to turns with the fact that, like it or not, it was propbably going to get worse.
My point here being how would you feel, if you where aware you had this, and on just breaking through to the big time, and it was going to be detrimental to his future sucess, top that with the confussed love & life he had.
I managed to keep it together right until the end, the final scenes, just got to me, I ended up coming away & having to blub, the emotions the film stirred up within just got me. Definatly worth viwing.
I think being shot in b/w, and the way it was shot where excellent.
 
What a great film. The 2 Sams both gave incredible performances. I think he topped himself cos he was depressed - nothing more.


soulman said:
I'm sure there are but it's not top of my priority list at the mo. I'm trying to blag free showings at fact so if anyone can get me free membership I would be eternally grateful and buy you a few drinkies in your bar of choice..
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Don't think anyone is likely to help you after your wanky post about Tony Wilson cashing in. :rolleyes:
 
Maggot said:
What a great film. The 2 Sams both gave incredible performances. I think he topped himself cos he was depressed - nothing more.


Don't think anyone is likely to help you after your wanky post about Tony Wilson cashing in. :rolleyes:
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Was he your hero maggot? :rolleyes:
 
[name drop]I'm currently working with the editor from Control. [/name drop btw]

I'll have to show them this thread in the morning.
 
I thought the editing was excellent - the first half hour had a real storyboard feel which was great.
 
Damn, that was a moving film.
I was impressed at the distinct lack of mawkishness, although dropping "Love will tear Us Apart" at that particular moment was a little on the schmaltzy side. But I was still impressed.
Really good cinematography, gripping, touching.
Great.
 
c'mon, did no one else think it was just a teeny weeny bit self-serving, that too many people involved behind the scenes were a little too concerned about how posterity would rememeber them?
 
soulman said:
Was he your hero maggot? :rolleyes:
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Not hero, but someone I admired. If you knew anything about Wilson, you'd know that he always put artistic integrity before profit, he signed a contract saying that the artists owned everything and factory owned nothing and many of his ventures like the Hacienda lost money even when they were popular.



Hardly the cashing in type.
 
London_Calling said:
c'mon, did no one else think it was just a teeny weeny bit self-serving, that too many people involved behind the scenes were a little too concerned about how posterity would rememeber them?
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I don't think anyone except Gretton came out of it looking any better than I expected them to. And that's just because I didn't have any expectation for him.

Of course, I wasn't there, and I only know the story as it's been told, so it's pretty-much impossible to know if my impressions are even vaguely correct.
 
Saw it last night. 7/10.

Thought the Transmission performance and when she finds him dead at the end, with the opening bars of Atmosphere coming in, were particularly well done. Couldn't help thinking that the actor playing Ian Curtis looked more like a healthy Pete Doherty.

I don't know why but I think I wanted more out of this film. Really enjoyed it though.
 
I left the cinema abit dubious.. but its grown on me since.

Tis the music that makes it though.. spine tingling.
 
London_Calling said:
c'mon, did no one else think it was just a teeny weeny bit self-serving, that too many people involved behind the scenes were a little too concerned about how posterity would rememeber them?
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Not really.. In many ways it was de-bunking a myth and grounding it in the day-to-day. i.e Ian Curtis working down the employment exchange, being abit of a twat at times.. etc.

My main problem was I kept thinking of Steve Coogan whenever "Tony Wison" was on screen. ..
 
Saw it on Sunday, and thought it was absolutely fantastic.

Had me in tears at the end, and a tear rolling down my cheek as they did 'Transmission' on Something Else. I reember seeing that at the time and it was spot on.

The music was fabulous. A film you have to see and hear on the big screen.
 
The first scene was filmed in the high rise estate down the road from my old house in Nottingham, I was so excited :D

This was a nice film, the acting was very good (Rob Gretton and Debbie Curtis especially) but I did think that the beginning of the film was a bit hurried. The black and white photography was very well done, as you'd expect from Corbijn; given that we're all so familliar with Corbijn's photos of joy division it made the whole thing very convincing, it almost felt like a documentary.

Did anyone spot the real Natalie Curtis heckling from the crowd at the gig where Ian refused to go on?
 
Saw this last night. After watching some Joy Division on Youtube, I reckon the actor in Control out-Curtised Curtis, during the live scenes I mean.

Anyone ever see them live, can someone put me right. :D
 
Just been to see it at the Prince Charles. What a fantastic movie, i had shivers down my spine when they were performing, it was uncanny and slightly spooky. Brilliant stuff, loved the casting, love the performances and the B&W look was :cool: Made me laugh a lot, which was good, but i wasn't overwhelmed with emotion come the end. Whether that's cos i knew what was coming, essentially, is a moot point. What a great film though. Recommended :)
 
Watched this film last night, completely blew me away. What a fantastic portrayal of Curtis! The film was all over the place emotionally, had me laughing one minute and on the verge of tears the next, and Joy Division's music had never seemed to document Ian's life and emotions so well. A beautiful film.
 
Great film. How is it that the Rob Gretton character is always the most larger than life? Samantha Morton was wonderful though.
 
Finally got round to seeing it as HMV have got it in a sale. Must say it didn't really engage me until the last half hour, starting with the gig that turned into a riot. From Anton Corbijn's interview on the DVD, it seems originally he was gonna do it as flashback. I reckon if he'd stuck to that plan it would've been 100 times better, the documentary style just didn't work for me.

The end was truly moving, can't get 'Atmosphere' out my head...

And what a contrast Curtis was from the unoriginal, self-indulgent, shallow dullards we have in popular music today.
 
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