| Joy Division | |
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.jpg) British release poster | |
| Directed by | Grant Gee |
| Written by | Jon Savage |
| Produced by | Tom Astor Tom Atencio Jacqui Edenbrow |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Grant Gee |
| Edited by | Jerry Chater |
| Music by | Joy Division |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Joy Division is a 2007 British documentary film on the British post-punk band Joy Division, directed by Grant Gee.[1][2][3][4]
The film assembles TV clips, newsreel, pictures of modern Manchester and Manchester in the late 1970s, and interviews. The interviewees include the three surviving members of the group, Tony Wilson, Peter Saville, Pete Shelley (of Buzzcocks), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle), Alan Hempsall (of Crispy Ambulance), Paul Morley, Terry Mason, Richard Boon, Anton Corbijn, and Belgian journalist Annik Honoré, with whom Ian Curtis was having an affair.[5]
Film critic Philip French: "Someone says in the film that the revolutionary step they made was to progress from the usual punk group's angry statement: 'Fuck you.' Joy Division were the first to say: 'We're fucked.' There is a particularly impressive sequence in which dark, despairing tracks of urban alienation and angst from the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures are accompanied by a speeded-up nocturnal journey around Manchester. It has the hallucinatory sci-fi feeling of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville."[5] The person being quoted was Tony Wilson.
References
- ^ "Review: Joy Division, QFT, Belfast". Belfast Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Review: Joy Division". The Guardian. 3 May 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Jon Savage's documentary Joy Division is a must-see". The Guardian. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ Lim, Dennis (7 October 2007). "The Cult of the Lads From Manchester". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ a b The Observer Review, 4 May 2008
External links
- Joy Division at AllMovie
- Joy Division at IMDb
- Joy Division at Rotten Tomatoes[dead link]
- Joy Division at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
