Control (2007)
Note: this print runs 89 minutes against a recorded 122 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson, Harry Treadaway, John Cooper Clarke, Matthew McNulty
Directed by Anton Corbijn
Control is a 2007 biographical film about the life of Ian Curtis, singer of the late-1970s English rock band Joy Division. It is the first feature film directed by Anton Corbijn, who had worked with Joy Division as a photographer. The screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh was based on the biography Touching from a Distance by Curtis's widow Deborah, who served as a co-producer on the film. Tony Wilson, who released Joy Division's records through his Factory Records label, also served as a co-producer. Curtis' bandmates Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris provided incidental music for the soundtrack via their post-Joy Division incarnation New Order. Control was filmed partly on location in
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