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Joy Division - Control (1980)

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Track 01
  2. Track 02
  3. Track 03
  4. Track 04
  5. Track 05
  6. Track 06
  7. Track 07
  8. Track 08
  9. Track 09
  10. Track 10
Volume 2
  1. Track 01
  2. Track 02
  3. Track 03
  4. Track 04
  5. Track 05
  6. Track 06
  7. Track 07
  8. Track 08
  9. Track 09
  10. Track 10

Notes

disc 1: burned as DVD
disc 2: avi source (Divx rip)


Control is Anton Corbijn's 2007 black-and-white biopic about the late Ian Curtis (1956-1980), lead singer of post-punk band Joy Division. The screenplay written by Matt Greenhalgh is based on the book Touching from a Distance, by Curtis's wife, Deborah, who is also a co-producer of the film.

The film details the life of the troubled young musician, who forged a new kind of music out of the punk rock scene of 1970s Britain, and the band Joy Division, which he headed from 1977 to 1980. It also deals with his rocky marriage and extramarital affairs, as well as his increasingly frequent seizures, which were thought to contribute to the circumstances leading to his suicide on the eve of Joy Division's first U.S. tour.

The title is a reference to the Joy Division song, "She's Lost Control" believed to be a reference to an epileptic client befriended by Curtis while employed at a Job Centre in Manchester, who later died during a seizure.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, on 17 May 2007 where it was received well by critics, especially for Sam Riley's performance. The film was winner of the Director's Fortnight, the CICAE Art & Essai prize for best film, the Regards Jeunes Prize for best first/second directed feature film and the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the sidebar. It won five awards in the British Independent Film Awards, including "Best British Independent Film", "Best Director of a British Independent Film" for Corbijn and "Most Promising Newcomer" for Riley. It also won Best Film award in the Evening Standard British Film Awards for 2007. In 2008, writer Matt Greenhalgh won BAFTA's "Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film".