In the late 1970s, a band called Joy Division climbed out of small-town England to ride the post-punk wave with darkly emotional lyrics and a new, jangly sound. Championed by television personality Tony Wilson, the band was headed for a breakthrough. But on the eve of their first American tour, lead singer Ian Curtis, troubled by his crumbling marriage and a battle with epilepsy, killed himself. Control is the story of Curtis, magnetically played by Sam Riley, following the arc of his early days when he steals (and marries) his best friend's girl, to his later infidelity, stage fright and eventual implosion at the young age of 23. "Although it is, in point of fact, a biographical drama about the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, Control, the debut feature by photographer-video director Anton Corbijn, is such a convincing, intimate, and beautiful movie that to refer to it as a biopic seems cheap." (Premiere) More at controlthemovie.com 35mm Cinemascope
2007, b&w, 2 hours 1 minute, UK/USA