Joy Division (2007 film) explained

Joy Division
Director:Grant Gee
Producer:Tom Astor
Tom Atencio
Jacqui Edenbrow
Music:Joy Division
Cinematography:Grant Gee
Editing:Jerry Chater
Distributor:Universal Pictures
Runtime: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, as well as 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." The person being quoted was Tony Wilson.

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Notes and References

  1. News: 2022-07-22. Review: Joy Division, QFT, Belfast. Belfast Telegraph. 0307-1235.
  2. Web site: 2022-07-22. Review: Joy Division. 3 May 2008. The Guardian.
  3. Web site: 2022-07-22. Jon Savage's documentary Joy Division is a must-see. 12 November 2007. The Guardian.
  4. News: Dennis. Lim. 2022-07-22. The Cult of the Lads From Manchester. The New York Times. 7 October 2007. 0362-4331.
  5. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/04/tonywilson.musicdocumentary The Observer Review, 4 May 2008