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Director: Anton Corbijn Running time: 122 minutes Full Synopsis: The story of the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's life, from the band's rise to fame to his suicide in 1980. Curtis (Sam Riley) marries young to girlfriend Debbie (Samantha Morton) and they have a baby. Increasingly disturbed by bouts of epilepsy, facing pressure from Joy Division’s growing success, and wracked by guilt over his affair with a beautiful Belgian fan (Downfall’s Alexandra Maria Lara), Curtis takes a permanent escape from his troubles.
Suicide & EpilepsyA copius study from Denmark has found that people who have epilepsy are three times more likely to commit suicide than the average person. Results of this study were published in July 2007. Read whole story at the UK site EpilepsyResearch.org Science Daily (Oct. 10, 2005) — Researchers have found provocative evidence that the brain dysfunction that underlies epilepsy may also determine whether people are at risk for suicide. The study, published online October 10, 2005 in the Annals of Neurology (www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/ana), also suggests that depression and suicide may have different brain mechanisms. Read this entire article about in Science Daily
Epilepsy Linked to Higher Suicide Risk Study Shows Women With Epilepsy Have Greater Suicide Risk Than Men With Epilepsy By Salynn Boyles Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD July 5, 2007 -- People with epilepsy are three times more likely to commit suicide than the general population, and women with the disease have a greater suicide risk than men, according to new research from Denmark. The Danish study is not the first to link epilepsy to an increase in suicide, but it is the first to use a comprehensive, nationwide population registry to investigate the association. Newly diagnosed epilepsy patients were more than five times more likely to commit suicide than patients who had been diagnosed more than six months previously. A 29-fold increase in suicide risk was seen in newly diagnosed patients with a history of psychiatric illness. Director Anton Corbijn Anton Corbijn, one of the finest rock/pop photographers who ever clicked a shutter, directs Control, the biopic about tragic figure Ian Curtis and his group Joy Division, a man and a band that Corbijn knew intimately. Here are a few of Corbijn's hundreds of photo masterpieces.
 Anton Corbijn - self portrait
Stephanie Zacharek interviews Corbijn for Salon.com:
Closer to Joy Rock photographer Anton Corbijn discusses his intimate, eloquent movie about Joy Division, "Control," and the band that inspired it. By Stephanie Zacharek For more than 30 years, Anton Corbijn has been one of the premiere rock 'n' roll portraitists. You name the major rock star or band -- Kurt Cobain, U2, R.E.M., David Bowie -- and it's likely Corbijn has photographed them at one time or another. He has also directed numerous music videos for the likes of Nirvana, Johnny Cash and, most frequently, Depeche Mode. But he freely admits that the music of Joy Division -- the revered Manchester band formed in 1976 by Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris -- meant so much to him that it made him want to move from his native Holland to Great Britain. Corbijn, 52, photographed Joy Division very early in his career, and his stark, eloquent black-and-white pictures are perhaps the best record we have of this deeply influential but short-lived band: Curtis committed suicide in 1980, the day before Joy Division was to set off on an American tour. (The remaining band members reformed as New Order.) Now Corbijn revisits the story of the band he's always loved in a feature film (his first) called "Control." (Read my review here) I spoke with Corbijn recently in Toronto, where he talked about the awkwardness he felt upon first meeting the band he so idolized, his decision to shoot the movie in black-and-white, and how beautiful things can happen even when you're making a movie about tragedy. Read Stephanie Zacharek’s full interview in Salon.com with Anton Corbijn Natalie Ian Curtis with daughter Natalie Natalie Curtis speaks to Guardian Unlimited (UK): How does it feel to watch the life and death of your father being re-enacted on film? Natalie Curtis, daughter of Joy Division singer, Ian Curtis, went on set, camera in hand, to find out I was about three when my mum first told me that my father, Ian Curtis - who died when I was one - was a singer, but it just seemed normal, like having an uncle who was a tradesman or whatever. I remember hearing Love Will Tear Us Apart on the radio and realising he was known in some way, but I never thought of him as famous. When I was growing up, neither myself nor my mother were in the public eye, and Joy Division were more cult than mainstream. The first time I heard their album Closer, I thought it was out of this world. I assumed all music was done with that level of style and intelligence. As I grew older, it was a shock to discover not everything was that amazing. Morton Samantha Morton and Sam Riley
Interview with Samantha Morton in The Guardian (UK) by Chrissy Iley: There is a story Samantha Morton tells about when she was a kid going to drama club. After partnering her with another girl, the teacher said, "I'm going to whisper something to you and then you begin the improvisation." "He whispered, 'The other girl's stolen your hamster.' So I beat the crap out of this girl and they didn't ask me back." Press Sam Riley as Ian Curtis Variety reports Control’s wins at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: "Control," the feature debut of Dutch-born photog Anton Corbijn, scooped both top awards at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival, which closed Sunday. Main jury gave pic the Michael Powell Award for new British feature, plus best performance award (a new category this year) to lead actor Sam Riley for his portrayal of late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Read the entire Variety article
Peter Bradshaw reviews "Control" for The Guardian (UK): Anton Corbijn's Control is about the troubled life and times of post-punk legend Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, who killed himself in 1980 at the age of 23, depressed by his epilepsy, his failing marriage and by the uncontrollable intensity of the nihilistic emotions displaced by his life into his art - emotions that consumed him. Corbijn's movie is shot in a stunning high-contrast monochrome, perversely turning Macclesfield's grimness into grandeur. It effortlessly revives a British cinematic style that you might call beautiful realism, reaching back to Christopher Petit's Radio On, and further back to Tony Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and A Taste of Honey. And in fact Ian Curtis's working-class married life, with its pram on the step and the stark laundry hanger in the kitchen, looks straight out of the 1960s. Sam Riley gives a superb performance as Ian Curtis, intuitively recreating his on-stage mannerisms, from the stock-still hunch over the mic, with eyelids lowered, to the crazy, elbows akimbo running on the spot routine, which like nothing else made him look like some sort of visionary outpatient. Samantha Morton gives an intelligent, sympathetic performance as Curtis's wife, Debbie, whom he married when they were both in their teens, as virtually child-bride and groom, and Toby Kebbell is outstanding as Rob Gretton, the wisecracking manager. Read Peter Bradshaw’s full review  Sam Riley as Ian Curtis Paul Morley reports from set of "Control" for The Guardian (UK): Steven Morris cannot believe it. When he talks about what he's lived through as a simple, dedicated drummer, first for Joy Division, then for New Order, he can start to sound like a post-punk Victor Meldew, increasingly indignant at the chaos that unfolded all around him mainly because he found himself, through no real fault of his own, a Factory Records recording star. Don't get him started on the Hacienda, the Manchester nightclub his two groups helped finance, early in the Eighties, for up to £10,000 a month, where he never got a free drink in eight years. He still hasn't really recovered from the time 27 years ago when Ian Curtis, his 23-year-old Macclesfield friend, and the singer in his band, killed himself the day before Joy Division were due to start their first American tour. Both his producer, Martin Hannett, and his manager, Rob Gretton, died in the Nineties, and now, would you credit it, the immortal-seeming Tony Wilson, boss of his record company, the crusading mouth of Manchester, has joined his comrades in the great Factory in the sky. Read Paul Morley’s entire Guardian article  Sam Riley as Ian Curtis Stephen Dalton writes about the real Ian Curtis, subject of "Control", in TimesOnline (UK): Suicide transformed Curtis from a mesmerising singer into a personality cult. The iconic rock martyrs of the late 1960s and early 1970s came with a whiff of orgiastic excess. But Curtis was different, an ordinary young man tormented by epilepsy, depression and marital strife. Bernard Sumner, who replaced Curtis as singer when Joy Division evolved into New Order, is pleased that Control ended up as a human tragedy rather than a rock’n’roll fable. Read Stephen Dalton’s entire article for TimesOnline
Alison Rowat reviews "Control" for Scotland’s The Herald: Shot in black-and-white, photographer turned director Anton Corbijn's biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis looks like a digitally-enhanced kitchen-sink drama from the fifties. Samantha Morton, playing Curtis's wife, Debbie, could have stepped straight out of a long line of heroines to the nappy bucket born. Yet the world Ian Curtis inhabited and Corbijn recreates is Macclesfield in the post-punk seventies. After a Taste of Honey, get a gobful of angst. MusicBuy"Control" soundtrack now!
Control Soundtrack 1. Exit - New Order 2. What Goes On - Velvet Underground 3. Shadowplay - Killers 4. Boredom - Buzzcocks 5. Dead Souls - Joy Division 6. She Was Naked - Supersister 7. Sister Midnight - Iggy Pop 8. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division 9. Problems - Sex Pistols 10. Hypnosis - New Order 11. Drive In Saturday - David Bowie 12. Evidently Chickentown - John Cooper Clarke 13. 2HB - Roxy Music 14. Transmission 15. Autobahn - Kraftwerk 16. Atmosphere - Joy Division 17. Warszawa - David Bowie 18. Get Out - New Order Awards Awards British Independent Film Awards 2007 Won Best Film 2007 Won Best Director (Anton Corbijn) 2007 Won Best Debut Director (Anton Corbijn) 2007 Won Most Promising Newcomer (actor Sam Riley) 2007 Won Best Supporting Actor (Tobey Kebbell)
Cannes Film Festival 2007 Won Golden Camera - Special Mention Anton Corbijn Label Europa Cinemas Anton Corbijn Prix Regards Jeune Anton Corbijn
Chicago International Film Festival 2007 Won Silver Hugo Best Actor Sam Riley Best Screenplay Matt Greenhalgh
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007 Won Best British Performance Sam Riley Best New British Feature Anton Corbijn
Hamburg Film Festival 2007 Won Critics Award Best Film Anton Corbijn
Melbourne International Film Festival 2007 Won Most Popular Feature Film Top Drama
Cast Cast Samantha Morton ... Deborah Curtis Sam Riley ... Ian Curtis Alexandra Maria Lara ... Annik Honoré Joe Anderson ... Peter Hook Toby Kebbell ... Rob Gretton Craig Parkinson ... Tony Wilson James Anthony Pearson Bernard Sumner Harry Treadaway ... Stephen Morris Andrew Sheridan ... Terry Mason Robert Shelly ... Twinny Matthew McNulty ... Nick Jackson Ben Naylor ... Martin Hannett Herbert Grönemeyer ... Public GP Nigel Harris ... Tramp Nicola Harrison ... Corrine Lewis Tim Plester ... Earnest Richards
Directed by Anton Corbijn
Writing credits (in alphabetical order) Deborah Curtis autobiography "Touching from a Distance" Matt Greenhalgh
Produced by Iain Canning .... executive producer Anton Corbijn .... producer Deborah Curtis .... co-producer Todd Eckert .... producer Lizzie Francke .... executive producer Megumi Fukasawa .... co-producer Peter Heslop .... co-producer Satoru Iseki .... co-producer Akira Ishii .... executive producer Korda Marshall .... executive producer Orian Williams .... producer Tony Wilson .... co-producer
Original Music by Joy Division New Order
Cinematography by Martin Ruhe
Film Editing by Andrew Hulme
Casting by Shaheen Baig
Production Design by Chris Roope
Art Direction by Philip Elton
Costume Design by Julian Day
Makeup Department Barbara Taylor .... hair assistant Barbara Taylor .... makeup assistant Jeremy Woodhead .... hair designer Jeremy Woodhead .... makeup designer
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Andrew Foster .... second assistant director Toni Staples .... first assistant director
Art Department Cassie Leedham .... graphic designer Chris Richmond .... stand-by art director Tim Stevenson .... set constructor
Sound Department Nick Baldock .... assistant sound editor Peter Baldock .... supervising sound editor: UK Ben Carr .... adr recordist Daniel Crowley .... boom operator Carl Edström .... sound effects editor Adele Fletcher .... adr editor Thomas Huhn .... sound re-recording mixer Thomas Huhn .... supervising sound editor John Midgley .... production sound mixer Lucas Nilsson .... foley artist Jamie Roden .... adr mixer Jonas Jansson .... sound effects editor (uncredited?)
Visual Effects by Mats Holmgren .... digital colourist Fredrik Nord .... digital effects artist
Stunts Riky Ash .... stunt coordinator Riky Ash .... stunts
Camera and Electrical Department Tim Battersby .... first assistant camera: "a" camera Robert Binnall .... camera operator Andy Clarke .... best boy rigging gaffer Rachel Clark .... camera trainee Warwick Drucker .... key grip Brian Fawcett .... electrician Christopher Ross .... camera operator Barry Squires .... camera trainee Owen Tooth .... video tape operator Julian White .... gaffer Sophie Wilson .... second assistant camera: "a" camera
Casting Department Brendan Donnison .... adr voice casting Benjamin Till .... casting assistant
Editorial Department Barry Moen .... first assistant editor
Music Department Peter Clarke .... music editor Ian Neil .... music supervisor
Other crew Lorraine Bagshaw .... stand-in Vicky Chapman .... location assistant Mel Churcher .... dialect coach Lee Clyne .... unit medic Helen de Winter .... delivery coordinator Zoe Flower .... unit publicist Dan Hodgett .... location services Rob Jones .... location manager Simon Jones .... tranport coordinator: London Hakan Kousetta .... production legal advisor Louise Melzack .... additional floor runner Keeley Naylor .... unit publicist Rachel Robey .... production coordinator Val White .... script supervisor Emma Yeomans .... assistant location manager
Thanks Natalie Curtis .... thanks Martin L. Gore .... special thanks Herbert Grönemeyer .... thanks Charles Hannah .... special thanks New Order .... special thanks Iggy Pop .... thanks
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