Control and Unknown Pleasures

Here's an extended version of the first performance from the awesome 2007 Ian Curtis biopic "Control". This scene in particular gets me because you really get the feel that the band is falling into their aesthetic and hitting their stride live in front of you! To witness something like that with music and early shows of acts is a very personal and cosmic moment in time, never to be repeated again. All the actors ,as band members, pull this off so well I believe they felt it too. Personally i never saw the band live but from all the footage out there you can see how well this movie was made and acted. Especially Sam Riley as Curtis is just great. All together an amazing movie. (i would say even if yer not a fan of the band) currently on rotation on HBO.

Directed by	Anton Corbijn
Produced by	Anton Corbijn Todd Eckert Orian Williams Iain Canning Peter Heslop Tony Wilson Deborah Curtis
Written by	Matt Greenhalgh Deborah Curtis
Starring	Sam Riley Samantha Morton Toby Kebbell Alexandra Maria Lara
Music by	Joy Division New Order

NY Times review 2007 In 1973, when we first encounter him, Ian Curtis (Sam Riley) is a lanky schoolboy in Macclesfield, a red-brick English town outside of Manchester, with intense but not unusual interests. Apart from cigarettes and his best friend’s girlfriend (whom he will shortly marry), these are mainly musical and literary. In his debut film, “Control,” about the last seven years of Mr. Curtis’s life, Anton Corbijn notes some of the figures in the young man’s personal canon — the expected proto-punk culture heroes (David Bowie, Lou Reed, J. G. Ballard), yes, but also William Wordsworth, whose “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” Mr. Curtis quotes from memory. (Joy Division doing Leaders of Men early live) Of course, from its very first frame, “Control” is shadowed by intimations of its main character’s imminent mortality. Mr. Curtis, the lead singer in Joy Division, the great post-punk Manchester quartet, committed suicide in 1980, just before the band was to embark on its first American tour. He was 23, and in the years since his death he has become a canonical figure in his own right. Even as Joy Division’s austere, brooding songs — “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Isolation,” “She’s Lost Control” — have continued to influence musicians from all corners of the musical cosmos, they have lost very little of their glum, haunting power. more... Disc 1 01. Disorder 02. Day Of The Lords 03. Candidate 04. Insight 05. New Dawn Fades 06. She's Lost Control 07. Shadowplay 08. Wilderness 09. Interzone 10. I Remember Nothing Disc 2 01. Dead Souls (Live) [º] 02. The Only Mistake (Live) [º] 03. Insight (Live) [º] 04. Candidate (Live) [º] 05. Wilderness (Live) [º] 06. She's Lost Control (Live) [º] 07. Shadowplay (Live) [º] 08. Disorder (Live) [º] 09. Interzone (Live) [º] 10. Atrocity Exhibition (Live) [º] 11. Novelty (Live) [º] 12. Transmission (Live) [º] Get Unknown Pleasures Collectors ed. Password: abcafterglow via; ABCAFTERGLOW