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2007 British film

Joy Division
British release poster
Directed by	Grant Gee
Written by	Jon Savage
Produced by	Tom Astor Tom Atencio Jacqui Edenbrow
Starring	Bernard Sumner Peter Hook Stephen Morris Peter Saville Tony Wilson
Cinematography	Grant Gee
Edited by	Jerry Chater
Music by	Joy Division
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	2007 (2007)
Running time	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.

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.

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.

References

"Review: Joy Division, QFT, Belfast". Belfast Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
"Review: Joy Division". The Guardian. 3 May 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
"Jon Savage's documentary Joy Division is a must-see". The Guardian. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
Lim, Dennis (7 October 2007). "The Cult of the Lads From Manchester". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
^ The Observer Review, 4 May 2008

External links

Joy Division at IMDb
Joy Division at Rotten Tomatoes
Joy Division at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

v t e Joy Division
Ian Curtis Bernard Sumner Peter Hook Stephen Morris
Studio albums	Unknown Pleasures Closer
Extended plays	An Ideal for Living The Peel Sessions (1986 and 1987)
Compilation albums	Warsaw Still Substance Peel Sessions Permanent Heart and Soul The Complete BBC Recordings Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes The Best of Joy Division Total: From Joy Division to New Order
Live albums	Preston 28 February 1980 Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
Songs	"Warsaw" "Digital" "Disorder" "She's Lost Control" "Shadowplay" "Transmission" "Komakino" "Dead Souls" "Atmosphere" "Atrocity Exhibition" "Isolation" "New Dawn Fades" "Love Will Tear Us Apart" "Ceremony"
Related	Discography New Order Rob Gretton Touching from a Distance Control Joy Division A Means to an End: The Music of Joy Division Earcom 2: Contradiction

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