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2 May 2008 (UK) morePlot:
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band. | add synopsisAwards:
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Joe Anderson (From Interview Magazine. 21 October 2009, 8:02 AM, PDT)
Cummins: 'I was part of myth-building'
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Very good music documentary: simple, bleak and great info more (6 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Richard Boon | ... | Himself | |
| Anton Corbijn | ... | Himself | |
| Kevin Cummins | ... | Himself | |
| Ian Curtis | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Bob Dickinson | ... | Himself | |
| Lesley Gilbert | ... | Herself | |
| Iain Gray | ... | Himself | |
| Rob Gretton | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Martin Hannett | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Alan Hempsall | ... | Himself - Crispy Ambulance singer | |
| Annik Honoré | ... | Herself | |
| Peter Hook | ... | Himself | |
| Joy Division | ... | Themselves (archive footage) | |
| Richard H. Kirk | ... | Himself | |
| Terry Mason | ... | Himself - Joy Division roadie | |
| Paul Morley | ... | Himself | |
| Stephen Morris | ... | Himself | |
| Liz Naylor | ... | Herself | |
| John Peel | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Genesis P-Orridge | ... | Himself (as Genesis P. Orridge) | |
| Lindsay Reade | ... | Herself | |
| Peter Saville | ... | Himself | |
| Richard Searling | ... | Himself | |
| Pete Shelley | ... | Himself | |
| Bernard Sumner | ... | Himself | |
| Malcolm Whitehead | ... | Himself | |
| Tony Wilson | ... | Himself | |
| Jon Wozencroft | ... | Himself |
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This is a quite beautiful, intrinsic and simply made documentary about the band Joy Division, and about Manchester's youths during the late 1970s and early 1980s. As a few lads congregated, learned their instruments and put together their landmark mal de vivre with the help of Martin Hammett in the shape of "Unknown Pleasures", the life of the group is both professional and private. Ian Curtis' life is high- lighted, and still not dissected from the view-point of Deborah Curtis. Annik Honoré, Curtis' lover, is interviewed, as is a bunch of Manc people, e.g. the members of Joy Division, Richard Boon, Kevin Cummins, Paul Morley, Genesis P. Orridge. They're not there to be name-dropped, but all bring good info to the table. Very little of what's found in this documentary is filler. There is bootleg video included, a piece of a conversation between Curtis in hypnosis and Bernard Sumner, filmed scrawls from Rob Gretton's note-book. All in all, a quite precious film, laying bare the landscape that was the preface, basis and aftermath of Joy Division. A very good music documentary indeed.