Control

[b.miller]

I got to see this tonight and just wanted to add a "me too" to the Loved It pile. I'm just a casual Joy Division fan so I can't speak to how accurate it was or how close the actors look/behave like their characters but I can say that everything seemed 100% dead on. It's not a short movie (I think what I saw ended up at around 130 minutes) but very good. The live shows were all really well done (A producer was in attednance and said that all the actors had to learn their instruments (Sam Riley knew how to sang but had to smoke a bunch of cigarettes to lower his voice) and by the time they shot the gig scenes they actually performed the songs then acted to their own playback... which is great considering how it sounds. Yes it is a tad different but it also has all the messiness of a live performance so... I was impressed.

Everyone already knows how pretty it is, but it's really shot as if from moving black and white photos. I'm not sure the camera ever moved (it probably did, I wasn't keeping a tally or anything, but after watching the previous film (which felt like 90% handheld and steadicam work) this felt extremely static and composed.

Good stuff to be sure.

[grady]

The film finally peaks it's head into the Northwest of the States.

It's a solid portrait of a band and specifically an artist in movement and growth and ultimately demise.

Not to conradict b.miller, but the camera did indeed move, and quite often.