Articles tagged "anton corbijn"

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He’s Lost Control

by Jennifer Makowsky

[25.Aug.08] :. The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.

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Ode to Joy: Joy Division / Control (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[1.Jun.08] :. The most revolutionary thing about punk wasn’t the music, though it’s hard to imagine that ‘70s listeners were ready for the Ramones/Sex Pistols style of cacophonous crash and burn....

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Film Review

Control

by Matt Mazur

[12.Nov.07] :. What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.

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Film Review

Control

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.07] :. Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand.

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Anton Corbijn’s ‘Control’ is a joy

by Jim Harrington [The Oakland Tribune (MCT)]

[26.Oct.07] :. “Control” is a joy. It’s one of the best music biopics in years, as good as the Johnny Cash film “Walk the Line” and the Ray Charles saga “Ray.” Of course,...

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Tragic rocker Ian Curtis the subject of two new movies

by Rafer Guzman [Newsday (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. When Ian Curtis hanged himself at his suburban home outside Manchester, England, the 23-year-old singer ended a short career. But he was about to embark on a second life as one of rock’s most...

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The Toronto trend: movies about music

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[8.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Along with its announced purpose of bringing the best of contemporary international cinema to North America, and its unofficial standing as the launching pad for films that the studios...

 
 
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