Joy Division (2007 film)

Not to be confused with Joy Division (2006 film).

Joy Division
British release poster
Directed byGrant Gee
Written byJon Savage
Produced byTom Astor
Tom Atencio
Jacqui Edenbrow
Starring
CinematographyGrant Gee
Edited byJerry Chater
Music byJoy Division
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Joy Division is a 2007 British documentary film on the British post-punk band Joy Division, directed by Grant Gee.[1][2][3][4]

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.[5]

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."[5] The person being quoted was Tony Wilson.

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