probably the best music doc i've seen. so complete, given the resorces. got all sad with tony wilson's parts(now deceased) and even peel(dead too). made me want rob gretton(yup, him too) to have told an anecdote or twelve. the extras are like an extra hour of the doc and enjoyable as well.
I loved this documentary. It really reminded me of how great Joy Division's music is and it was interesting to hear the bandmates talk about Ian Curtis' death...something I had never heard before and was rather moving because it STILL affects them all these years later.
A remarkably well made documentary about the band Joy Division, the city of Manchester and the music scene the sprung from there in the late 70's and which continues to be a vital source of talent and influence in the music industry today.
While I enjoyed this film immensely...I can't say that it is for everyone.
But if you have any interest in the bands Warsaw, Joy Division or New Order...or if you are a fan of the British music scene in general, you will no doubt find this a wonderful retrospective of not just an amazing band...but of an incredibly interesting and complex city as well.
A great documentary that acts as an audio/visual history lesson and a great double feature to Anton Corbijn's "Control" [the biopic on Ian Curtis]. It was really fascinating to hear the story told by the guys [and then some]. And I must add, there is sort of a nerdy charm to Stephen Morris... and Hooky often comes across as kind of a tool...
Without doubt one of the best music documentaries in the history of ever. I got the feeling it must've been difficult to get the interviewees to stop talking once they started.
what can you say about a documentary??...well it was informative and interesting and yet for me not really worth watching on the big screen-this type of documentary is the type of one that you would watch on either bbc2 or channel 4 one night.film for the music fans.(although this film did give me a little insight and history to the great city of manchester of which i now inhabit!!!).
"Sooner or later, someone was gonna want to say more than fuck you, someone was really gonna say I'm fucked. And it was Joy Division who was the first band to do that, to use the energy and simplicity of punk to express more complex emotions."
"Ian's writing was very much a post-industrial nightmare. It was about the bigotry and lack of ethics, cynical hate-filled, totalitarian greed of western society gone mad."
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