Гафийка ([info]gafiyka) wrote in [info]film_stills,
@ 2008-06-29 17:42:00
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Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)






















































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[info]glitterbella
2008-06-29 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Wow, great caps. Loved this thanks.

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[info]s01
2008-06-29 03:33 pm UTC (link)
nice

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[info]ashkeyana
2008-06-29 03:39 pm UTC (link)
The B&W in this movie is so stunning, it must have been hard to chose which stills you wanted to post.

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[info]seedingclouds
2008-06-29 03:46 pm UTC (link)
beautiful caps.

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[info]ex_blackberr466
2008-06-29 04:05 pm UTC (link)
Gorgeous caps! I was just ranting in my journal the other day about how I need to watch this movie soon.

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[info]lucieandco
2008-06-29 05:49 pm UTC (link)
I've seen it last night, and 'mixed feelings' about describes my reaction. The film hardly makes any big mistakes you could try it for (romantic heroification, overstylisation of the visuals), but mainly so because it doesn't seem to want to make any decisions at all - pretty vignettes or character study? Genius or idiot? Who's to say! Leaving the good-bloke-in-bad-situation-or-vice-versa question open could be a really good thing if it were done more deliberately subtle and less heightenedly judgment-o-phobic. The Just A Bloke Like Any Other aspect is emphasised to the point where you can't help but wonder, if he wasn't that much of a hero and not quite a villain (never mind the other 'characters', by the way; to anyone not acquainted with the band and the scene, they must seem like instantly forgettable cardbord cutouts - even Deborah hardly gets a personality, and if we feel sorry for her, it's because it's The Natural Thing To Do), was he really worth making a film about - or rather, was his story really cut out for a biopic, rather than a documentary, a film that aims to be both faithful to the facts and engaging as a film in its own right? Ah, I'm really not pleased with the film as is, but at the same time, every 'improvement' I can think of would have involved the taking of liberties that would have bothered me (and many others) simply for being liberties. His life, as shown here, just doesn't have the dramatic arc. It could never have been satisfying in the traditional sense, of course, but it doesn't achieve the strong feeling of heavy, in itself meaningful emptiness I expected (in the true tradition of JD's songs), either.
That said, for Joy Division fans, it's still an enjoyable (if not, as they say, rewarding) watching experience, not so much as a delving biography, more as a well-versed reanimation of the time, the place, the basic facts around the band. I think a lot of people confuse their feelings towards the film with their feelings towards their own perception of Ian Curtis and Joy Division.
How peculiar, I did not mean for this comment to be so long.

(I agree about the stills, by the way. Wonderful choices!)

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[info]gafiyka
2008-06-29 06:38 pm UTC (link)
"I did not mean for this comment to be so long" - though, it was very interesting to read.
I agree, that a lot of people can confuse impressions from the film with their feelings about the times of Ian Curtis life, and also with all, that you've written. But there is a second way of watching the film (and it was my way) - I've seen Control without any listening the Joy Division's music ever. So am I and my musical incompetence. I've watched this film as a work of brilliant photographer, because it's very interisting for me to watch, how can photo-image transform into film-image, inside director personally.

My previous post was devoted to John Colvert's "Ashes and Snow" - one more beautiful transformation of stillness into dynamics. That's why I'm here - to capture some moments of cinema being photography, and vice cersa.

Sorry for such a long comment and broken English too. :)

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[info]lucieandco
2008-07-01 04:13 pm UTC (link)
But there is a second way of watching the film (and it was my way) - I've seen Control without any listening the Joy Division's music ever.

Thanks for telling me - that is something I had been wondering about: how does the film look to somebody who isn't familiar with Joy Division, Ian Curtis etc.? I was under the impression that it would feel quite shallow then - though that, of course, doesn't hurt the fact that it's very well 'photographed' indeed (although I think I prefer some of Corbijn's music videos, they have a greater elegance).

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Courtesy of the Curtis Cult
[info]tajmall
2008-06-30 02:41 am UTC (link)
top comment so no worries about the length

far more balanced than my less charitable reaction to the film - and/or the Curtis Cult
no matter how well-made a film i find it filthy because of the context.
if there's an argument it's because Curtis's music was so great then where's the biopic about Steven Morris? or a flick about Public Image Ltd or ESG or or or you name it...

it's necrophilia. and now there's customised Joy Div sneakers and MP3 players
oh the irony

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[info]rebel_waltz
2008-06-29 04:15 pm UTC (link)
i really liked this movie. i've been wanting to watch it again but no one has it for some reason.

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[info]sareja
2008-06-29 04:31 pm UTC (link)
love the movie so much.
beautiful caps.

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[info]masha_chaplin
2008-06-29 04:35 pm UTC (link)
thank you! i adore this movie

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[info]deereyed
2008-06-29 04:38 pm UTC (link)
beautiful, he looks so much like curtis, it's eerie.

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[info]grammaire
2008-06-29 04:58 pm UTC (link)
I was just going to say -he was a very good choice to play him. But yes, beautiful caps. I should see this movie.

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[info]gafiyka
2008-06-29 06:47 pm UTC (link)
I've read that he tried out for 24 Hour Party People too - the film, that covered the Joy Division too. He've got a silent part in it, but it was cut out with the editing.
Maybe, he was to play a role in film about Ian Curtis, some kind of destiny, or smth like that :)

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[info]gafiyka
2008-06-29 06:59 pm UTC (link)
Oops, sorry, Sam do played in that film, the role of Mark E. Smith.

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[info]lepopnoir
2008-07-13 08:28 pm UTC (link)
Right, I've heard this too, but I'm fairly sure the only time Smith is depicted is outside the first clubnight - and that man is Mark E. Smith, playing himself.

I think the actor who played Ian in 24HPP (can't recall his name) was a far better choice and I don't see why he wasn't considered for Control. He's terrifying and mesmerising, like Ian was. Sam Riley is too pretty and soft, but that's only my p.o.v.

All in all, despite being beautiful, I think that the film does not do the Joy Division story justice. It is Deborah's story of being left by her husband, and it incinuates that Ian died because of his inconsolable love life issues. I think that the millions of people who have been introduced to Ian and the band by this film have been spun a fairy tale.

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[info]moktir
2008-06-29 06:25 pm UTC (link)
<3

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[info]its_marytime
2008-06-29 06:45 pm UTC (link)
VERY COOL STILLS
from my absolutely-favourite movie

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[info]gafiyka
2008-06-29 06:47 pm UTC (link)
thanks)

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[info]23beats_off
2008-06-29 08:08 pm UTC (link)
I don't need a long explanation. I just loved it.

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[info]typeswatermelon
2008-06-29 08:24 pm UTC (link)
good kiss.
while i love this community, stills never really drive me to rent a movie unless ive heard about it before. ive never heard anything about this film but yer stills really make me need to see it.

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[info]seveni
2008-07-01 11:50 am UTC (link)
Well this movie is worth the watch i tell you.

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[info]greentea_fairy
2008-06-29 11:00 pm UTC (link)
mm i loved this movie.

good choice of the scene with him and annick on the bed.

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[info]danadanger
2008-06-30 02:56 am UTC (link)
beautiful!

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[info]seveni
2008-07-01 11:50 am UTC (link)
These are very beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
The movie itself is definitely worth watching even if you didn't listen Joy Division (like me), since the acting skills of these young men and women and the mood and look Anton Corbijn gives it is so amazing.

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[info]mythologique
2008-07-03 06:48 pm UTC (link)
bought this the week it came out w/ a bonus dvd, joy division the documentary. so good.

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[info]monsterjunk
2008-11-29 10:13 pm UTC (link)
looove the caps you used
this was such a pretty movie
and good, too of course lol

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