It’s coming…

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It’s a shame that some of the best movies (particularly documentaries) never get released to the mass audience. Case in point: Joy Division. This penetrating look at one of the best bands to ever come out of Manchester hammers home the fact that this quartet became legends in only two years time and only a few hundred people can say they’ve seen them live.

The film gathers the surviving members of Joy Division for conversational one-on-one interviews that delve into the birth and rise of the group. They chat earnestly about singer Ian Curtis’s epilepsy and how they chose to not talk about it rather than help him. Even more moving is how the band admits that they never really paid attention to Curtis’s lyrics and didn’t realize how dark they were until he hung himself. Read the rest of this entry »