Joy Division (2007 film)

Joy Division
Directed by	Grant Gee
Produced by	Tom Astor Tom Atencio Jacqui Edenbrow
Written by	Jon Savage
Starring	Bernard Sumner Peter Hook Stephen Morris Peter Saville Tony Wilson
Music by	Joy Division
Cinematography	Grant Gee
Edited by	Jerry Chater
Distributed by	The Works (UK) The Weinstein Company (US)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Joy Division is a 2007 British documentary film on the British post-punk band Joy Division, directed by Grant Gee.

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, 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.

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." The person being quoted was Tony Wilson.

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