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Control

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Released: 2008-06-03

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Control DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Samantha Morton, Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell, Craig Parkinson, James Anthony Pearson, Harry Treadaway, Andrew Sheridan, Robert Shelly, Richard Bremmer, Tanya Myers, Martha Myers-Lowe, Matthew McNulty, David Whittington, Margaret Jackman, Mary Jo Randle, Ben Naylor, John Cooper-Clarke, James Fortune, Angus Addenbrooke, Nicola Harrison, June Alliss, George Newton, Mark Jardine, Herbert Gronemeyer, Paul Arlington, Tim Plester, Joanna Swain, Joseph M. Marshall, Laura Chambers, Elliot Brown-Walters, Monica Axelsson, Lotti Closs, Eady Williams

Director(s): Anton Corbijn

Features:
Feature commentary by producer/director Anton Corbijn
The Making of Control
A Conversation With Anton Corbijn
Still gallery
Extended live perfromances from the film
3 music videos from Joy Division and the Killers
2 theatrical trailers

Control DVD Details

Video:
Enchanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, Black & White
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Language:
English
French

Running Time: 122
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 796019810258
Product Code: WENC81025DVD
Format: DVD
Year:2007
Studio: Weinstein Company

Control DVD Summary Prolific music-video helmer and award-winning photographer Anton Corbijn makes his feature directorial debut with this biographical drama concerning the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.

Based on the book Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division by the enigmatic singer's wife Deborah Curtis, Control documents the life of a legend who changed the face of modern music but never lived to witness the remarkable impact of his life's work.

The time was the late 1970s, and the post-punk explosion was just gaining momentum in England.

At the forefront of this movement was a band named Joy Division.

Formed in 1976 and first calling themselves Warsaw, Joy Division favored mood and expression over the aggressive stance that had come to define punk rock.

The band was championed by Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, and collaborated with producer Martin Hannett on the album that would become their undisputed masterpiece -- 1979's Unknown Pleasures.

But despite the band's rising popularity, lead singer Curtis was not in good mental or physical health due a debilitating battle with epilepsy and an extramarital affair, and hanged himself in his Macclesfield home on the eve of the band's first U.

S.

tour.

Newcomer Sam Riley stars opposite Samantha Morton in the film that sets out to tell the definitive story of a true rock & roll legend.