Ian Curtis was only 23 when he hung himself in the kitchen of his wife's house on May 18th, 1980 in Manchester, England. His band, Joy Division, had been only responsible for one album, 1979's Unknown Pleasures, while the finishing touches were being put on the second, 1980's Closer. These two pesky albums, along with a single "Love Will Tear Us Apart," would constitute posthumous fandom unlike anyone could have imagined. Both Pleasures and Closer were futuristic pieces of musical intrigue that ignored the nostalgia boasted by the bands that influenced them; Bowie and Iggy Pop sure looked futuristic, but their music was only somewhat forward-looking. Uniformly, Anton Corbijn's Control's ostentatious demeanor belies a somewhat routine ponderance of Curtis' abruptly interrupted popularity.
When we first come across Curtis (a well-researched Sam Riley), he is rushing home with a copy of Aladdin Sane under his arm. Like any experimental teen of that era, he dances and contorts in androgynous bliss while his parents quietly read the paper and prepare dinner in the other room. His quick courtship and marriage to Deborah (the consummate Samantha Morton) quickly sticks him in a go-nowhere house with a go-nowhere job at an employment office. Curtis, like most of England, gets a kick in the knickers when he hears The Sex Pistols for the first time, immediately walking into the street and inquiring whether his friends still need a singer for their band Warsaw.
There are moments that will make any Division fan wince. In a long take, Deborah and Ian walk down a street, passive aggressively hassling each other until Ian comes out and says that he doesn't think he loves her anymore; cue "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Not to mention hearing "Atmosphere" played for the umpteenth time to signal Curtis' demise: an eye-rollable offense. An attempt at finding Curtis' final reasoning is a fool's errand that Corbijn can't help but fall for, but for every scene of inescapable creation and familial bickering, there are also moments of devastating solitude that Corbijn, a famed photographer, captures acutely.
Shot beautifully by promising cinematographer Martin Ruhe, Control's first half has a more rambunctious energy that eventually fizzles out. Corbijn invests the early rumblings of the band with humor and fetishized moments of production. The band incapable of doing anything but farting before their first gig is especially ingenious, but Corbijn's staggering recreation of the band's first appearance on Tony Wilson's show playing "Transmission" is easily distinguishable as the film's peak.
Altogether, Control distances itself from the fray but it also can't distinguish itself as a substantial foot forward. Corbijn, a friend of the band in his early days, doesn't address the mythology of Curtis, in turn disregarding his importance and relegating him only to the moments of personal anguish that every Division fan already knows about (his seizures, his affair with a journalist). By defining him by the same actions as any other music legend, Corbijn commits the crime of turning Curtis into just another music legend.
Love tore him apart.
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John Coltrane and Don Cherry
Artist: John Coltrane and Don Cherry
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
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The Avant-Garde [Deluxe Editition]
Year: 1990
Tracks: 5
Iron Madness
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Mylene Farmer
Artist: Mylene Farmer
Genre(s):
Dance: Pop
Chanson
Rock: Pop-Rock
Soundtrack
Dance
Pop
Discography:
Avant que l'ombre
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Remixes
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
L'ame-Stram-Gam (Dance Remixes)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Je Te Rends Ton Amour
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Live A Bercy
Year: 1997
Tracks: 20
California (Single)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
Xxl (Single)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
L'instant X (Single)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Comme J'ai Mal (Single)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Giorgino
Year: 1994
Tracks: 24
My Soul Is Slashed (Single)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 3
Que Mon Coeur Lache (Single)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 2
Beyond My Control (Single)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
L'autre
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
L'antre
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
En Concert (cd2)
Year: 1989
Tracks: 9
En Concert (cd1)
Year: 1989
Tracks: 9
En Concert
Year: 1989
Tracks: 18
Ainsi Soit Je... (Single)
Year: 1988
Tracks: 3
Ainsi Soit Je
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Cendres De Lune
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
Mylenium Tour (Bootleg)
Year:
Tracks: 19
Innamoramento
Year:
Tracks: 13
Dance Remixes
Year:
Tracks: 16
Collection
Year:
Tracks: 16
Anamorphosee
Year:
Tracks: 12
Since 1985, Mylene
Brian Hughes
Grey's Anatomy star battles skin cancer
Grey's Anatomy star battles skin cancer
'Grey's Anatomy' star Eric Dane, has revealed to OK! cartridge holder that he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.
The 35-year-old actor, wHO plays Dr Mark Sloan in the strike register, became concerned after noticing an unusual temporary hookup of peel to a higher place his lips and immediately sought medical checkup handling.
He told the mag: "I went to my dermatologist. He said it was malignant tissue caused by sun damage."
Doctors treated the growth by freeze it forth with liquid nitrogen and Dane admitted it was a traumatic procedure.
He added: "My skin is rattling sensitive and my lip was traumatised by the subroutine I had to go through. I didn't feed really well for a duet of weeks and doomed a caboodle of weight."
Scorn dropping over 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) during his ordeal, the actor has insisted he is on the road to recovery.
Buck 65
Friday, 25 April 2008
Cloverfield sets monster record in US
Cloverfield sets monster record in US
'Cloverfield' has become the first freak hit of 2008 after devising $41m (€28m) in the US last weekend, a record hatchway for Jan according to studio estimates.
Watch an extended clip from 'Cloverfield' here.
The tarradiddle of a giant reptilian causing chaos in Fresh House of York City surpassed the $35.9m premier weekend of the 'Star Wars' special edition in 1997, the previous topper for Jan.
Featuring a hurtle of unknowns, 'Cloverfield' tells its devil history from the position of a partygoer's hand-held telecasting photographic camera, which captures the mayhem as the tool crying through the city.
The film benefited from cryptic marketing that sent moviegoers on a magpie hunt to decipher clues around the movie's plot, images and even its title, which was non confirmed until shortly before its release.
'Cloverfield' is released in Hibernia on 1 Feb.
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