This is the first in a series of interviews we will be conducting with those rare individuals we feel will be recognized come award season. We recently got a chance to sit down with Anton and discuss his new film Control, which is being released October 10th, 2007. It's a standout performance that pushes the film into the upper echelon of music related docudramas. Sam Riley brings this dark, violently passionate soul to the surface, and actually makes us care about the life of Ian Curtis. He brings a new vision and structure to the musical biopic, miraculously expanding the walls of that genre. Suffering from epileptic seizures and torn between the love of two women, Ian took his own life at the young age of 23.Ĭorbijn captures this short, powerful life in a series of black and white images that come on like a foggy dream or some kind of distant memory.
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The movie follows the life of Joy Division lead singer and songwriter Ian Curtis, one of the more tragic figures to come out of the rock landscape of the early Seventies. The project marks famed video director and still photographer Anton Corbijn's first trek into the realm of narrative features. Oscar Watch 2008 Interview #1: Director Anton CorbijnĬontrol is the type of movie that seems to come out of nowhere, packing the punch of a Herculean God in a Greek myth. The famous video director talks about bringing Ian Curtis back to life The famous video director talks about bringing Ian Curtis back to life.
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