Besides Corbijn’s feature film, a self-titled Joy Division documentary is also expected to be released in coming months. That will mark three movies tied to Joy Division’s legacy; the first ...

The life of late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis is to be made into a film, it has been announced. The Manchester-based production is called Touching From A Distance, after a book by Curtis's widow ...

But the film angered some Joy Division purists by providing scant motive for the singer’s decision to commit suicide. Blame the dearth of archival Joy Division information -- largely because of ...

Control, the feature-film debut of famed photographer/video director Anton Corbjin, is a gripping interpretation of late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’s brief life, based on his wife Deborah ...

Control, the biopic about late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, has scooped five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards, including best film. Trophies were also given to star Sam Riley, who ...

The meteoric rise of Joy Division is then set into motion, with a thoughtfully brisk pace. Gee is to be commended for not rushing his film and instead letting it play out in an unassuming way ...

A film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis has picked up the Best European Film award at the Cannes Film Festival. The piece directed by newcomer Anton Corbijn impressed critics at the festival.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The tragically short life of Ian Curtis, lead singer of British indie band Joy Division, is the subject of a new film which has opened old wounds for surviving members ...

New Order were still underneath the shadow of Joy Division in 1981, a hard shackle to shake. Unsure how to progress after the death of Ian Curtis, both guitarist Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook sing ...

By The Associated Press Toronto International Film Festival TORONTO — Arriving at the best possible moment, this doc about groundbreaking postpunk band Joy Division is playing festivals ...

"I didn't see this as a story about a pop group," says Tony Wilson at the top of this documentary and he's not wrong, because Joy Division were something else entirely. Emerging from the chaos of ...