http://fortunegrey.com/2007/10/28/lost-again Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:35:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://fortunegrey.com/2007/10/28/lost-again#comment-30946 matt Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:54:30 +0000 http://fortunegrey.com/2007/10/28/shes-lost-control-again#comment-30946 Yeah I guess I wonder how much it (over-) romanticises Curtis's life too, but I also like the way it gets into his personality - he comes across as pretty reserved, but hardly a tortured soul: into glam rock, studiously working at the employment agency. I think Emmy's review gets a bit hung up on the Thatcher/rest of the band bit; Corbijn picked an angle - Curtis's personal story - and dug in. And it makes for a much more accessible story for having done that. New Order were very involved in the making of the film, so they can't be too upset with their rendering, and it's undoubtedly cemented Joy Division's position in the Official Canon of Important Artists. Yeah I guess I wonder how much it (over-) romanticises Curtis’s life too, but I also like the way it gets into his personality - he comes across as pretty reserved, but hardly a tortured soul: into glam rock, studiously working at the employment agency. I think Emmy’s review gets a bit hung up on the Thatcher/rest of the band bit; Corbijn picked an angle - Curtis’s personal story - and dug in. And it makes for a much more accessible story for having done that. New Order were very involved in the making of the film, so they can’t be too upset with their rendering, and it’s undoubtedly cemented Joy Division’s position in the Official Canon of Important Artists.

]]> http://fortunegrey.com/2007/10/28/lost-again#comment-30927 Matt Moore Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:42:36 +0000 http://fortunegrey.com/2007/10/28/shes-lost-control-again#comment-30927 S'odd. It makes decaying 70s urban life look so incredibly... stylish. Curtis/Riley dominate the film. I'd have liked a bit more of the other characters - who they are/were but it's solidly (narcissistically) about Curtis. S’odd. It makes decaying 70s urban life look so incredibly… stylish. Curtis/Riley dominate the film. I’d have liked a bit more of the other characters - who they are/were but it’s solidly (narcissistically) about Curtis.

]]> http://fortunegrey.com/2007/10/28/lost-again#comment-30926 Sean Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:04:34 +0000 http://fortunegrey.com/2007/10/28/shes-lost-control-again#comment-30926 I loved it as well. Shot so beautifully. I loved it as well. Shot so beautifully.

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