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Film details
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Featuring
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Countries
Australia United Kingdom Japan
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Year
2007
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Touching from a Distance Alternative
Introduction
“I really enjoyed it – but it was like having your heart stamped on. The weirdest thing was at the end, when it really hurt and everybody started clapping. It would’ve been nice to have a dignified silence.”
Peter Hook, Joy Division bassist, interviewed in XFM magazine
The short-lived but supremely influential band Joy Division owed their image to three people: designer Peter Saville and photographers Kevin Cummings and Anton Corbijn. All worked in black and white, an aesthetic decision maintained by Corbijn when he chose the band’s frontman and lyricist Ian Curtis as the subject of his debut feature.
Tracing Curtis’s life from pretentious teenage scribbler in 1973 to his suicide in 1980 at twenty-three, the film shows how the band’s music grew out of Manchester’s post-industrial landscape and captured the mood of the times, when the exhilaration of punk had given way to something more ominous and fearful. A dead ringer for a man that Corbijn knew personally, Sam Riley is outstanding as Curtis, and the decision to let the actors play their own instruments creates a vivid impression of what Joy Division must have been like live – very different from the chilly precision of their records.
There are three excellent but very different films about Joy Division: this, Michael Winterbottom’s rollicking 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Grant Gee’s just-the-facts documentary Joy Division (2007).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Debbie Curtis
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Ian Curtis
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Annik Honoré
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Hooky
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Rob Gretton
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Tony Wilson
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Bernard Sumner
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Steve Morris
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Terry
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Twinny
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Ian's father
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Ian's mother
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Ian's sister
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Nick
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chemistry teacher
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Mrs Brady
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Debbie's mother
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Martin Hannet
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himself
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MC
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Colin
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Corrine
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Corrine's mother
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studio owner
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other band manager
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local GP
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hospital doctor
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Earnest
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maternity nurse
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Alan from Crispy Ambulance
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Claire
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footballing kid
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Tony Wilson's girlfriend
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Gillian Gilbert
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baby Natalie
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Credits
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Presented in association with
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International Sales Agent
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Produced by
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Produced by
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Produced by
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For BI/DF (International Sales Agent)
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For BI/DF (General Manager, Dendy Films)
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For BI/DF (General Manager, Dendy Films)
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For BI/DF (Head of Sales/Acquisitions BI
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For BI/DF (Head of Finance/Operations)
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For BI/DF (Sales Exec/Operations Manager
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For BI/DF (Sales/Events Co-ordinator)
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For Warner Music UK
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For Warner Music UK
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For EM Media (Head of Communications)
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For EM Media (Communications Executive)
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For EM Media (Location Services)
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For EM Media (Location Services)
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For IFF/CINV (Business Affairs)
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Production/Post Accountant
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Locations Scout
Casting:
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Casting Director
Writing:
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Screenplay by
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Based on book 'Touching from a Distance'
Photography:
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Cinematographer
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Camera Operator (B)
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Focus Puller (B Camera)
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Clapper Loader
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Grip
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Video Playback Assistant
Stills:
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Stills Photographer
Special Effects:
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Graphics Designer
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Design:
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Production Buyer
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Props Master
Costumes:
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Wardrobe Supervisor
Make-up:
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Make-up/Hair Design
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Make-up/Hair Artist
Titles:
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Titles Design
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Titles Consultancy
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Titles Production
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Main/End Credits
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Colour Grading
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Lab
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Lab (Sweden)
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Music:
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Music Score by
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Live Music Recorded/Engineered by
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Live Music Mixed by
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Sound Co-ordinator
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Sound Recordist
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Sound Maintenance
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Sound Assistant
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Re-recording Mixer
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Re-recording Mixer
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UK Sound Post-production/ADR Recording
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Sweden Post Sound
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Supervising Sound Editor (Sweden)
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Supervising Sound Editor (UK)
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Band Rehearsal Coach
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Special Thanks to
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Special Thanks to
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Special Thanks to
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Special Thanks to
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Special Thanks to
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Special Thanks to
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Special Thanks to
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Special Thanks to
Publicity:
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Unit Publicists
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Unit Publicist
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Unit Publicist
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EPK Main Camera
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EPK 2nd Camera
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Sight & Sound magazine
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Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine.
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