For years I could never understand Joy Division, when I was a teenager most of my friends listened to them 24/7, I thought they were too depressing too dark.
Yet over the past two weeks I've had there songs on constant rotation on my ipod.
Now that I'm about to turn thirty, all my friends seem to have outgrown them and I now finally get them, I just don't know why it took me so long, approaching mid life crisis perhaps.
Anton Corbijn a commercail photographer I have admired for some time, one of those rare breeds (in the 1% perhaps) whose personal work matches his commercial paid work, and visa versa.
He has now gone into film making and his debut feature film "control" was released in 1997, based on the tragic life of Joy Divisions front man Ian Curtis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5KfIhtto0w
Frame for frame it's a beautifully shot movie, with Corbijn successfully making the transition from stills to movie.
