At the heart of Control
Famed photographer and video director, Anton Corbijn makes his big screen directorial debut with 'Control', his biopic on Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.
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'Control' scribe tackles Lennon
Matt Greenhalgh, the screenwriter responsible for Ian Curtis biopic 'Control', has signed on to script a film dramatising the early life of John Lennon.
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Sam Riley, the relatively green actor who channeled Joy Division's Ian Curtis for the brilliant biopic Control, has picked up the Rising Star Award at this year’s Richard Attenborough Film Awards.
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Control
A film about the tragically short life and times of Joy Division's Ian Curtis.
