Joy Division (The Miriam Collection)

Joy Division (The Miriam Collection)
by Grant Gee

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Actor: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Peter Saville, Stephen Morris, Tony Wilson
Director: Grant Gee
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: The Weinstein Company

DVD Reviews of Joy Division (The Miriam Collection)

DVD Review: Superb Doco.
Summary: 5 Stars

Apart from the significant absence of Curtis's wife, this is about as full a report on the genesis,productivity and impact of this Manchester band. Even those who aren't devotees of this bleak, funereal chanting will discover something triumphant in the story. Far from superceeding Corbin's re-creation of the life and times with his beautifully haunting film,Control, I reckon it makes a wonderful companion piece. Further,the quality, the cutting, the drama in both, are so eloquently stated that its likely you'll be up for viewing the two in tandem.

DVD Review: Great DVD features and film
Summary: 5 Stars

Very impressive. The film, well you've seen the reviews here about the actual documentary and how this is an essential companion to Control and all that's true. But the Joy Division DVD is loaded with features including several bonus interviews which really adds to the original film. A very striking post-film bit on the special features is Sumners whining about U2. Wow, he really goes off on U2 and how they "ripped off" JD. Huh? Just a very brief rant but very telling on Sumners' frame of mind which is bitter to say the least. I guess selling 20 million albums as New Order wasn't satisfactory enough. JD's a great band, but U2 they ain't, sorry. Still, this DVD is excellent. Get it. Interesting footnote and historical fact, the final segment of the actual film closes out with the song "Atmosphere" as a music bed, EXACT same musical ending as in Control.

DVD Review: Epic.
Summary: 5 Stars

Joy Division gives any viewer insight to not just the band from Warsaw through New Order but the members themselves. Grant Gee uses a great amount of live footage, photos, and interviews to give an indepth view and information of Joy Division and the overall Manchester music scene of the time including Paul Morley, Martin Hannett and Factory Records. Highly recommended to any fan of Joy Division, if you like this be sure to see Control by Anton Corbijn.

DVD Review: You want more?
Summary: 5 Stars

Though I bought the DVD for the documentary, but am ecstatic about the 75 minutes of additional interviews. Not filler or superfluous information, but tidbits that any fan would want to hear about. I'm guessing these extra bits were left out to keep the "main" documentary concise and have an overall narrative.

I smiled along with Hooky as he recounts playing Transmission to "three Goth kids" amongst a generally hostile crowd at a dance club.

DVD Review: Could not play the DVD with 2 Lap Tops
Summary: 1 Stars

The DVD could not be played with two different region 1 set DVD players in
two different Lap Tops. That's why I sent the DVD back.
Thank you and best regards,
Andreas Krumbein

Description of Joy Division (The Miriam Collection)

Joy Division is a "fascinating look at the brief but vital trajectory of a band that died with its troubled frontman, Ian Curtis" (Jason Gargano, Cincinnati CityBeat), only to be reborn as the equally influential New Order. Featuring interviews with all surviving band members, Joy Division explores the Manchester origins of this revolutionary act, their partnership with Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, and collaboration with legendary producer Martin Hannett.

While Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People took on impresario Tony Wilson and Anton Corbijn's Control concentrated on singer Ian Curtis, Grant Gee's Joy Division opts for non-fiction over biopic. Together, the three films create a multi-dimensional portrait of Manchester in the post-punk era. Curtis's minimalist quartet arose simultaneously as a product of and a reaction to their industrial environment. As Factory Records co-founder Wilson states, "I don't see this as the story of a pop group, I see this as the story of a city that once upon a time was shiny and bold and revolutionary." (Wilson succumbed to cancer shortly afterwards.) Written by Jon Savage (England's Dreaming), the narrative follows the oral history form. Aside from the surviving members of the band, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris (Curtis committed suicide in 1980), other speakers include designer Peter Saville, Curtis's girlfriend Annik Honor?, and musician Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle). Only Curtis's wife, Deborah, chose not to appear on camera, so Gee (Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy) uses text from her biography, Touching from a Distance. Loaded with rare audio and visual material, like Joy Division's aborted RCA sessions and manager Rob Gretton's notes, Gee presents the definitive documentary of a timeless band. Unlike Corbijn's stately feature, his stylish tribute ends on a more optimistic note: with the birth of New Order in the 1980s and the re-birth of Manchester in the 2000s. Extra features include 75 minutes of bonus interviews and a BBC performance of "Transmission." --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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