the S2 and S3 premieres) of focusing on Jack's played-out relationship with his father. But at least read the transcripts first so you know what the deuce I'm talking about.Īn underwhelming debut for the mobisodes, as takes the traditional LOST beginning (i.e. In case ABC.com is being wonky and you don't own a Verizon phone, you can always check the transcripts of these mobisodes here, or just read my mini-reviews of them here.wait, no fancy link needed, just read below. My appetite for new Lost-related material has slowly been whetted by the Hidden Pieces 'mobisodes' that have been released through Verizon phones and the ABC website. I have no earthly idea of what might happen in the eight (or hopefully more) episodes we're going to get, but I'm reasonably certain it'll range from awesome to incredibly awesome.
So it felt very proper to the project.The new series of Lost arrives to save this void of a TV season Thursday night, and I can't wait. “There is basically no color photography of that band around. “My whole memory of that period is black and white,” he said. The rockumentary ‘U2 3D’, which premieres Saturday, promises to let audiences see Bono, The Edge and bandmates, not only in color, but in eye-popping 3D.Ĭorbijn-who captured U2 in black and white for the ‘Joshua Tree’ album cover-said he never considered shooting his Joy Division film in color. The other film flying the flag for rock ‘n’ roll at Cannes is the multicolored opposite of ‘Control’.
Joy Division’s songs were convincingly re-created for the film by the actors, who all played their own instruments. Shot through with down-to-earth northern English humor, it features a soundtrack that runs from David Bowie and Roxy Music to the Sex Pistols. The surviving band members went on to found ’80s hitmakers New Order.Īdapted from a memoir by Curtis’ widow Deborah-played in the film by Samantha Morton – ‘Control’ is an intense but far from grim experience. Since then, Joy Division has been cited as an influence by Nine Inch Nails and U2, among others. Curtis, troubled by a failing marriage and worsening epilepsy, killed himself in 1980, on the eve of the band’s first U.S.
One of the most original was Joy Division, which melded guitars and electronica with Curtis’s baritone voice to create striking songs like ‘Transmission’ and ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’. It is set in northern England in the late 1970s, a place of gray skies and grim prospects that produced a slew of original and innovative bands, from the Buzzcocks to The Fall. Pale and big-eyed, Riley resembles Curtis-but more importantly, said Corbijn, he “had an innocence and a freshness that I was hoping for but never thought I would find.”įans of music from the English city of Manchester, especially those who have seen Michael Winterbottom’s ‘24 Hour Party People’, will recognize the film’s milieu. “When I met Sam it was also in the winter and he was totally the same.” “A lot of bands I met, including Joy Division, were kind of underdressed-a thin coat on, smoking and shivering in the cold,” he said. When he moved to Britain in 1979, Corbijn said he was shocked by the country’s austerity and poverty. He said he knew as soon as he met Riley that he was perfect for the part. Netherlands-born Corbijn, who turns 52 on Sunday, photographed Joy Division for British music magazines and went on to design album covers for Depeche Mode and U2. He is riveting as Curtis, an intense, charismatic performer who often appeared remote offstage. If the enthusiastic reception in Cannes is any indication, Riley can give up the day job. When Riley heard about auditions for the film, “I was working in a warehouse in Leeds, folding shirts.”
“I don’t think we ever troubled the charts,” he said drily. The part came out of the blue for Riley, 27, who had abandoned an acting career to take an unsuccessful shot at fame with his band 10,000 Things. Shot in stark black-and-white and set in gritty, unglamorous 1970s England, it re-creates the life of a singer who died unhappy and almost unknown but has secured a place in rock mythology. But -‘Control’, which opened the film festival’ss Directors’s Fortnight on Thursday, is far from a standard showbiz biopic. The ingredients are familiar-a soupcon of sex, a dash of drugs, a blast of rock ‘n’ roll. ‘Control’-the story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide at 23 – marks the feature-film directing debut of rock photographer Anton Corbijn and features a star-making performance from British unknown Sam Riley. CANNES, France (AP) - A small film about a short-lived rock star is making a big splash at Cannes.