After the incredible success of the Ian Curtis biopic movie, Control, the Salford Film Festival is pleased to announce the first North West screening of Joy Division: The Documentary, Tues 27th November 8:30pm, Vue Cinema, Lowry Outlet Mall, Salford Quay. Tickets £6.25 Box Office: 08712 240 240 (get there early Man U are playing at home!)
The feature film length documentary will be introduced by Joy Division and New Order legend Peter Hook, with a Q&A session afterwards. Written by author and original Joy Division fan/friend, Jon Savage, the doc is a factual account of actual events surrounding the band almost three decades ago. It includes interviews with all the surviving band members and an exclusive chat with Ian Curtis’s “mistress” Annik Honore, who speaks about Ian for the first time. The doc also has lots of archive footage of Manchester and Salford, plus extracts from many filmed concerts that have never been seen before.
Says Peter Hook: “Control is a cinematic version of events, it doesn’t provide all the answers. But the documentary is in our own words, the people who were there, talking about it. The Documentary did really well when it was premiered at the Toronto Film Festival -four sell out nights just by word of mouth – so it really is on the crest of a wave this Joy Division thing, it absolutely amazes me. When I saw it I was like `Wow this is pretty good this’, I was quite surprised. I thought I’d be Joy Divisioned out and yet if I’m interested in it. . .”
