{"id":550,"date":"2007-08-31T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T13:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/control\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T13:12:44","slug":"control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/control\/","title":{"rendered":"Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the David Bowie<\/a> news page<\/a>. I am kind of totally psyched about this. Maybe the album more so than the movie. Conjures up nostalgic memories of my dark, depressed high school days…<\/p>\n

If I Can’t Control My Destiny<\/span><\/p>\n

Like many of the musicians of his generation (and beyond) with anything worth saying, Ian Curtis<\/a><\/strong>, late singer of Joy Division<\/a><\/strong> and subject of new movie, Control<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, was clearly a huge fan of the work of David Bowie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Control<\/em> OST album, due via Warner on October 3rd, includes three Bowie compositions: Iggy Pop<\/a><\/strong>‘s version of Sister Midnight<\/em> (Bowie\/Pop\/Alomar) and two Bowie originals: Drive In Saturday<\/em> (Bowie) and Warszawa<\/em> (Bowie\/Eno).<\/p>\n

In fact, Warszawa<\/a><\/em> was the track that inspired Joy Division’s first name, Warsaw<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the film itself utilises The Jean Genie<\/em> to superb effect (please excuse low quality grab below) when the teenage Curtis is shown miming barechested to the song in front of his bedroom mirror.<\/p>\n

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Curtis, who hanged himself aged 23 in May 1980 while The Idiot<\/em> played on his turntable, is portrayed brilliantly throughout the film by actor Sam Riley<\/a><\/strong>. Likewise, the lonely figure of the tragic singer’s wife, Deborah Curtis<\/a><\/strong>, played by Samantha Morton<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Control<\/em> is the feature length debut of photographer\/director Anton Corbijn<\/a><\/strong> who was responsible for the best known and more memorable images of Ian Curtis and Joy Division…and he’s taken some pretty impressive pictures of David Bowie too, for that matter.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with the tracklisting for the Control<\/em> OST album, which is just about as cool as the movie that The Independent newspaper has already dubbed “The coolest British movie of 2007”.<\/em> <\/p>\n