Tolling the Division Bell
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There probably won’t be a better-looking film this year than “Control.” Though it wasn’t inevitable that Ian Curtis, the haunting and haunted singer for the British post-punk band Joy Division, would become fodder for a biopic, it was pretty obvious that only one man should direct it: Anton Corbijn, a Dutch photographer whose stark, black-and-white images probably did as much to immortalize the short-lived group as Curtis’s 1980 suicide.
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