Joy Division (2007 film)

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{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Joy Division

| image = Joy Division (2007 film).jpg

| caption = British release poster

| director = Grant Gee

| producer = Tom Astor
Tom Atencio
Jacqui Edenbrow

| writer = Jon Savage

| narrator =

| starring = {{Plain list |

• Bernard Sumner
• Peter Hook
• Stephen Morris
• Peter Saville
• Tony Wilson

}}

| music = Joy Division

| cinematography = Grant Gee

| editing = Jerry Chater

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{Film date|2007}}

| runtime = 93 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Joy Division is a 2007 British documentary film on the British post-punk band Joy Division, directed by Grant Gee.{{cite news|access-date=2022-07-22|title=Review: Joy Division, QFT, Belfast|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/review-joy-division-qft-belfast-28565472.html|newspaper=Belfast Telegraph|issn=0307-1235}}{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-22|title=Review: Joy Division|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/04/tonywilson.musicdocumentary|date=3 May 2008|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-22|title=Jon Savage's documentary Joy Division is a must-see|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/nov/12/joydivisionthedocumentary|date=12 November 2007|website=The Guardian}}{{cite news|first1=Dennis|last1=Lim|access-date=2022-07-22|title=The Cult of the Lads From Manchester|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/movies/07lim.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 October 2007|issn=0362-4331}}

The film assembles TV clips, newsreel, pictures of modern Manchester and Manchester in the late 1970s, and interviews. The interviewees include the three surviving members of the group, as well as Tony Wilson, Peter Saville, Pete Shelley (of Buzzcocks), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle), Alan Hempsall (of Crispy Ambulance), Paul Morley, Terry Mason, Richard Boon, Anton Corbijn, and Belgian journalist Annik Honoré, with whom Ian Curtis was having an affair.[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/04/tonywilson.musicdocumentary The Observer Review, 4 May 2008]

Film critic Philip French: "Someone says in the film that the revolutionary step they made was to progress from the usual punk group's angry statement: 'Fuck you.' Joy Division were the first to say: 'We're fucked.' There is a particularly impressive sequence in which dark, despairing tracks of urban alienation and angst from the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures are accompanied by a speeded-up nocturnal journey around Manchester. It has the hallucinatory sci-fi feeling of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville." The person being quoted was Tony Wilson.