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Control

January 2024

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem to Control – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The pizza-loving amphibians get a zippy, funny reboot featuring a vintage hip-hop soundtrack, while Anton Corbijn’s stark biopic is graced by an absolutely uncanny impersonation of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis

June 2020

  • Maleficent Mistress of Evil UK premiere in London<br>epa07908553 British actor/cast member Sam Riley attends the UK premiere of 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' in London, Britain, 09 October 2019. The film will be released in the UK on 18 October. EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL

    Sam Riley: 'The closer I got to fame, the more frightened I was of it'

    He made his name playing Ian Curtis then found himself in Disney films with Angelina Jolie, but has his current turn as Marie Curie’s husband really taught him how to make a bomb?

October 2014

  • Captured lives: Angela Bassett in What's Love Got To Do With it and Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line

    Musical biopics: how to hit the right note

    Is it the truth, warts’n’all, that a documentary can deliver – or an epic backstory of struggle against adversity that a great actor can sink their teeth into, asks Michael Hann

December 2007

  • How a young wannabe took Control at Cannes

    Sam Riley was the unknown star of the Ian Curtis biopic Control, which won Best European Film at the Directors' Fortnight sidebar at Cannes Film Festival and five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards last month

November 2007

  • Music blog
    Jon Savage's documentary Joy Division is a must-see

    Hot on the heels of Control comes this poweful film that perhaps goes even deeper in exploring the reasons for Ian Curtis's suicide

October 2007

  • Control heads indie film shortlist

    Ian Curtis biopic leads the way at this year's British Independent Film Awards with an impressive 10 nominations.

  • Film blog
    Film Weekly meets Control's Samantha Morton

    This week I've got Control stars Samantha Morton and Sam Riley. Plus: And When Did You Last See Your Father director Anand Tucker.

  • The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly 04/10/07

    In this week's Film Weekly podcast, Jason Solomons interviews Samantha Morton and Sam Riley, the stars of the Joy Division biopic Control. And there's a lively chat with director Anand Tucker, director of the moving memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father?

September 2007

  • On the set of Control

  • Music blog
    Unseen pleasures

May 2007

  • The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly: 25.05.2007

  • 2007, CONTROL<br>SAM RILEY Character(s): Ian Curtis Film 'CONTROL' (2007) Directed By ANTON CORBIJN 17 May 2007 SAM46791 Allstar/MOMENTUM PICTURES (USA/UK/AUS/JP 2007) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MOMENTUM PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MOMENTUM PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Control review – Ian Curtis biopic played as thwarted Wordsworthian romantic

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