Biopic Ian Curtis. What raises it to an unmissable one is Sam Riley's eerie impersonation of Curtis, not just in his opaque, wanly innocent face and the defeated hang of his shoulders, but in those moments on stage when the. Corbijn's biopic of Ian Curtis, based on his widow Deborah's book, Touching From A Distance, suffers pretty much from all the above faults.
Ian Curtis was born in Old Trafford, Manchester, at the Memorial Hospital. Request: Control, the biopic on Ian Curtis. A good grower of hair & captain of @STRMTCP.
Control, the heavily-anticipated biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, has picked up two awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ian Curtis's fame lives on years after his death.
It felt to me like someone read the Joy Division/Ian Curtis wikipedia page and just turned it into a film. His account of his life features an extraordinary performance from Sam Riley, writes Sukhdev Sandhu. The memorial stone dedicated to former Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis has been stolen from a Cheshire cemetery.