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Film: Documentary
Joy Division

When

May 2–8

Daily

Where
Roxie New College Film Center (3117 16th St, 415.863.1087)
Price
$9
Details
http://www.roxie.com/events/details.cfm?eventID=CE8AF627-F1F6-5CD4-11F42CF1799AD8A9
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When Grant Gee's documentary portrait of the iconic Manchester post-punk band Joy Division played at Yerba Buena last January, legions of Ian Curtis fans made it a sellout; now the exemplary film is playing a more comfortable one-week run at the Roxie. A Joy Division doc was inevitable, but Grant Gee and researcher-writer Jon Savage took their time with this one, lucidly reconstructing the band's meteoric rise. A necessary supplement to last year's Ian Curtis biopic Control, Joy Division does an especially sharp job conveying the excitement of the band's shattering sound.

Max Goldberg