After the fascinating Sex Pistols documentary, I also watched a brilliant documentary on Joy Division and their music, called simply Joy Division. It is shot with such love and beauty, right down to the closing credits.

I spent a lot of my youth listening to Closer, Atmosphere, She’s Lost Control and Unknown Pleasures, Transmission and more so I should be pretty familiar with the songs. Yet this documentary really made me think again about the lyrics.

Don’t make the mistake that this is some cheap effort to cash in on the recent Control film by Anton Corbijn. This documentary, written by Jon Savage and directed by Grant Gee, stands up by itself and for me gave more of an insight into Ian Curtis than Control did. Truly beautiful and very moving. This is documentary-making at it’s best.