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...Darnielle probably touched them in the exact same way. That’s where the real power behind his depressing verses and sing-along choruses comes from—they get the demons out. Darnielle constantly scans the crowd, making eye contact with everyone, allowing his own joy to spill out over everyone. The show consisted mostly of cuts off his 2005 LP “The Sunset Tree,” as well as some standard crowd pleasers such as “No Children.” Even though “The Sunset Tree” tackles...
...October 1979, photographer Anton Corbijn, the son of a rural Dutch Protestant minister, set out for England in pursuit of Unknown Pleasures. That was the title of the dark, expansive debut album from the Manchester post-punk band Joy Division, and to Corbijn it was an artistic clarion call. "I thought, 'I want to be where that music comes from,' " says Corbijn, now 52. "It was my mission to photograph Joy Division." Within two weeks he took an iconic picture of the band that showed singer and lyricist Ian Curtis turning back toward the camera, with unwitting portent, while...
...tour, begins an affair with an exotic Belgian, leaving Debbie at home to take care of their baby and work two jobs. Racked with guilt at his own infidelity, Curtis' torment is compounded by epileptic fits - often on stage - and a fear of the additional responsibilities of looming success. Joy Division songs such as Love Will Tear Us Apart, heavy with Curtis' anguish and sense of isolation, are framed eloquently in context. And by having the actors perform the music themselves rather than mime to originals, Corbijn captures the energy of Joy Division's shows. Shot, naturally, in black...
...perhaps exorcised some ghosts along the way. He's mulling a few scripts and ideas, "none of which are music-related," he says, and he is so determined to start a new chapter that he now plans to leave England and move back to the Netherlands. "I came for Joy Division, I've made my movie," he says. Granted, it took 28 years, but Corbijn still has the time and the passion to recast his powerful vision...
...plus should be that audiences get to see mature films dealing with the joy and pain, the drama and power plays in the act of love. But those films aren't seen--worse, they aren't made--because for all the naughty words and bloody corpses in today's movies, Hollywood is a timid place, at once prurient and puritanical. It's afraid of films that show strong, subtle passions between men and women. If Lust, Caution becomes a hit--a long shot, given its 2 1/2 hr. running time and lack of marquee names--it would be bucking both...