Music Break: the music of Joy Division performed by Sam Riley in CONTROL (2007)

It's been nearly a month since I saw this rock biopic, but I'm still haunted by Control. I mentioned in this post that no other film affected me quite like this one. It's a beautiful film in so many ways, the cinematography, the acting, the dialog… but it's also a sad, utterly heartbreaking film that …

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Blogathon – A Most Wanted Man (2014) review

This review is part of Epileptic Moondancer's PSH blogathon. I selected the second last completed movie by Hoffman before his death. He died a week after the premiere of the film at the Sundance Film Festival. A Most Wanted Man A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror. …

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