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Control
2007 · Film · 122 min
Directed by Anton Corbijn
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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There's a reason for it: it's designed so that a page of text translates to more or less one minute of screen time, so you can get a reliable estimate of how long the movie will run by looking at the page count.
(Source: I took a screenwriting class when I was living in LA. If you live in LA long enough and you don't write a screenplay they kick you out.)
(Here is the screenplay I wrote, in case anyone is interested: http://flownet.com/ron/control.pdf)
The "Control" movie is nice too (at least from the point of view of someone who likes JD without being the biggest fan)
"24 Hour Party People" covers the music scene in Manchester at the time, including Joy Division:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274309/
It's good fun (apart from the obvious not fun bit) but nowhere as good as Control.