Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said that the band’s video for “Viva La Vida,” which will be directed by music video lifer Anton Corbijn, would be an “experiment” that “could be a disaster, but it could be OK.” Me, I’m just hoping that it has slightly more depth than Control, which seems less like a movie and more like a string of music-video concepts that was only held together by Samantha Morton’s spectacular performance with each passing day. [NME]
June 9th, 2008 // 4 Comments
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I’m glad we’re copping to being a little meh on Control. I’m glad I saw it on a big screen, but it was dramatically inert. To wit, I detected in all the film critics’ rave reviews a near-total ignorance of JD’s story that left them unable to see the lack of drama. (To be fair, we music geeks probably know the story too well and are harder to impress.) Besides the stunning visual compositions, the best part was the young band’s first live Grenada TV performance of “Transmission,” which was spring-loaded with tension and thrill – natch, this kind of thing is Corbijn’s strong suit. If the whole movie had been that live-wire, it would have been truly great.
For the record, the simultaneously released JD documentary, simply called Joy Division, finally hits DVD tomorrow and is at the top of my Netflix queue.
And plus Control had to deal whole innate “New Order > Joy Division by a zillion miles” factor.
As a fan of JD and NO, I watched Control and found it very depressing as a whole. I’ve always enjoyed his videos for Depeche Mode and even the clip for JD’s “Atmosphere”. To me it lends credit to Coldplay to pick him to shoot it. Hope it turns out as good as it can.
fuck all of you.