CR Blog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Viva La Vida video by Hype Williams While some bands may scrabble to get one video made for a new single, Coldplay have two official ones for new single Viva La Vida, directed by Hype Williams and Anton Corbijn respectively. But are either of them any good? We're not sure...
Chart Rigger (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Coldplay 's "Viva La Vida" clip, directed by Anton Corbijn , premiered today. A bit after the fact at this point, no?
Last Second Thoughts (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Coldplay has gone bananas and released not one, but two videos for the track “Viva La Vida.” OK, maybe not totally bananas, but it's pretty impressive when you get both Anton Corbijn (“Heart-Shaped Box”) and Hype Williams (“Waterfalls”) to each direct different videos for the same song. Check out Corbijn's version above (where Chris Martin gives The Burger King a run for his money), and Williams' version...
Scatter o' Light (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
a cover video. says coldplay , "this is our attempt at a video cover version. made out of love for depeche mode and the genius of anton corbijn." viva la vida (official cover) video: they are "covering" a version of depeche mode's 1990 enjoy the silence video, by anton corbijn back when coldplay was scheduled to shoot their version, chris martin had said, "We're trying an experiment with [Anton]. It...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Anton Corbijn’s Joy Division/Ian Curtis biopic Control wasn’t necessarily a commercial smash hit, but it attracted a lot of attention from people in the know. Not only is the movie’s star Sam Riley rumoured to be starring in Ridley Scott’s upcoming Nottingham movie, but now the writer Matt Greenhalgh is chasing down another even bigger [...]
Chart Rigger (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The video for Coldplay 's "Viva La Vida" is interesting in that it's less Anton Corbijn -y than most Anton Corbijn videos. It does have the grainy black and white, shadowy close-up shots of each band member in the middle, but overal, given the special effects,l I'd have never guessed this was directed by the same guy that did Depeche Mode 's "Personal Jesus," U2 's "One" or The Killers ' "When You...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Filed under: Apparel Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey is basing the British fashion house's new Fall/Winter 2008-09 ad campaign on one of our favorite movies from last year, rock photographer Anton Corbijn's Control . Bailey hired Mario Testino to mimic the moody flick about Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis in the ads, which are shot in black-and-white like the movie. Sam Riley , the...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
CONTROL , ANTON CORBIJN'S EXQUISITE FEATURE DEBUT is restrained, melancholy and gorgeous, a matter-of-fact collection of the facts of the hsort life of 23-year-old Ian Curtis, frontman for the band Joy Division, who hanged himself in 1979. Sam Riley is the actor who plays Curtis, and it was one of the great, great performances of 2007. The fearful, vulnerable expressions that inhabit Riley's face:...
MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
TOM WAITS (photo: Anton Corbijn)----} Refer to the Celestial Monochord: Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues for more information... "But it would be absurd to say I've finally been "proven right." Waits has often been pretty generous in acknowledging his debts to other musicians, and folk has always been in the mix. The Anthology at Tom Waits Concerts from "KPFK Will Air...
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Between Anton Corbijn's biopic Control and its accompanying book, Joy Division is hardly suffering from a lack of exposure these days. (Pretty impressive for a band whose singer's been dead for nearly 30 years.) Still, Grant Gee's 2007 doc, Joy...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: The story of Ian Curtis and Joy Division has been told twice on film so far, once as a facet of Michael Winterbottom's 24-Hour Party People and then again as the full subject of Anton Corbijn's Control . In conjunction with the latter film, the surviving members of the band--now collectively known as New Order--took the opportunity to tell the story themselves for the...
The London Review of Breakfasts (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Breakfasts in Art #2 Control by Anton Corbijn by H.P. Seuss I do not think any reader will mind my beginning this discussion by relaying the following joke: I went to see that Joy Division film the other night. And you'll never guess who was sitting in front of me: Beth Ditto! Only she kept getting up and blocking my view. "Sit down Beth!", I cried. "You're standing in the way of Control!" Unfortunately,...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Sure, their single may be No. 1 on the digital charts and they might be planning to work with Anton Corbijn on its video , but Coldplay's label-saving album leaking last week and the president of said label being shown the door have to weigh on Chris Martin and his bandmates. And now comes the news that the band's tour has been delayed by at least two weeks, thanks to "production delays which mean...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
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...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Coldplay are set to work with film director Anton Corbijn, who won a Shockwaves NME Award earlier this year for directing 'Control', the biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.
