Control garners no awards in Cannes

Looks like generating great buzz didn't translate into any award love for the Joy Division biopic Control at the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival. Nothing for director Anton Corbijn or breakout star Sam Riley, who plays Ian Curtis. Not that there wasn't some tangential music-world connections amongst the award winners. Helmer of the "it's a Kurt Cobain biopic but it's not" flick Last Days, Gus Van Sant, won a special prize for his latest, the skateboarding-centered Paranoia Park. And Julian Schnabel, who had David Bowie playing Andy Warhol in Basquiat, won Best Director for his French-language film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
For full details on all the winners, you can head here.
Posted in: MOVIES

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May 29, 2007 at 4:29 p.m.

Looks like the Weinsteins bought the rights to it though...http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117965888.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2568

May 30, 2007 at 12:15 a.m.

I think you mean Paranoid Park. Plague Park is the Handsome Furs album.

May 30, 2007 at 12:37 a.m.

Wow, total screw up there. Thanks for the heads up. Must have had an absolute Freudian slip after my Handsome Furs post from last week caused such a ruckus.

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