Is this a movies or music post? Who knows.
I saw Control, the Ian Curtis movie Friday night. Really well acted, and beautifully shot in B&W. It's mostly about the personal decline of Curtis. There's very little about the development of their sound, but a fair amount of coverage of the band live. Martin Hannett appears in one brief studio scene close to the end of the film, and isn't mentioned otherwise.
I've been thinking a lot about Joy Division since. It's meant recontextualizing the band, since personally they're tied to the mid-1980's when I was really discovering that music. And by that time, they were mythical. But really, the music of the 1980's was their legacy. Ian Curtis died in 1980, when I was only 10, listening to Rick Springfield and the BeeGees. It blows my mind a little to think of that music existing alongside all the top-40 radio that I associate with the late '70s, and that it's survived.
The other thing is that I also realized that what Joy Division music I had is gone. I think I had Closer and a later singles album on cassette, and I've been sloughing off that collection over the past few years, since I have no way of playing anymore.
ETA: Also the movie brought back the horrors of late70s/early 80s fashion. Pleated pants made of what I could tell were horrible scratchy polyblends. Shudder.