Control (DVD, 2007, ***)

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: the weight of two worlds, bourgeois and bohemian, resting upon his skinny shoulders, and atop that,