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Peter Hook, lookin' good at the Zune party

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AT THE MOVIES

Speaking of filmic fun, Nightranger attended a screening of the new Joy Division documentary last week at Zune’s headquarters/party hub on Beverly Boulevard. Considering the dark undertones evoked by the band’s music, “fun” shouldn’t have been the operative word, but this gathering, prefaced by a DJ set from JD co-founder/bassist Peter Hook, tasty English tidbits like fish ’n’ chips and bangers and mash, and a lively Q&A with Hook and producer Tom Atencio afterward, actually was. Like Control, the theatrical film about the band, this rock doc explores Ian Curtis’ complex persona and how it affected his mates in a fascinating way. So much so that Zune made a special edition of its latest music player with JD album art and the doc loaded inside. By the way, the Microsoft device is not pronounced “Zuni” like the Indian tribe, but like “Dune/June.”... Uh, we knew that. Not. Looks like us music-movie buffs will have cellu-loads to do in L.A. the next few weeks: Director diva Allison Anders brings back her amazing Don’t Knock the Rock film fest, this year joining forces with both the Silent Movie Theater’s Cinefamily and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s Cinespia, which will host the opening night this Sunday, June 29, with a screening of rare concert film The T.A.M.I Show. Also adding spark to July, the annual Mods and Rockers movie mash at The Egyptian (with flicks about the Beatles, Love and Pink Floyd, to name a few). Even The Echoplex gets in on the screen scene with a showing of The Gits, a documentary about the Seattle punk band’s murdered lead singer, Mia Zapata, on Monday, July 7. See MySpace pages under “dontknocktherock,” “modsandrockersfestival” and the “thegitsmovie” for more info on each.