... dokumentarni film o usponu i padu jedne od najutjecajnijih izdavackih kuca u Velikoj Britanija.
Factory je osnovao Tony Wilson u kasnim 70-tim godinama. Za Factory su izdavala imena poput Joy Divisiona, Happy Mondaysa i New Ordera.
The rise and fall of the most influential and successful independent record label in British rock music history.
In a dark, northern city in the late 70s, five dreamers built a record label - Factory; three classic bands - Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, and Britain's first super club - The Hacienda.
Led by Tony Wilson, they created a unique collision between conceptual art and street music. This is the story of how a TV presenter, an out of work actor, an art student, a DJ and an aspiring record producer pioneered Britain's independent pop culture, imagined a new Manchester, and blew a shed-load of money.
Produced and directed by Chris Rodley in the last three months and featuring an extensive interview with Factory's creative genius, Anthony Wilson, who sadly died on Friday, August 10, 2007, this 90 documentary celebrates the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Factory and is a fitting tribute to Wilson's contributio n to British pop culture and to Manchester. With its contracts signed in blood and record sleeves made of sandpaper, it turned bad business into an art form and makes those Chaos At The Chateau types look like Sir Alan Sugar.
Many of the more colourful anecdotes - like sending Happy Mondays to record in heroin-free Barbados, not realising the island was crack central - were told in the film 24 Hour Party People.
But they're worth telling again - especially since the death of Factory founder Tony Wilson who's interviewed at length here.
So too are Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner of New Order whose single Blue Monday became the biggest selling 12 inch of all time, losing money with every copy sold. They recall how the suicide of Joy Division's Ian Curtis came as a shock because they'd never listened to his lyrics.
And fans who still treasure their Joy Division and Durutti Column albums may be surprised to hear how much the bands hated what Factory's in-house producer Martin Hannett did to their sound.
Recalls Hooky drily: "You could take any band - they could have been together for four weeks or 40 years.
"And if they were getting on, Martin Hannett would have them at each other's throats in two days."
Tony Wilsons life ended on August 10th, 2007 (heart attack). He was buried in Southern Cemetery. His coffin was numbered FAC 501.
Director, Chris Rodley: The initial idea was to structure the film around two interviews with Tony Wilson, the first to be done immediately, and a second to be done much later - when we'd interviewed everyone else who was willing and available to talk. But like most plans for documentaries, this wasn't to be.
Despite his obvious frailty, Wilson went on the offensive immediately. Meeting at a restaurant with myself and Jane Maugham - Assistant Producer on the film - the night before shooting, he checked our credentials at the table by calling friends who might have seen other films we'd made (my recent film about Gilbert and George for the BBC's 'Imagine' series and Jane's film about The Fall). "Were they any good, because I'm sitting with the makers right now?" Apparently they were. Tony liked to think of himself as tough. As he said: "I'm a c***t". He wasn't.
Our challenge was that our cast comprised the real 24-hour party people, and that the job of the documentary is to deliver the reality and facts of a situation. Luckily for us, the so-called truth behind the Factory myth turned out to be more interesting, outrageous and - in some cases - downright unbelievable than the legend. Interviewing Shaun Ryder proves yet again what James Dean-obsessed method actors and Andy Warhol knew viscerally - that there's no place to hide in front of a camera. His pauses are the gold.
If it's words you're after, Paul Ryder's alarming honesty is every director's wet dream, as is Stephen Morris' sense of humour and delivery in the face of obvious absurdity and madness. And there's no mistaking the kind of brilliant conclusions that come so easily to characters like Peter Saville and Paul Morley - real players unafraid of viewing Factory's achievements in a pretentious-sounding kind of way: Factory as a 'social experiment', as a cultural force, as a manifestation of Tony Wilson's ego. The kind of talk the label's bands often laugh about: the kind of talk that Peter Hook calls "arty bullshit".
Factory's story plays like a very old, familiar drama, but with a brilliant new musical score and a fabulously wayward cast. Its star player has, sadly, died and there is no understudy able to fill his shoes. But I'm forgetting ... they hate this kind of crap up in Manchester.
Listing of all the music played on the documentary:
Part One: The Early Shift New Order. 'Blue Monday'
Joy Division. 'Heart and Soul'
Sex Pistols. 'Pretty Vacant'
Buzzcocks. ''Friends of Mine'
Sex Pistols. 'Unidentified'
Warsaw. 'Transmission'
Patti Smith. ''Kimberley'
The Durutti Column. ''Experiment on 5th'
Section 25. ''c.p.'
Joy Division. ''Digital'
Joy Division. ''Heart and Soul'
Buzzcocks. 'Boredom'
Warsaw. 'Novelty'
The Beatles. 'Magical Mystery Tour'
Joy Division. ''Day of the Lords'
Joy Division. 'I Remember Nothing'
Part Two: The Late Shift
The Durutti Column. 'Beginning'
Joy Division. 'The Eternal'
The B52s. 'Lava'
New Order. 'The him'
Tears for Fears. 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World'
The Durutti Column. 'Sketch for Winter'
Section 25. 'c.p.'
The Smiths. 'How Soon is Now'
The Smiths. 'What Difference does it Make'
New Order. 'Blue Monday'
OMD. 'Enola Gay'
Happy Mondays. 'Delightful'
Part Three: The Graveyard Shift
Rhythm is Rhythm. 'Strings of Life'
Happy Mondays. 'Loose Fit'
808 State. 'Pacific State'
Happy Mondays. 'Step On'
Happy Mondays. 'Neto'
New Order. 'Fine Time'
Happy Mondays. 'Cut ‘erm Loose, Bruce'
Happy Mondays. '24 hour party people'
The Durutti Column. 'Requiem again'
New Order. 'Truth'
Joy Division. 'Day of the Lords'
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