| competition In The Shadow of the Moon 2007, 100 mins, 35mm |
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David Sington Producers Duncan Copp |
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For moon walkers and budding astronauts,
this one’s for you. Between 1968 - 1972, the USA’s Apollo
Space Programme sent nine spacecrafts to the moon and 12 men walked upon
its surface. Sington’s film skilfully mixes a pandora’s box
of digitally re-mastered NASA archival footage with winning commentaries
from the surviving astronauts (the famously reclusive Neil Armstrong notable
in his absence). These men’s inside stories and revealing anecdotes
are brilliantly edited into a portrait of a passage of time when globally
the USA was held in the highest regard - despite concurrent events in
the Vietnam war, and the absolute universal significance of the moment
when Armstrong jumped off the ladder onto the moon’s surface. Its
spine-tingling stuff, compulsive viewing and a popular winner of the best
documentary award at Sundance 2007. |
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