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Post by obiwan27 on Jul 16, 2019 14:30:45 GMT 12
Hi all. this Saturday 20 July is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first landing of man on the moon when Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. Screening in Christchurch at the Academy Gold cinema at The Colombo on Thursday 29 August. No timing is listed as yet. Link to movie listng here: www.artfilms.co.nz/movie/apollo-11"Todd Douglas Miller's critically lauded look back at the Apollo 11 moon landing mission led by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. "It's all here – from the colossal rocket rolling to the launch pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral, to the rows of white-shirted men with black ties watching monitors. And from Armstrong's immortal words, to the tense return to land. The director, in partnership with NASA and America's National Archives, sifted through roughly 11,000 hours of uncatalogued materials. By using long-forgotten, often large format, footage, and commentary from the era, the film puts us right into the action, and conveys a thrilling picture of how it was experienced at the time by astronauts, technicians, onlookers and the media." (Sydney Film Festival)" Plus trailer : |
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jul 16, 2019 15:31:02 GMT 12
Fantastic!! I've been watching the listings hoping it would come here. Thanks for the heads up! Must be time for a Chch forum outing?
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Post by kiwiruna on Jul 16, 2019 17:03:12 GMT 12
I've seen it an it is brilliant,I'm very familiar with Apollo 11 footage (The space program is my first best love) and to see the unseen stuff is mind blowing, It's great what is happening now in terms of footage restoration, we had this,they shall not grow old, the cold blue and the upcoming Beatles doco from Sir Peter. But back to Apollo 11, The story about how this project came about is interesting in its self the makers were working on another project in the archivies and pointed to a stack of boxes and asked what it was- Oh that's never used Apollo 11 film and audio, bear in mind everything was documented for weeks prior to launch. that was never cataloged so they had to sync up audio tapes to film in a nut shell. There is an interview on youtube about it. I believe this only the first, there is talk of other missions being done also in particular Apollo 17.
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Post by No longer identifiable on Jul 16, 2019 19:13:17 GMT 12
It's also on this Saturday at the Civic in Auckland (15:15) as part of the Auckland film festival. I got tickets a few weeks ago and they were selling fast. Here's some more info from the film festival guide: "Assembled from a newly discovered archive of 65 mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings (don’t worry, the 93-minute movie only uses a small fraction of that), Miller’s film opens with a shot of an enormous, hangar-sized crawler hauling the towering Saturn V rocket to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. And the film looks so crisp and pristine, it feels like it was shot yesterday instead of a half-century ago. Only the clothes of the Florida looky-loos tailgating to witness history, the sea of chain-smoking men in white short sleeves and pocket protectors in Mission Control, and the stentorian voice of Walter Cronkite give off a whiff of the past. Apollo 11, the mission that sent Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon (with Michael Collins lonesomely orbiting like a getaway driver), was a miracle of human endeavor and ingenuity from its fiery, booster-igniting takeoff to its ultimate splashdown. And the film chronicles each stage of the weeklong mission like a tick-tock procedural where everything could go wrong — but somehow didn’t. Miller’s visual collage charitably spreads the credit around beyond just the three men in space, too. The men and women back on terra firma are heroes as well as they crunch numbers and sweat over slide rules. This is no small thing. Not just in terms of filmmaking, but also as a reminder we could all use about how much we’re capable of as a species. That seems like something worth remembering right now. Apollo 11 — and Apollo 11 — is an inspiring, magical, and transcendent testament to human know-how, ambition, and achievement of the seemingly impossible. It’s, in a word, awesome." - Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly.
And there's this, from reviewer Joshua Rothkopf from Time Out:
"The most perfect movie that will ever be made about its subject, Apollo 11 takes the purest documentary idea imaginable—telling the story of the first journey to the moon and back using only the footage captured in the moment—and rides it all the way home. Conceptually, it’s a masterstroke: Other films have leaned into narration or interviews, while Damien Chazelle’s brooding First Man took a somewhat incidental leap into personal grief.
But by mining a trove of archival NASA footage (much of it unseen since 1969, or ever), disciplined filmmaker Todd Douglas Miller places an unmistakable emphasis on the thousands of people who toiled in modest synchronicity, pulling off America’s greatest mission without a hitch. Apollo 11 will bring you to tears: It’s a reminder of national functionality, of making the big dream happen without ego or divisiveness.
Miller’s exhilarating first act supplies an emotional catharsis that’s rare in nonfiction (or, frankly, movies in general). Quietly, the rocket is rolled out on a massive tractor platform. Crickets chirp on a hot July night. In the astronauts’ blindingly white dressing room, the three-man crew—Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin—suit up. Their personal backstories receive flurries of silent images: wedding photos, military service, children. These flashes play like insistent memories; it’s the kind of subliminal device a dramatic director might use to reveal a character’s psychology. Amazingly, this technique feels new to docs. Strictly speaking, Apollo 11 isn’t 100 percent “direct cinema”; it has an original score, a powerfully insistent collection of ascending synth drones by Matt Morton. The minimalist music amplifies the you-are-there-ness, as helicopter cameras take in crowds assembled on the Florida beach. A dad naps with his son. Women wave. Johnny Carson shows up in his shades.
The main event has all the visual elements we’ve come to expect from Hollywood—the rows of tie-wearing technicians, the shuddering vertical column of fire—but to see it for real in IMAX is awesome in the strictest sense: This actually happened. Miller doubles down on the capsule’s own cinematography as we approach the tannish-gray surface of the moon to a mere 60 feet and land in one unbroken take, maybe the most historic piece of negative ever exposed. And still, Apollo 11 never loses sight of a larger human richness, the kind that would include dorky astronaut banter, the crisp audio of Walter Cronkite’s reporting (“This is, of course, the great day for mankind”), another news flash about Edward Kennedy, mired that same weekend in a drowning incident at Chappaquiddick.
Subtly, the film draws you into the science. You’ll be nervously eyeballing ticking velocity numbers in the corner of the screen. But always, Apollo 11 is about people working together in a single-minded spirit of peaceful ambition. Miller includes both John Kennedy’s rousing 1962 speech that kicked off the multiyear project and Richard Nixon’s elegant congratulatory phone call, an unmistakable rebuke to today’s credit-hogging leadership. You come to appreciate the larger organism at work, fueled by teamwork and guided by precision. Apollo 11 won’t be surpassed, but it will serve to inspire—that’s almost guaranteed."
There ya go!
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Post by pops on Jul 19, 2019 23:06:18 GMT 12
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Post by ErrolC on Aug 31, 2019 16:15:52 GMT 12
On at the Lido, Epsom on Tuesday the 3rd, final screening before the refurbish their big cinema into two smaller ones.
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