13-August-2007, 06:57 PM
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Film Review – 'In the Shadow of the Moon'
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Countless documentaries have attempted to capture the essence of what it was like to fly to the moon during the glory days of the Apollo program. Some have been fairly successful, but usually still feature the standard talking heads and grainy umpteenth-generation film footage. One notable previous exception was Al Reinert's 1989 work, "For All Mankind." This was the first attempt to get Apollo footage onto a large theater screen, and is regarded favorably by most who had the opportunity to see it in that format.
Now, nearly 20 years later, we finally have a worthy successor in David Sington's "In the Shadow of the Moon." Unlike so much that has come and gone before, Sington has reinvented the Apollo documentary format. Where the earlier film left us wanting much more, this time around we finally get that which we've been waiting for so long. Beautiful and rarely seen footage has been taken from the archives at NASA, transferred to high-definition video, and given new life in a way never before imagined.
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