In the Shadow of the Moon
United Kingdom, United States
2007
109 Min
Color, Black and White
1.85:1
English, French, Japanese
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In the 1960s, US President John F Kennedy proposed landing a man on the moon before the decade was finished. This film has interviews with most of the surviving astronauts of the Apollo program who were making ready to make that great voyage with an army of experts determined to make the endeavor possible. Through training, tragedy and triumph, we follow the greatest moments of one of Humanity’s great achievements. –IMDb
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Jeremiah Hammerling
19Jan12
Just watching the POV footage on the lunar rover is worth it alone. The stuff of dreams. There are also some great metaphysical musings by the astronauts looking back at earth, revolving around the moon, that are particularly refreshing. A spirituality that rises beyond religions and dogmas from staring at floating rocks in space. One particularly fragile blue jewel vanishing in a sea of limitless black.
StellaWasaDiver
20Jan11
Great footage and interviews. The score by Philip Shepard could be described as predictably uplifting, somewhat over-present, and full of that wondrous awe-type music with choral oohs and ahs. I liked Eno's score in For All Mankind better. Or Philip Glass is always a good choice for pretty much anything.
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In the Shadow of the Moon vs. For All Mankind
By StellaWasaDiver on January 20, 2011
Ron Howard’s In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) essentially remakes Al Reinert’s For All Mankind (1989), utilizing the vast collection of archive footage relating to the space program and from the missions… read review
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