Home Media Magazine - December 9, 2007 - (Page Cover2) PRE-order date january 17, 2008 STREET date FEBRUARY 12, 2008 BOX OFFICE THEATRICAL RELEASE OFFICIAL SITE INTHESHADOWOFTHEMOON.COM The surviving crew members from NASA’s Apollo missions tell their story in their own words B dvd srp run time 110 mins $19.98 CRITICAL RAVES “In the Shadow of the Moon recalls the wondrous moment when America had the entire world looking up, up, and not away.” – Jim Ridley, Village Voice “In the Shadow of the Moon tells a riveting story, even if we know how it ends.” – John Thomason, Orlando Weekly “In the Shadow of the Moon is, quite simply, a revelation.” – Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer “It’s a stirring reminder of a time when anything seemed possible.” – Lou Lumenick, New York Post “A beautiful, exhilarating, and sometimes deeply moving documentary about those long-ago Apollo missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s.” – Richard Roeper,Ebert & Roeper and a tugging sense of loss.” – Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com dvd features Exclusive Message from Ron Howard Scoring Apollo: A Short Feature with Composer Philip Sheppard Filmmaker Commentary with Director David Sington, Editor David Fairhead and Archive Producer Chris Riley Deleted and Extended Scenes with over 60 minutes of stories from the Astronauts and never-before-seen footage from the Apollo missions Theatrical Trailer Images Courtesy of NASA Editor David Fairhead and director David Sington have woven this material together with a beautiful orchestral score from composer Philip Sheppard to create a moving, nostalgic and inspiring cinematic experience. Sington says, “There is a great mass of unseen matesurviving crew members from every single Apollo mission rial that, for obvious reasons of preservation, has been difficult for filmmakers to access.” The footage shot their own words. in space, some of it This riveting firstengineering footage, hand testimony is and some of it shot interwoven with visuby the astronauts ally stunning archival themselves, has spent material which has most of the last forty been re-mastered from years in cold storage, literally under liquid footage—much of it nitrogen. The material never used before. The shot on the ground, of result is an intimate training, construction, epic that vividly comand in Mission Control municates the daring, during the actual the danger, the pride, missions, is mainly and the promise of stored in Houston, this extraordinary era in the Johnson Space in history when the Center. whole world literally As David Sington looked up. notes, “What these The participating astronauts have in astronauts include Jim common is a unique – Director David Sington Lovell (Apollo 8 and experience – they are 13), Dave Scott (Apollo the only people in the 9 and 15), John Young (Apollo 10 and 16), Gene Cernan entire history of humankind to have actually left planet (Apollo 10 and 17), Mike Collins (Apollo 11), Buzz Aldrin Earth and looked back on our world from an alien vantage (Apollo 11), Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Edgar Mitchell (Apollo point. They have a perspective on our place in the universe 14), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo that none of us can fully share.” With this in mind, Sington 17). Beautifully shot by Clive North and his colleagues set out to preserve and document what the astronauts talk directly to camera. They emerge as surprisingly eloquent, witty, emotional and very human. audiences with an unprecedented opportunity to share The producers Duncan Copp and Chris Riley spent the astronaut’s privileged perspective, and to glimpse our world from their unique point of view. “I think the Apollo Space Program stands as an enThis search uncovered many gems, astonishing space during monument to the ability of the human race to do astonishing things,” Sington says by way of conclusion. rolls to reveal the Apollo program with a visual clarity and “We are a very quarrelsome and destructive species, impact it has never had before. The mute 16mm rolls shot in and we’re trashing our only home at an alarming rate Mission Control have been laboriously lip-synced with the just now. But, we’re also capable of astounding things. 16-track audio recordings of the mission controllers’ voice All too often, what we see on our screens is humanity loop to re-unite the pictures and sound of many historic at its worst. I hope In the Shadow of the Moon allows us to spend an hour and a half communing with human to many dramatic scenes. beings at their inspiring best.” etween 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and twelve men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon “I hope In the Shadow of the Moon allows us to spend an hour and a half communing with human beings at their inspiring best.” ADVERTISEMENT http://INTHESHADOWOFTHEMOON.COM http://Film.com
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