Stars: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad | Directed by Al Reinert
Nasa’s historic Apollo programme only becomes more fascinating as time passes and technology advances. Ahead of the release of Todd Douglas Miller’s Apollo 11, Criterion are offering a chance to see another Space Race documentary, similarly relying on remastered Nasa footage and the voices of people involved in those groundbreaking (ground-leaving?) space missions, some fifty years ago.
Charitably, director Al Reinert and editor Susan Korda don’t just focus on the first Moon landing, but rather cover multiple ventures, from Apollo 8 through to the final Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Six years in the making, this 1989 version is only slightly less barebones than its original 1983 format. There’s little information about who is speaking at any given moment, or even which mission we’re watching (tip: turn on the subtitles). Some of the post-dubbed sound...
Nasa’s historic Apollo programme only becomes more fascinating as time passes and technology advances. Ahead of the release of Todd Douglas Miller’s Apollo 11, Criterion are offering a chance to see another Space Race documentary, similarly relying on remastered Nasa footage and the voices of people involved in those groundbreaking (ground-leaving?) space missions, some fifty years ago.
Charitably, director Al Reinert and editor Susan Korda don’t just focus on the first Moon landing, but rather cover multiple ventures, from Apollo 8 through to the final Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Six years in the making, this 1989 version is only slightly less barebones than its original 1983 format. There’s little information about who is speaking at any given moment, or even which mission we’re watching (tip: turn on the subtitles). Some of the post-dubbed sound...
- 6/25/2019
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Washington, Apr.13: American Indie rock band called Broken Bells has said that they would be donating one dollar from every ticket of their gig to help protect Earth from asteroids.
The band has reportedly collaborated with the B612 Foundation - a non-profit organization dedicated for this exact purpose.
Fans who will buy the tickets to the after party can also expect to see foundation notables like Dr. Marc Buie, who is the mission specialist on the Sentinel project, and Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut and a co-founder of B612, the Verge reported.
The donation made by the band is an attempt to spread awareness and funding for the deep space telescope that the non-profit organization is planning to launch.
The band has reportedly collaborated with the B612 Foundation - a non-profit organization dedicated for this exact purpose.
Fans who will buy the tickets to the after party can also expect to see foundation notables like Dr. Marc Buie, who is the mission specialist on the Sentinel project, and Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut and a co-founder of B612, the Verge reported.
The donation made by the band is an attempt to spread awareness and funding for the deep space telescope that the non-profit organization is planning to launch.
- 4/13/2014
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Crusty eco-hippies spin random anecdotes about olden times in "Earth Days," a turgid documentary on the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s.
The movie, which grandly introduces authors and activists such as hippie astronaut Rusty Schweickart and the guy who wrote The Whole Earth Catalog, mingles campy footage of
Eisenhower-era wonderment with doom-laden futurism and images of hippies beating up an innocent car with sledgehammers at 1970's first Earth Day.
This bongs-and-bongos gang's preposterously sour outlook -- "The Population Bomb" author Paul R. Ehrlich is shown, circa 1970, predicting that "some time in the next 15 years the...
The movie, which grandly introduces authors and activists such as hippie astronaut Rusty Schweickart and the guy who wrote The Whole Earth Catalog, mingles campy footage of
Eisenhower-era wonderment with doom-laden futurism and images of hippies beating up an innocent car with sledgehammers at 1970's first Earth Day.
This bongs-and-bongos gang's preposterously sour outlook -- "The Population Bomb" author Paul R. Ehrlich is shown, circa 1970, predicting that "some time in the next 15 years the...
- 8/14/2009
- by By KYLE SMITH
- NYPost.com
Robert Stone’s documentary Earth Days is meant to be about the history of the environmental movement in the United States, but it kicks off with an awful lot of throat-clearing. Earth Days repeatedly returns to the same handful of environmentalists—people like former Secretary Of The Interior Stewart Udall and astronaut Rusty Schweickart—and for roughly the first 20 minutes of the movie, each waxes nostalgic about the simple, sustainable life of their youth, in contrast to the dangerous gluts of today. Stone underlines their reveries with stock footage and an overbearing Michael Giacchino score, which sounds lovely and ...
- 8/13/2009
- avclub.com
Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week. Plus, some old favorites (and not so favorites) coming out this week on Blu-Ray.
Movies:
For All Mankind: Criterion Collection ~ Jim Lovell, Kenneth Mattingly, Russell Schweickart, and Eugene Cernan (Blu-ray)
The Color of Magic ~ David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, and Jeremy Irons (DVD)
The Towering Inferno ~ Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Richard Chamberlain (Blu-ray)
The Haunting in Connecticut (Unrated Special Edition) ~ Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas and Virginia Madsen (DVD and Blu-ray)
The Edge of Love ~ Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, and Simon Armstrong (DVD and Blu-ray)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / Curse of the Golden Flower / House of Flying Daggers Trilogy ~ Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, and Chow Yun-Fat (Blu-ray)
Horsemen ~ Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Clifton Collins Jr. (DVD)
Van Wilder: Freshman Year – Unrated ~ Linden Ashby, Kurt Fuller,...
Movies:
For All Mankind: Criterion Collection ~ Jim Lovell, Kenneth Mattingly, Russell Schweickart, and Eugene Cernan (Blu-ray)
The Color of Magic ~ David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, and Jeremy Irons (DVD)
The Towering Inferno ~ Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Richard Chamberlain (Blu-ray)
The Haunting in Connecticut (Unrated Special Edition) ~ Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas and Virginia Madsen (DVD and Blu-ray)
The Edge of Love ~ Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, and Simon Armstrong (DVD and Blu-ray)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / Curse of the Golden Flower / House of Flying Daggers Trilogy ~ Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, and Chow Yun-Fat (Blu-ray)
Horsemen ~ Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Clifton Collins Jr. (DVD)
Van Wilder: Freshman Year – Unrated ~ Linden Ashby, Kurt Fuller,...
- 7/14/2009
- by Joe Gillis
- The Flickcast
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