Let me get this straight:Months before the 50th anniversary, a huge cache of unknown, cinema quality, film footage was discovered.By people making a movie.How utterly improbable.This does sound like it's going to be terrific.
Quote from: Comga on 01/27/2019 07:23 amLet me get this straight:Months before the 50th anniversary, a huge cache of unknown, cinema quality, film footage was discovered.By people making a movie.How utterly improbable.This does sound like it's going to be terrific.More than cinema quality. 65mm film. Should look stunning on IMAX.
But what was staid NASA doing, shooting in Todd-AO in 1969, by which point the format was in decline? Part of the explanation lies in a film called Moonwalk One, directed by a man named Theo Kamecke. A couple of years before the Apollo 11 mission, NASA had put together a deal with MGM Studios and the filmmaker Francis Thompson, a pioneer in producing proto-Imax giant-screen documentaries, to make a picture that would tell the story of the entire Apollo program. But on short notice, MGM backed out.
As exhilarating as Rooney’s news was for Miller, it presented a technological challenge. NARA didn’t have 60s-era Todd-AO projectors to screen these materials, let alone the equipment to transfer them to digital. But Miller’s project presented Rooney and NARA with a golden opportunity: for a private entity to underwrite the digitization and preservation of materials that, because they are part of the National Archives, belong to the public. An arrangement was worked out to do just that. The postproduction shop with which Miller works in New York, Final Frame, rigged up custom hardware and software just for the Apollo 11 project in order to scan the Todd-AO footage to digital. As the old reels scanned through Final Frame’s machinery and their contents played out on a screen, Miller and Rooney couldn’t believe their good fortune. “Our jaws were on the floor,”
Neon is planning a theatrical run for "Apollo 11" later this spring (a date for the release is expected soon), with a giant screen release for museums and science centers in May, followed by CNN airing a version of the documentary closer to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission this summer.
Official full trailer out just now:HOLY sh!t.
HOLY sh!t.
This will get me out to a theater which is a rarity.
I've been looking forward to this for some time now, more than 'First Man'.
Review in the Hollywood Reporter:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/apollo-11-review-1178398Sounds to me like just the documentary Apollo 11 deserves after the disappointment of 'First Man'.
In that, it succeeded.
Quote from: Oersted on 01/28/2019 03:57 pmReview in the Hollywood Reporter:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/apollo-11-review-1178398Sounds to me like just the documentary Apollo 11 deserves after the disappointment of 'First Man'.Sigh... First Man was not intended to be a docu-Apollo 11. Not intended to be a spaceflight film. It was a bio pic of Neil's life for a generation who knew next to nothing about his life and times. In that, it succeeded.
As its title indicates, Apollo 11, which will have its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January as a 90-minute feature (a shorter version, around 40 minutes, will reach museums later next year), is about...
