Dec 13th
In the Shadow of the Moon** (U)
Hollywood Film Theatre, Ipswich

GB/US 2007. Film Four/Passion Pictures. 100m.

Documentary interviews with the dozen or so US astronauts who stepped onto the Moon between 1968 and 1972.
Another semi-celebratory flagwaver about the Apollo Space program, relying much on the individual accounts of the people themselves (the reclusive Neil Armstrong excepted) as well as a trove of sometimes irrelevant archive material. A little more of the technical details of the missions would have helped, as the global impact is already pretty well known (and covered in other films), but the power of the Moon landings themselves, still compel.

Producer: Duncan Copp.
Director: David Sington.
Starring: Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Charlie Duke, Jim Lovell, Edgar Mitchell, Dave Scott, Jack Schmitt, John Young.
Music: Philip Sheppard.
Editing: David Fairhead.