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Plenty of science-fiction films deal with time travel, but how often do you see a real live time warp at the movies?" In the Shadow of the Moon" is just such a time warp, artfully blending unvarnished footage from America's moonshots with present-day tales from the astronauts who made those trips — and who have lived long enough to absorb deep lessons from the experience. We've heard some of the tales before, in dramatic re-creations as well as vintage documentaries. But as you watch those young men of the 1960s — and as you see those same men in 2007, now with white hair and tanned, lined faces — you get a sense that "In the Shadow of the Moon" could be one of the last great testaments from the greatest generation of spaceflight. "These guys are theultimate realists.
They can do the math," the film's director, David Sington, told msnbc.com. "A couple of them more or less said, 'Well, that's it. I've done my big interview.' I don't think any one film can be considered the definitive record of Apollo — but if you take what's behind the film, which is 60 hours of interviews that we did with these people, that, I think, is an important resource.""In the Shadow of the Moon" goes into its first limited release on Friday and will gradually roll out to more theaters in coming weeks, but it's already benefiting from positive buzz: It won an award at the Sundance Film Festival, received a promotional boost from Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard (who is "presenting" the film) and is being mentioned as an early Oscar contender in its own right."From our perspective, it'salready been fantastically successful," Sington said.He said the film was the brainchild of Apollo 15 commander Dave Scott, who walked on the moon himself in 1971 and is among the 10 astronauts interviewed for the film. "Dave's idea was to get everybody together to talk about Apollo to preserve the legacy," Sington said.Every living moonwalker agreed to on-camera interviews, save one: Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the lunar surface. The publicity-shy Armstrong reportedly declined the invitation because he didn't want to dwell on his personal experiences yet again — an explanation that Sington accepted diplomatically.
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