For All Mankind (The Criterion Collection)
by Al Reinert
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Actor: Eugene Cernan, Jim Lovell, Kenneth Mattingly, Michael Collins, Russell SchweickartDirector: Al Reinert
Brand: Image Entertainment
Producer: Al Reinert
Editor: Susan Korda
Producer: Ben Young Mason
Producer: Betsy Broyles Breier
Producer: David W. Leitner
Producer: Fred Miller
Producer: Jonathan Turell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion
Description of For All Mankind (The Criterion Collection)
In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy?s challenge of: landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert?s documentary, For All Mankind, is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the Moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Forty years later, it remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema yet made about this earth-shaking eventDIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
? New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director Al Reinert
? Audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the Moon
? An Accidental Gift: The Making of: For All Mankind, a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists Don Pickard, Mike Gentry, Morris Williams, and Chuck Welch
? On Camera, a collection of excerpted, on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts
? New video program about Bean?s artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings
? NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
? Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists
? PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert
A Special Message from Jonathon Turell, Criterion CEO
I was nine when the Apollo 11 Eagle landed on the moon. I remember vividly watching it on a small black-and-white TV at sleepaway camp that summer of 1969. I?ve been hooked on the space program ever since. Just about twenty years ago, a friend told me he had seen a rough cut of a new space movie and I should see it. I got a tape and watched For All Mankind for the first time. It was unlike anything I had seen before, and I knew that I wanted to be a part of it. I met Al Reinert and we became friends. Janus Films helped to finish the film, and I became an associate producer as we completed the movie. For All Mankind was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary?losing out to Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. It played festivals around the world. There was a special screening for NASA and the astronauts in Galveston, Texas, and the film showed at the Air and Space Museum at the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the moon landing.
We started working on the laserdisc release of For All Mankind before the film was complete, and I traveled to Houston to meet Al and interview Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean for inclusion on the disc. Bean?s comments were so good that Al recut the film to include a wonderful story about piloting the lunar module in orbit around moon. Meeting one of the astronauts who walked on the moon is still one of the greatest thrills of my life. Last year, when we began working on our Blu-ray release of For All Mankind, we got in touch with Bean again and asked him to participate. He happily agreed to update the feature on his paintings and also to sit down and talk with us about a subject I had become very interested in?science versus art. I wanted to explore the question of whether the astronauts (or the people at NASA) realized they were shooting some of the most artistic images ever recorded (and now some of the most famous) or if it was really all about moon rocks and beating the Russians. This second meeting with Bean didn?t disappoint; he says some wonderful things that are included on the disc. When we finished taping our interview session, he gave me a ride to lunch. The famous Apollo 12 Corvette is gone, replaced by a truck to carry his paintings, but that ten-minute ride will stay with me forever. He talked about walking on the moon; I talked about what movies I like. It didn?t seem quite parallel?for him it was an interesting conversation, for me, it was an audience with a hero.
Over the years, I think I?ve seen every film and TV miniseries about the Apollo program (at least twice), but for me For All Mankind still stands apart. It is unique in its poetic approach and ability to capture the pure emotion of the greatest journey of our time.
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