Score: Excellent Label: La-La Land Records Released: February 24, 2014 Tracks / Album Length: CD1: 25 tracks / (52:20) + CD2: 28 tracks / (71:23) Special Notes: Colour booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond / Limited to 2000 copies. Review: Jerry Goldsmith scored The Sand Pebbles, Seconds, Stagecoach, The Trouble with Angels, Our […]
Alongside Gravity, I’ve added related reviews of the International Space Station Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomy-themed docs, including the classic NFB short Universe;and Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter’s score for It! The Terror from Beyond Space. PLUS: a guide to creatively mounting your Gravity movie poster. Yes, really.
Alfonso Cuarón’s much-hyped, Oscar-winning 3D space drama / sort-of sci-fi translates well to home video, even in a flat 2D version, but it’s a film more impressive for being an immersive audio-visual experience than storytelling, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing…
Billed as “an interplanetary music video experience,” director Don Barrett’s saga of the Voyager I and II space probes up to their known 1989 travel coordinates is a an intriguing concept that’s aged severely over the past 20 years, largely due to a seriously mixed bag of animation that varies from facile to cutting edge…
This doc may well have been forgotten had it not been for its connection to Stanley Kubrick’s own cinematic milestone, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Kubrick was undoubtedly captivated by the realistic movements around planets and moons, gazes from the surface of these mysterious orbs, and the passing stars, gaseous images and cloudy bodies, because 2001’s space imagery was built upon the views and movements within this NFB classic…
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