[scott_s]

I saw it in a theater. It was astounding. I bought the soundtrack. I find that when explaining what it is to other people, I have to take care to emphasize it is not the normal documentary format of: historical footage with narration, interview with participant, cut to more footage, cut back to different interview. It's a unique film because they were able to make a documentary with a "normal" film narrative entirely using real footage and no narration. I also think there's not many historical events one could do this with; most events don't have so much footage that you actually can construct a coherent narrative. (Consider: they have high quality footage of the crew getting to the rocket, going from different buildings to vans to suit prep.) And the 65mm footage is some of the highest quality film we have of 1969. Even the crowd footage is fascinating for that reason. It will certainly be nominated for a documentary Oscar.