As his contract comes to an end and sams health starts to deteriorate, painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident. Kevin spacey plays the voice of the robot gerty on the moon station. A space odyssey relies on the cold performances of the main characters, moon relies on. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including jules vernes novels from the earth to the moon and around the moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the moon in a cannonpropelled capsule, explore the moons surface, escape from an underground group of. Moon is about a lunar miner named sam bell who is the sole worker on a lunar base. This film stars sam rockwell, a fine actor, with an affect thirtythree degrees off.
Sitting on the moon is a 1936 american musical film directed by ralph staub and released by republic pictures. Boosted by sam rockwells intense performance, moon is a compelling work of sciencefiction, and a. New moon 112 movie clip paper cut 2009 hd by movieclips. Moon follows sam bell, an astronaut assigned by lunar industries to a threeyear mission mining helium 3 on the moon, the earths new energy source. I simultaneously felt pity, anger, disdain and disgust with his character. Based on william fields short story temperamental lady. However, moon isnt another scifi ripoff, its a film packed with homage references yet maintains originality delivering a fresh meal for hungry scifi geeks. All 14 songs from the moon 2009 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Moon s cast has sam rockwell as the lonesome astronaut on the moon, hes brilliant.
A pair of hit songwriters fall in love with an exfilm star and her friend, but. Parts of the film veer dangerously close to identical thematic elements in steven soderberghs recent adaptation of solaris, without being as emotionally potent. With roger pryor, grace bradley, william newell, pert kelton. Besides portraying the massive technological achievement of that event, the film places it in some historical context and tries to capture the mood and the feel of the people on earth when man first walked on another world. Enigma sitting on the moon piotr sounder lewandowicz. A pair of hit songwriters fall in love with an ex film star and her friend, but a blackmailer arrives to disrupt the romances. Reed also appeared in the films sequels the twilight saga. He meets what appears to be a younger version of himself. More time, effort, and money were poured into the second film, new moon, and nowhere is this clearer than the films soundtrack. There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including imagine that, the taking of pelham 123 and food, inc. Time lapse with camtasia, after effects, photoshop. Astronaut sam bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his threeyear stint on the moon, where he, working alongside his computer, gerty, sends back to earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planets power problems. In charge of the whole project on the moon is one man. At the root of this film is a pretty moving and often amusing story of one man struggling with a major, major identity crisis, trapped in an glaringlywhite space station 86 gazillion miles from earth, alone, lonely, lost, and increasingly alarmed.
The symptoms are reminiscent of radiation sickness. Synopsis at their best, the republic musicals of the 1930s could hold their own against anything turned out by mgm or warner bros. The lunar landscape looks incredible and rockwell gives an amazing performance, sustaining the entire film as almost the only actor to appear on screen. Republics sitting on the moon is an excellent showcase for secondechelon stars roger pryor and grace bradley, here cast as songwriter danny west and fading movie star polly blair. New moon 212 movie clip happy birthday 2009 hd by movieclips. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. Sitting on the moon is available for free download at the internet archive this article about a musical film is a stub. Moonwalk one is a 1971 featurelength documentary film about the flight of apollo 11, which landed the first humans on the moon.
In the film moon 2009, we see sam bell becoming ill towards the end. The most inexplicably bizarre film of the year, its jawdropping for all the wrong reasons. Sam rockwell, kaya scodelario, matt berry, benedict wong, malcolm stewart, dominique mcelligott, robin chalk, kevin spacey 2009, 97 minutes, directed by. Second off after watching this frankly mortifying film adaptation of andrew lloyd webbers cats, im not altogether sure i am a movie person anymore either. Moon is a song by rusted root, off of their 1998 selftitled debut.
Hope such sort of movies are made to feed the hungry mind which takes us to a different. By comparison to those awful films, moon deserves an oscar. Duncan jones taking inspiration from scifi giants such as 2001. Read the full synopsis of sitting on the moon, 1936, directed by ralph staub, with roger pryor, grace bradley, william newell, at turner classic movies. Moon is set in the near future, earths primary source of power is helium3, a substance that is mined on the moon. While mining he experiences a visual hallucination of a young teenaged girl, which startles him and.
The cast isnt bad, just no one is particularly great. With sam rockwell, kevin spacey, dominique mcelligott, rosie shaw. Hoping to jumpstart pollys career, danny breaks up his partnership with lyricist. New moon becomes fandangos topselling prerelease title evan jacobs nov 16, 2009 the film is currently wolfing down 86% of weekly ticket sales on fandango.
After the middle of the film, moon doesnt try to hide its secret, but at that point it doesnt matter. It has been three years since my sitting moon and these delicious recipes, and i look back with incredible fondness and gratitude. Moon is a critically acclaimed 2009 british science fiction film about a man who experiences a personal crisis. After twilight became a worldwide hit, the film series based on stephenie meyers series of vampire romance books got a major upgrade. Hoping to jumpstart pollys career, danny breaks up his partnership with lyricist mike william newell, who finds some comfort in the arms of pollys wisecracking pal mattie. Sitting on the moon 1936 a successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom. Like you, i thought rockwells performance was one of the great acting displays of the year, and its a real shame this often underrated actor didnt receive more recognition for it. Sitting on the moon is an excellent showcase for secondechelon stars roger pryor and grace bradley, here cast as songwriter danny west and fading movie star polly blair. There is more than one artist with the name enigma. He suffers painful headaches and hallucinations, and almost has a fatal accident. Suddenly, sams health takes a drastic turn for the worse. Studios in ibiza, spain in the early 1990s is both the composer and the producer of the project. In addition, look for pert kelton as pollys friend. Moon is a 2009 science fiction film directed by duncan jones and written by nathan parker from a story by jones.
Moon 2009 while 2001 gives us spectacle, duncan joness scifi drama provides something much more. My mental health was incredible after my sons birth even though he was a more difficult baby, and i credit a lot of my stability and joy to the nutritious recipes, permission to rest, and nonjudgemental caring. The title refers to a song danny wrote for polly and the acting and writing are very nice. Kultur wissen gesellschaft film dokumentation kabarett sendungen az 3sat einstellungen. Hoping to jumpstart pollys career, danny breaks up his partnership with lyricist mike william newell, who finds some comfort in the arms of pollys wisecracking pal mattie pert kelton. Moon is both a gripping scidrama and a film driven by real, complex ideas, and its a remarkable achievement from a firsttime director. Sam bell sam rockwell, frostnixon, charlies angels is. The twilight saga new moon 2009 ita video dailymotion. It is directed by firsttime filmmaker duncan jones, once known as zowie bowie, the son of pop legend david. Desperate to return to his family on earth and riddled with loneliness sam is involved in an accident, and it is at this point that events start to become strange.
Man on the moon is a song by rem, off of their 1992 album, automatic for the people. The film is set on the far side of the moon, where sam bell is coming to the end of a 3 year term of work for an energy company. She collaborated again with catherine hardwicke in 2008 when she appeared as rosalie in twilight 2008. Since he was a clone, did he inherently start off with a shortened lifespan due to the cloning process. Sam bell sam rockwell, frostnixon, charlies angels is nearing the completion of his 3yearlong contract with lunar industries, mining earths primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon. And sam rockwell just kicks this movies ass, people. It is sams job to mine a valuable lunar element called helium3, which he seals in capsules and ships back to earth. Listen to it on the bbc website, or download it with your preferred podcast app. Moon is set in a futureworld that has solved its energy crisis by mining fuel from. Michael cretu enigma sitting on the moon piotr sounder lewandowicz remix video.
Moons oldschool effects should be the model for scifi. One of the things about duncan joness science fiction film moon that most delighted critics and audiences alike was the use of good, oldfashioned. Lyrics include, if you believed they put a man on the moon man on the moon if you believe theres nothing up his sleeve then nothing is cool. The film follows sam bell sam rockwell, a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a threeyear solitary stint mining helium3 on the far side of the moon. Moon is an incredibly impressive film that assumes a degree of intelligence from its audience even if it is possibly a little too quick in revealing the explanation for what is going on. Moon is a 2009 sciencefiction film directed by duncan jones, who has directed films like source code and warcraft. In this film, he plays across the gamut of human emotions in a brilliant symphony of shifts some discordant, but all fitting within the overall orchestration. Moon 2009 soundtrack complete list of songs whatsong. This film can only be admired by those who truly calls themselves as movie aficionado. Astronaut sam bells sam rockwell threeyear shift at a lunar mine is finally coming to an end, and hes looking forward to his reunion with his wife dominique mcelligott and young daughter.
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