Apollo 11 (2019) - May 14, 2019

[MifuneFan]

Apollo 11 Blu-ray

4K Release in the UK



https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Apoll...lu-ray/250188/

Universal will be releasing the new documentary Apollo 11 on May 14th. The critically acclaimed feature will be getting a limited theatrical run in IMAX and other formats next week, and a wider release the following week.

Apollo 11 (2019) | Official IMAX® Trailer | Exclusively in IMAX Theatres March 1 - YouTube

The Todd Douglas Miller documentary, which features never-before-seen 70mm footage and previously unheard audio from the historic first moon landing mission, will exclusively debut in IMAX theaters for one week only beginning March 1.

The feature-length film, which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, will then open in movie theaters everywhere on March 8.

"We're so excited to be working with NEON and IMAX on this very special event film," said Miller in a statement. "Ever since we saw the first frame of 65mm film footage roll off the film scanner we always envisioned 'Apollo 11' to be seen on the biggest screens possible."

"IMAX theaters are the cathedrals of cinema and we can't think of a more perfect way for audiences to enjoy the adventure of 'Apollo 11,'" he said.

"Apollo 11" was crafted from a trove of archival footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings. The film gives audiences a front row seat for NASA's most celebrated mission, which forever made Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control and the millions of spectators on the ground, moviegoers will vividly experience the days in July 1969 when humankind took its first giant leap onto another world.

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[profholt82]

Took my kids to Cape Canaveral last summer and they loved it. We even got to witness a SpaceX launch. They'll be excited to see this (so will I). I wish we had an Imax theater near us though.

[Snuck]

Is this confirmed for a May 14 home video release date?

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Snuck

Is this confirmed for a May 14 home video release date?

the release is IMAX this week, March 8 is when theaters get a chance to exhibit the movie, and then there will be a condensenced 40 min. version for science centers and IMAX screens beginning in the summer.

I really hope Universal can come to their senses and also release a 4K UHD edition of this - the 65mm shot scenes (in IMAX-laser) are amazing.

[noirjunkie]

I saw this in IMAX, and while I loved the film, the transfer left quite a bit to be desired. At times, what should have looked incredible due to the 65mm source material instead looked like a waxy, DNR-riddled mess. Of course, this could have to do with the dual-2K projector system the theater uses, but the trailer looked better than what I saw in the theater.

I really wish we had an IMAX theater that uses the laser projection system in my area.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

I saw this in IMAX, and while I loved the film, the transfer left quite a bit to be desired. At times, what should have looked incredible due to the 65mm source material instead looked like a waxy, DNR-riddled mess. Of course, this could have to do with the dual-2K projector system the theater uses, but the trailer looked better than what I saw in the theater.

I really wish we had an IMAX theater that uses the laser projection system in my area.

I didn't notice that at my IMAX viewing, which was a laser projection. It was pretty incredible.

[jabba359]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I didn't notice that at my IMAX viewing, which was a laser projection. It was pretty incredible.

My laser IMAX screening also looked great.

[noirjunkie]

It was probably a result of the shoddy projectors, so I'm glad to hear it's not more widespread.

[Jar Jar Stinks]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

I saw this in IMAX, and while I loved the film, the transfer left quite a bit to be desired. At times, what should have looked incredible due to the 65mm source material instead looked like a waxy, DNR-riddled mess. Of course, this could have to do with the dual-2K projector system the theater uses, but the trailer looked better than what I saw in the theater.

I really wish we had an IMAX theater that uses the laser projection system in my area.

“At one point, we were going to do it all in 4K,” Miller told me, explaining his initial plan to produce the film in a very high-resolution digital format. “Then we were in a meeting and Final Frame’s owner, Will Cox, said, ‘You know, if you wait six months, I think we can do it at 16K.’” That would require developing a new scanner, but Todd decided the delay would be worth it. “I don’t want to look back on this moment in 20 years and have said no,” he said. “That six months turned into eight. It was definitely worth it, but it was nail-biting the entire time.”

When all the scans were finally complete, the result was about a petabyte of information (1 million gigabytes).

I would think it should look decent when scanned at 16K.

[WJWS Channel 13:Amity]

Was able to get Buzz to come and introduce our first imax with laser show last Thursday Feb 28th.
Very cool experiencing it with the hero himself sitting4 feet away!

[JEDGAR1000]

Amazon preorder is up

Apollo 11 Blu-ray

[noirjunkie]

Originally Posted by JEDGAR1000

Amazon preorder is up

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NHRC3KH

A special feature is listed titled "Apollo 11: Discovering the 65MM." I'd love to see how they found the new footage, developed it, and edited it.

[rdodolak]

No 4K? Universal has been disappointing me lately will the exclusion of 4K releases.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by noirjunkie

A special feature is listed titled "Apollo 11: Discovering the 65MM." I'd love to see how they found the new footage, developed it, and edited it.

If you're not averse to reading it about then this here article is rather good:

Originally Posted by puddy77

Here's a very in-depth technical interview Filmmaker Magazine did with Todd Douglas Miller: https://filmmakermagazine.com/107173...-on-apollo-11/

[LordSummerIsle]

Where is the ****ing 4K? This would be the release of the year.

[Marcuslaw]

Why on God's green earth would there not be a 4k UHD Blu-ray?

[The Great Owl]

Here's my movie content review that I wrote after seeing it at the theater this weekend...

The 2019 documentary film, Apollo 11, which covers the eight-day mission of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins, backed by a multitude of NASA engineers and scientists, to reach the moon during the summer of 1969, is not so much a history lesson as it is an immersive psychedelic experience. Todd Douglas Miller, who directed, produced, and edited this endeavor, eschews traditional narration, interviews, or televised news clips in favor of archival material, including previously unseen crystal-clear 70mm footage from the National Archives and Records Administration and expansive audio records from Mission Control, that plays out over a 93-minute run time to relay the events in present tense.

The enormity of the effort behind this lunar landing is given a stunning visual metaphor during the opening moments, in the form of a massive crawler-transporter vehicle that is shown carrying the Saturn V rocket on a mobile platform from the assembly area to the launch site. We then see a camera view from the top of the scaffolding that shows tractor trailers resembling ants on the ground far below. The spectacularly fiery inferno of the Saturn V launch, and, later on, footage of flames as the Apollo reenters the atmosphere upon returning to Earth, accentuate the peril of this undertaking, where any one of thousands of minute details could have resulted in a disastrous end to the mission. Casual conversational details from Mission Control about the recorded heart rates of the astronauts after liftoff are instrumental in outlining the adrenaline-laced sense of danger in a way that no conventional special effects could hope to match.

Many of my favorite moments from Apollo 11, however, are courtesy of the recorded footage from the spectator area and from the assemblage of the public in a nearby Florida department store parking lot. We see everyday people in the clothing styles of the era, we see the inside of a concession stand where packaged food is sold to the families, and we sense a static electricity vibe of excitement in the air generated by a united populace that is following every movement of the astronauts who, at the time, were the real heroes to the world.

All the while, a pulsating Moog synthesizer score, created by solely from instruments that were available during the late 1960s, lends a fascinating intensity to the proceedings that is both eerie and inspiring at the right moments. The use of music in this documentary provides an aura of transcendence reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey, except that we are armed with the knowledge that the events transpiring on the screen are not fiction.

I was not yet born when this actual mission took place, so my only exposure to this amazing collaborative feat has been by way of interesting, yet stale newsreels and dramatic recreations, like Damien Chazelle's impressive Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, which was released last year. Thanks to having seen Apollo 11 on a big screen this afternoon, however, I finally have a semblance of a notion that I was there.

[GeoffOliver]

I would blame Neon for the lack of 4K UHD. None of their films have gotten one, even I Tonya, which is their biggest hit.

Anyway, this should still be worth getting, and would make a nice companion for Damien Chazelle’s First Man. I wish it got a wider theatrical release.

[Dubstar]

why complain here ? go tweet it on Neon and/or Universal Home Entertainment's twitter page - yeah, no 4K UHD disc is a butt raping.

[reason108]

Originally Posted by WJWS Channel 13:Amity

Was able to get Buzz to come and introduce our first imax with laser show last Thursday Feb 28th.
Very cool experiencing it with the hero himself sitting4 feet away!

That would have been a great experience. I just recently got to see this on the big screen. And, though I didn’t get to see it on an imax screen, the screen that I did see it on was originally built to show 70mm.