[FPSPACE] Kubrick, Nixon, and the Man on the Moon

[Raoul Lannoy]

I saw the movie and enjoyed to the fullest!!!
All the spacenuts I know who saw it, enjoyed it too!
We knew, by reading in advance what it was about, that it would ridicule the
Moonhoaxers.
At one point, there's a picture of Kubrick on the Moon, but it's actually
Duke's family's picture.
At the end of the show, they interview some of the hoaxers (who all spoke
french rather than english or hebrew, this time) making fun of what just
happened.
One thing I really liked is Dave Scott , Faruk El Baz, Jeffrey Hoffman all
praising Kubrick's 2001!
The movie was shot in 2001, shortly before september 11 and just before
Vernon Walters died.

Raoul
> >
> >Prepare yourselves! Last night the French/German arte satellite
> >channel broadcast a program with the above title - a parody of
> >documentaries that reveals the explosive story of how Richard Nixon
> >hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the Apollo moon landings. All of the
> >usual arguments and studies of the photos are there, but the
> >'explosive' part are seeming face-to-face interviews with Aldrin,
> >Kubrick's son and widow, Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Donald
> >Rumsfeld, etc. where the details of the operation and subsequent
> >cover-up (including the assasination at Nixon's orders of those who
> >knew) are described.
> >
> >There were clear remarks after the broadcast that the film is a 'free
> >mixture of documentary, theory, and fiction' and that the director
> >intended an 'effect like that of Orson Welles War of the Worlds
> >broadcast'. The desired impact was achieved -- several people I've
> >spoken to this morning were dumbfounded by the revelations and took
> >the film as genuine. In fact the director took interviews out of
> >context from the documentary 'All the President's Men', other sources,
> >interviews with participants on false pretenses, staged interviews
> >with actors ('ex-KGB agents', 'renegade NASA scientists', 'survivors
> >in hiding'), etc. It is a remarkable example of people thinking they
> >are hearing someone saying something but actually they are speaking
> >only generalities after the narrator sets the viewer up...
> >
> >For those in Europe, the program will be rebroadcast on arte digital
> >satellite at 15:15 on 23 October. If this is released in the US,
> >expect major impact and a major headache to argue against such
> >'convincing evidence'...
> >