At The Movies for Wednesday 4 September 2019
AT THE MOVIES #774 IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY…
Simon Morris looks at three films that look back to 1969 – the year of the Moon landing, the Vietnam War, and the publication of that definitive gangster novel, The Godfather.
Apollo 11 is a documentary that covers the first man on the moon – from count-down to giant leap to safe landing.
Danger Close is a dramatized account of a famous Anzac battle durin g the Vietnam, war. Stars Travis Fimmel (Vikings).
And The Kitchen imagines a classic New York gangster movie, from the point of view of the wives. Stars Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss and Tiffany Haddish.