Has anyone seen the film MOON? Trying to track it down in my area. The plot sounds interesting about a lone worker on the moon. It's made by David Bowie's son, who changed his name from Zowie Bowie to Duncan Jones. Wonder if Moonunit Zappa has changed his name? I thought Moonunit was the coolest name ever when I came acroos it in the 70's!
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I believe "he" now goes by the name Moon Zappa, and treats Unit as a middle name. "He" did a pretty good job of sounding like a female when recording lead vocals to the song "Valley Girl"...making it somewhat less of a surprise when "he" married a fellow and gave birth to a daughter a few years ago. (Have I run this into the ground yet?)
ReplyDeleteMoon was on very limited short-run release in the States, so hardly anyone saw it here though many wanted to. It looks set to do well in DVD form...
Don't know why I thought Moonunit was a lad's name. Moon's better and sounds a bit more girlie! I think Duncan Jones' film has run its course here now as 'GI Joe Rise of the Cobra' sweeps everything away in its path! I imagine these Joe toys have film star likenesses for the first time?
ReplyDeleteHi again Paul,
ReplyDeleteand thank you for the hint on the Blog earlier this month: Yesterday I was able to catch a screening of Moon (2009) and want to put out a good word to all "lunatics" out there. A very sombre story which thematically draws from films like Blade Runner and Solaris, while the production design is close to a gritty version of Space: 1999. Some magnificent lunar vistas with miniature lunar buggies and majestic harvesters of Helium-3 hovering the Moon surface, a sharp technological contrast to the human condition in the film. The story raises many more questions than it answers, but with a little "suspension of disbelief" it holds together remarkably well. There is also a nostalgic feel of the seventies' philosophical scifi akin to Silent Running and the like, that fascinating twilight zone before everything went Jedi. A very thought-provoking, well-composed film with a tour-de-force performance by Sam Rockwell. An original blend of many familiar (and best) scifi ingredients, this is the film worth revisiting in every sense.
Cheers Arto