AFF, Ron Howard, and Special Guests Screen Apollo 13

Courtesy Planning Ahead, Austin  Fri, 10/09/2009 - 8:27am


The Austin Film Festival has announced a special retrospective screening of the 1995 blockbuster film, Apollo 13 .

Nominated for nine Oscars (two of which it won), the 1995 film depicts the dramatic “successful failure” of Apollo 13, a ‘routine’ moon exploration mission that quickly turned into a worst-case-scenario and subsequently epic fight for survival.

The film is a masterful and shockingly true representation of what occurred during that fateful mission, uniquely combining emotionally moving, pulse-quickening, silver screen storytelling...



 

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