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‘Space Cowboy’ Review: A Skydiving Cameraman Looks Back on His Rise and Many, Many Falls
This documentary, on the festival circuit, follows the life of Joe Jennings, a skydiving cameraman for blockbusters like 'XXX,' now mounting a superlative car stunt.
If you were to find entire dinette sets, automobiles and living rooms — with people sitting in them — tumbling Earthward from the clouds, you might think “Okay, so End Times really are a thing.” But it could also be the handiwork of “ Space Cowboy ” subject Joe Jennings, a “freefall cinematographer” who’s made a specialty of devising and filming such surreal stunts. Apart from the chronologically-told biographical narrative, “Space Cowboy’s” principal structuring thread is Jenning’s team’s quest to perfect “the Holy Grail of flying objects”: Fine-tuning a car found in a junkyard so that it can be dropped from a plane and filmed as it plummets without flipping, spinning or tilting. While their main figures are of different generations, “Cowboy” mostly sticks with “Sunshine Superman’s” winning soundtrack strategy, heavy on pop rock of the Me Decade via sweet-spot cuts from Three Dog Night, ELO and Big Star — though there’s also room for Fugazi and Eels.
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