This article is from the source 'guardian' and was first published or seen on . It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/17/lebanese-rocket-society-review
The article has changed 4 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 1 | Version 2 |
|---|---|
| The Lebanese Rocket Society – review | The Lebanese Rocket Society – review |
| (2 months later) | |
| Lebanon's modest contribution to the 60s space race – the society formed at Beirut's Haigazian University by Professor Manoug Manougian – is here reclaimed as a source of optimism: it encouraged students from across the Middle East to fire rockets skywards, rather than at each other. | Lebanon's modest contribution to the 60s space race – the society formed at Beirut's Haigazian University by Professor Manoug Manougian – is here reclaimed as a source of optimism: it encouraged students from across the Middle East to fire rockets skywards, rather than at each other. |
| See if this film is playing near you | |
| Yet this dour-seeming documentary only succeeds in framing the society's efforts as so much elaborate tinkering – a science-fair project that briefly caught eyes before being consigned to history's attic. The flat-footed investigative approach, shuffling between archives, hardly helps. Only with a belated attempt to reconstruct the rockets does the film poke its head beyond the shed door. | Yet this dour-seeming documentary only succeeds in framing the society's efforts as so much elaborate tinkering – a science-fair project that briefly caught eyes before being consigned to history's attic. The flat-footed investigative approach, shuffling between archives, hardly helps. Only with a belated attempt to reconstruct the rockets does the film poke its head beyond the shed door. |
| Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning. | Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning. |