BRIAN ENO ON HIS FOR ALL MANKIND SOUNDTRACK: During the 1980s, former Houston Chronicle journalist Al Reinert somehow teamed up with U2/Talking Heads and ambient music producer Brian Eno to produce the impressionistic documentary For All Mankind. While it blended commentary from, and footage of, many of the astronauts of the Apollo missions, Reinert’s film was released in 1989, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. Unfortunately, Eno’s latest thoughts in the video below eventually devolve into enviro-doomsday mumbling, but along the way, it’s a fascinating look at how the country music the astronauts listened to on the way to the moon influenced the sound of his haunting soundtrack to Reinert’s documentary:

Here’s Siskel and Ebert discussing the documentary itself back in 1989, which, if you’ve never seen it, is well worth a look, particularly in HD streaming or the Criterion Collection’s Blu-Ray formats: