A Sidewalk Astronomer

Name: A Sidewalk Astronomer
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 6, 2005
Duration: 79 min
Rating: 60

2005

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Jacobs Entertainment Inc. | Release Date: July 6, 2005

Summary: A fascinating and illuminating journey through the cosmos featuring the cantankerous and brilliant astronomer John Dobson.

Director: Jeffrey Jacobs

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 79 min

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V.A. Musetto

As we learn, delightfully so, in Jeffrey Fox Jacobs' documentary A Sidewalk Astronomer, the Peking-born Dobson promotes the building and use of small, inexpensive telescopes to study the wonders of the sky. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

An inspiring film about an inspired teacher. It should leave all viewers with an ounce of curiosity eager to hit the streets with Dobsonian telescopes of their own. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Entertaining, painlessly educational documentary. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

An amateur in the best sense of the word, Dobson is an engaging ambassador for a life of the mind lived firmly in the real world. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jacobs focuses almost exclusively on Dobson's theories and mission, which he illustrates by contrasting jaw-dropping images of the sun's surface with people ignoring Dobson's entreaties to "Come look at the sun." Read full review

Benjamin Strong

An unenlightening recitation of lay science and salad bar spirituality that could only resonate with those audiences who last year actually flocked to a movie called "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

An entirely unconventional, hypnotic, meandering film. Read full review

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