‘Space Cowboy’ Review: A Skydiving Cameraman Looks Back on His Rise and Many, Many Falls

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. Coming a decade after Marah Strauch’s first feature “Sunshine Superman,” about BASE jumping pioneer Carl Boenish (also an aerial cameraman), this new doc provides a thematically and stylistically overlapping companion piece. 

Co-directed with Bryce Leavitt, it’s not quite so exhilarating or moving as its predecessor, perhaps because

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