Press Reviews

TTKN News | Date 31 May 2009
Green MEP candidate to visit “Age of Stupid” windfarm

The Green Party’s lead candidate for the East of England in next month’s European elections, Dr Rupert Read, will be giving his backing to a long delayed windfarm when he visits the proposed site on Friday May 29th.

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Forres Gazette | Date 20 May 2009
Film links with green campaign

The film, which is Certificate 12A and starts at 7.30pm, will be followed by a webcast debate and has been dubbed as high profile as Al Gore's Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" climate change documentary.

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Bucks Free Press | Date 19 May 2009
Hollywood star Pete Postlethwaite's stark climate warning comes to Marlow

A ONE-OFF special screening of a film about climate change hailed by environmentalists in South Bucks will take place at a Marlow church. 'The Age of Stupid' featuring Hollywood star Pete Postlethwaite, is being shown at Marlow Methodist Church in Spittal Street on Friday evening.

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The New York Times - Magazine | Date 8 May 2009
Wanted: A New Home for My Country

One recent evening at the presidential palace in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, around 100 people showed up to watch a movie. Rows of overstuffed chairs in a gaudy combination of stripes and paisleys faced a projection screen hanging on the front wall of what seemed like a grand ballroom.

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Liverpool Echo | Date 8 May 2009
Pete Postlethwaite’s ‘stupid’ eco film

THAT Pete Postlethwaite certainly gets around. Fresh from backing the JMU students who won the Environment Agency’s film awards, the Warrington-born Hollywood legend has made his own green movie, The Age of Stupid.

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Variety | Date 5 May 2009
'A touch of sci-fi showmanship'

Adding a touch of sci-fi showmanship to its sounding the alarm on climate change, "The Age of Stupid" is a lively and accessible call to action before it's too late -- the tipping point, it argues, is just around the corner.

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C21Media.net | Date 30 April 2009
Smart money goes on Stupid

WHAT'S UP DOC?: After building a buzz on the festival circuit last year, environmental drama-documentary-animation hybrid The Age of Stupid looks set to break through in 2009. Franny Armstrong (below), the film's director, talks to Jesse Whittock.

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Center for American Progress | Date 29 April 2009
A Reel Progress Screening

"The Age Of Stupid" is the new cinema documentary from the Director of "McLibel" and the Producer of the Oscar-winning "One Day In September." This enormously ambitious dramadocumentary- animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in

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MSN.com | Date 21 April 2009
Climate Change: the world in 2055

    If we do not reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and continue to allow global temperatures to rise then what kind of world can the next generation expect to live in?

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The Guardian - Comment is free | Date 21 April 2009
A greener world from the ground up

Local co-operation, such as that between Yorkshire and Chongqing in China, can help to tackle climate change globally   John Prescott with a group of students at Chongqing University

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