Press Reviews

The Press | Date 20 April 2009
Green issues on big screen

  ENVIRONMENTALISTS and film-lovers will join forces at York’s City Screen cinema next weekend. Climate change film The Age Of Stupid is being shown at the Coney Street picture house.

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Tenby Observer | Date 17 April 2009
Powerful new film to be shown at Narberth

The acclaimed new climate change film, The Age of Stupid, will be shown at Narberth’s Queen’s Hall on Sunday evening at 7.30 pm.  The Age of Stupid stars Oscar-nominated Peter Postlethwaite as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055 looking back and asking, ‘Why didn’t we stop climate ch

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Devon24 | Date 16 April 2009
Daft not to see these films

THE response of two Biosphere Reserves in North Devon and Kenya to an increase in sea levels is the subject of a short film playing at The Plough Arts Centre in Torrington this week.

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Sydney Morning Herald | Date 14 April 2009
Fiddling at the edges as climate goes into tailspin

OPINION A new futuristic eco-flick, The Age Of Stupid, opens with the devastation of 2055. Pete Postlethwaite plays a lone man wading through video footage from 2007-08 and asking why we didn't stop climate change when we still had the chance.

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Green Prophet | Date 12 April 2009
Exploring Human Apathy In The Film ‘The Age Of Stupid’

‘The Age of Stupid’ is an ambitious new Independent British green documentary.

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The Sunday Herald | Date 22 March 2009
Trump scoops Stupid Award for golf course plan

AND THE winners of the inaugural Scottish Stupid Awards 2009 for trashing the planet are ...

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The Observer | Date 22 March 2009
'Like a hell-fire sermon'

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a quietly persuasive documentary...

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The Sunday Times - Culture | Date 22 March 2009
'Doesn't bother with half measures'

The conceit in this global-warming documentary is that the presenter (played by Pete Postlethwaite) is an archivist in the year 2055.

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The Sunday Times - Style | Date 22 March 2009
I am what I am: Franny Armstrong

Franny Armstrong, 35, is a documentary director. Her feature film The Age of Stupid was released on Friday (ageofstupid.net). She lives alone with her two cats in London- My dad was a BBC documentary maker, always off to Africa; my mum was taking in homeless people.

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The Sun | Date 20 March 2009
The Age of Stupid is smart

  THOSE of you who have been reading this column long enough won’t be surprised to read that “stupid” can refer to yours truly. The reason for that is no matter how many environmental movies The Sneak watches his carbon footprint doesn’t get any smaller.

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