Press Reviews

The Guardian | Date 16 March 2009
Postlethwaite may return OBE over Kingsnorth

The actor Pete Postlethwaite has threatened to hand back his OBE if the government gives the go-ahead to the controversial Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent.

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Channel 4 News | Date 15 March 2009
The green premiere

At the premiere for The Age of Stupid, Pete Postlethwaite and his co-stars arrived in cars powered by cooking oil and stepped on to a green carpet. It claims to the the world's greenest premiere, and the first to be solar powered.

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News of the World | Date 15 March 2009
A Deeply Inconvenient Kick Up The Backside

Verdict: You’d be stupid to miss it

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Reuters | Date 13 March 2009
Green carpet out for "The Age of Stupid"

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The stars will arrive by solar car, bike, or rickshaw. The carpet on which they pose for paparazzi will be green, not red. And this world premiere will be screened in a far-from-exclusive solar-powered cinema tent.

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CBS News | Date 12 March 2009
"The Age of Stupid" Cometh

It's not unusual to hear voices from the future during a night at the movies. Sigourney Weaver famously talked us through her battle with aliens, and Will Smith told robots who was boss.

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The Independent | Date 12 March 2009
A Crowd with a silver lining

A new climate change film has found a novel way of raising cash It was the moment that proved film maker Franny Armstrong's hard work had paid off. A contact of hers, a young professional had sent an email to her friends. Its title was simply: "Why I am kissing goodbye to my cash."

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Camden New Journal Review | Date 12 March 2009
Age concern of film-maker Armstrong

Camden Town-based Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid aims to inspire audiences to fight for the environment and push our politicians into leading the way later this year, writes Dan Carrier

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Der Spiegel | Date 9 March 2009
Franny Armstrong

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Huffington Post | Date 6 March 2009
How a Green Premiere Aims to Kickstart The Countdown to Copenhagen

Documentary film maker Franny Armstrong (along with the UN and some climate scientists) has a very keen sense that time is running out for us to turn the big climate ship around and head it in a low-carbon direction.

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Bucks Free Press | Date 5 March 2009
Its in the Cinema Stupid

     

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