Press Reviews

Variety | Date 23 June 2009
'Stupid' to launch worldwide in fall

Eco-documentary plans green U.S. premiere AMSTERDAM -- British eco-documentary "The Age of Stupid" goes global in September, launching in up to 40 territories worldwide.

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The Hollywood Reporter | Date 22 June 2009
Europe d-cinema rollout hung up on funding

AMSTERDAM -- Dithering over funding and other details has European theater operators as frustrated as U.S. exhibitors with the slow rollout of digital cinema.

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The Times | Date 2 June 2009
It’s our health, stupid...

The need for medical voices in the climate change debate gathers pace following the Lancet/UCL Commission, Professor Sir Muir Gray’s call-to-arms in The Times, and letters to the paper from medical leaders.

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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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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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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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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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