A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to … There were no wholesalers or resellers. He mentions that most of the budget, £857,000, was gathered "through direct contributions from their fans. "[2], William Nicholson, writer of Shadowlands (1985) and Gladiator (2000), said: "I hate this film. After several months of fierce fighting, the Red Army finally knocks the enemy out of the village of Ovsyannikovo, which costs huge losses - only a third of the personnel remain from the ... See full summary ». 'The Age Of Stupid is the documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Live Forever, In the Shadow of the Moon). [17], Writing for The Guardian, environmental activist George Monbiot, who appears in the film, said its "message, never stated but constantly emerging, is that we all have our self-justifying myths. The Age of Stupid is now available to view in 20 languages on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Vimeo On Demand, Google Play and direct from this site. Time Out London's film editor, Dave Calhoun, said, "Armstrong's prognosis is apocalyptic, but her journalism is solid, instructive and pleasingly thoughtful," and described the film as "entertaining and provocative". Andrew Schenker. Starring: Pete Postlethwaite. In September 2009 at the global premiere of the film The Age of Stupid, Nasheed was presented with a "Not Stupid" Award for his efforts to tackle climate change and for the Maldives' announcement to become the first carbon-neutral country in the world. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment. THE AGE OF STUPID is the new documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One … [15] The film was then released in all 13 cinemas in New Zealand and many of the 32 in Australia. He observes a group in Bedfordshire stopping a potential wind farm from getting through planning, an entrepreneur in India starting a low cost airline, a woman surviving in Nigeria torn by Shell's oil extraction, children exiled from Iraq and a man retired from the oil industry living in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. Check out the full list of winners. The executive producer is John Battsek. Franny Armstrong hosted the run of eight 40-60-minute shows which were broadcast live on the web daily from Friday 11 December until the final day of the conference, Saturday 19 December. Report abuse. $35.80 for a 2-page paper. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. [20] The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in a devastated world of 2055, watching archival film and asking "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?". But it deserves a hearing. The Age of Stupid is a 2009 British documentary film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel. The Age of Stupid: A world where dialogue is dead; a world where we have stopped engaging with those with whom we don’t agree; a world where we no longer have to listen or expose ourselves to other ideas that may challenge our confirmation bias. The year is 2055. Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero movies coming in 2021 and beyond. The Age of Stupid is a clever film that leaves to the viewer the ability to judge what is good and what is not, served in a fun and entertaining way which will not get you tired until you are watching it. One man, Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite, remains to archive humanity and review all the warnings projected by current, mainstream science. [citation needed], Learn how and when to remove this template message, Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, "The Age of Stupid Is the Future of Film", "Age of Stupid premiere: the green carpet treatment", "The Age of Stupid: Film Charts the Future of Climate Change", "Postlethwaite may return OBE over Kingsnorth", "Ed Miliband promises new era of clean coal - but who will pay? [9] The film's star, Pete Postlethwaite, threatened to return his OBE if the UK government gave the go-ahead to the controversial Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent. [19] [10] A month later the government announced a change to its policy on coal - no new coal-fired power station will get government consent unless it can capture and bury 25% of the emissions it produces immediately - and 100% of emissions by 2025. This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" 10 YEARS ON The Age of Stupid was re-released for its 10th Birthday on March 15th 2019. [13] The total run was 13 consecutive weeks, playing in 263 cinemas in all, with the longest single run being four weeks at London's Odeon Panton Street. The review noted the "gallows humor" throughout the film, although the review was critical of the crude animated sequences. The approach, now popular with independent filmmakers, involves the pooling of money and other resources to support efforts initiated by other people or organisations. Find all the best television shows from the other side of the pond in our US TV store and catch the latest shows in our 2014's Hottest TV page. Written by Genres: Documentary, Dystopian, Animation, Post-Apocalyptic. It aims to scare and galvanize – and it's pretty good at both. This was the film's official website during its pre and post production. ], An offshoot of The Age of Stupid project is 10:10, a UK-wide campaign encouraging everyone in the United Kingdom to reduce their carbon emissions by at least 10% in 12 months. The Telegraph's reviewer, Sukhdev Sandhu, said, "Bold, supremely provocative, and hugely important, [Armstrong's] film is a cry from the heart as much as a roar for necessary change. on. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place. The Age of Stupid is a 2009 British documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong, with first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. "[22], Based on only 12 reviews Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 73%. Alone in his vast repository off the coast of the largely ice-free Arctic, he reviews archival footage from back "when we could have saved ourselves", trying to discern where it all went wrong. McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history. 11 years ago. Or it’s the Age of Stupid today. in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palestinian Territories, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. A green carpet cinema tent in downtown New York, powered by locally sourced biodiesel, was linked by satellite to 442 cinemas across the USA and to more than 200 cinemas in more than 30 other countries, as well as another 33 countries which hosted independent screenings with no satellite link. The original rough cut did not include the archivist, which was added later to frame the story and better tie together the six parts. The Sydney Morning Herald described the film as "a wake-up call with an elegiac tone – not quite hectoring but pressing. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Thusly, The Age of Stupid's £450,000 budget was raised by selling "shares" to 223 individuals and groups who each donated between £500 and £35,000. These investors all own a percentage of the film and have received a pro-rata share in the profits, alongside the 105 crew members who worked for survival wages. The film is set in 2055, in a world ravaged by catastrophic climate change; London is flooded, Sydney is burning, Las Vegas has been swallowed up by desert, the Amazon rainforest has burnt up, snow has vanished from the Alps, and nuclear war has laid waste to India. Published. Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements. After the cost of writing the software[clarification needed] was paid off, 100% of the proceeds went to pay back the crowdfunding investors. [7], During the post show discussion, which was broadcast live across the internet and at screenings,[8] President Mohamed Nasheed received a standing ovation for announcing that the Maldives would be the world's first carbon neutral country. Adela Pickles. Title: At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment, but it was not until Kurt Cobain's 1994 death, at age 27, that the idea of a "27 Club" began to catch on in public perception. Share; Tweet; L ooking back from the vantage point of a devastated, CG-crafted future, Franny Armstrong’s cautionary climate-change tale The Age of Stupid outlines the present day ills that, in the film’s hypothetical setting, effectively made the world uninhabitable by 2055. 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