DVD
REVIEW: THE AGE OF STUPID
08/21/10
OVERVIEW: The year is
2055. The Earth is devastated. One man remains in "The
Global Archive," a vast storage facility protecting all of
humanity's collective achievements in art, science, music and
literature, as well as pickled specimens of thousands of rescued
animal and plant species. Featuring Oscar® nominee Pete Postlethwaite, The Usual Suspects, Clash of the Titans)
and music from Radiohead, Depeche Mode and The Stupid Orchestra,
The Age of Stupid hits DVD stores as a 2 Disc eco-pack on August
24th 2010.
SYNOPSIS: Based on mainstream scientific projections from the present day, THE AGE OF STUPID focuses on the archivist as he tries to work out why we didn’t save ourselves while we still had the chance. He flips through a startling array of news clips, interviews and scientific reports from our current time, each its own warning sign of the destruction that is looming if we don’t change our current consumption practices.
Through the clips, we meet a variety of individuals--a climbing
instructor at Mont Blanc, a girl coming of age in the devastated
Niger River Delta, an activist campaigning for wind power in the
U.K., an oil-industry worker impacted by Hurricane Katrina-who
caution us about the impacts of our profligacy, but all face a
culture that refuses to alter its habits, and hence knowingly
destroys its only home.
From the director of
ground-breaking indie doc McLibe, noe seen by more than 22
million people, and the producer of the Academy Award®-winning One Day in September, the fresh, fast-paced and often hilarious THE AGE OF STUPID continues to break all the rules of independent film distribution--including
raising its budget entirely from "crowd funding",
powering its UK premiere entirely by solar energy (and therefore
only producing 1% of the normal emissions), pioneering a new
local community distribution models calls "Indie
Screening" and smashing the world record for the largest
live film event when its "Global Premiere"
reached over a million viewers in 63 countries. On September 21,
2009, the event broadcast via satellite to 700 cinemas across
the globe followed by a panel with former UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan and Gillian Anderson, as well as live music from such
notable stars as Moby and Thom Yorke from Radiohead.
VIDEO:
Fullscreen 1:33:1
AUDIO:
Dolby Digital
2.0 English
SUBTITLES:Arabic, Bengaii, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Hanji and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, HIndi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili (Swahili), Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo, Croat, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese
SPECIAL FEATURES: Contains over 5 hours of bonus
material
50-minute Making-Of
Documentary
Pete Postlethwaite Ambushing the UK’s Minister for Climate
Change
8 Deleted
Scenes
8 Extended
Interviews
8 Short Climate
Films
Crew
Commentary
Trailers
Right to Reply from Alvin, Fernand and
Piers
Launch of the 10:10
Campaign
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