Earth Days Hollywood Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Release Date:- 14 August,2009 (limited).
Genre: Documentary
Banner: WGBH, Robert Stone Productions, American Experience
Production: Robert Stone
Director: Robert Stone
Producers: Thomas Tull, Lesley Chilcott, Peter Afterman, Davis Guggenheim
Director of photography: Howard Shack
Editor: Don Kleszy
Plot Summary
It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, “Earth Days” looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller “Silent Spring,” to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
“Earth Days’” secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs.
Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (”Oswald’s Ghost,” “Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst”), “Earth Days” is both a poetic meditation on humanity’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities—of groundbreaking eco-activism.
Review
While the publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring in 1962 has been cited by many as the dawn of the environmental movement, the celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970 demonstrated to many that the concern over pollution, overpopulation, and the abuse of our natural resources was no longer the task of a handful of scientists but something that had caught the attention of people all around the world. Filmmaker Robert Stone offers a historic look at the events leading up to the initial Earth Day event (and what has and hasn’t happened to protect the planet since then) in the documentary Earth Days. Stone offers a thumbnail history of the early days of the environmental movement, profiles several of the movers and shakers behind the initial Earth Day event (including Stuart Brand, Rusty Schweickart, Stewart Udall, and Paul Ehrlich), and compares what politicians have promised to do about the environment since 1970 to what has actually taken place. Earth Days received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
“Earth Days’” secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald’s Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on humanity’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities—of groundbreaking eco-activism.
Have you noticed whenever a Hollywood movie deals with the environment its plot usually involves the destruction of Earth? These environmental disaster movies often fly in the face of basic logic, usually aiming for a “woah, cool” response from the viewer rather than any renewed interest in environmental activism.
This year, in honor of Earth Day, Disney takes the opposite approach with the warm and fuzzy family-targeted documentary “Earth,” but that’s not enough to let Hollywood off the hook. As our own way of celebrating Earth Day, we’re rating the overall credibility of Hollywood’s environmental disasters on a scale of 1 to 10—1 being insultingly silly, and 10 being respectably fact-based. Read on for the results—ideally by the light of an energy-saving bulb. —Brett Buckalew, Special to Metromix
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