Sustainability in Daily Life Oct 27, 2009
The Age of Stupid (2009) Starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite, this film is set in the year 2055. Postlethwaite plays an archivist who looks back on the present and asks: Why didn't we do something about climate change before it was too late. (Scientific American)
* Saving a nation from rising seas Oct 13, 2009
Thus, the people of the Maldives had their first glimpse of Franny Armstrongs documentary, The Age of Stupid, in which Pete Postlethwaite plays the last man left alive in a post-apocalyptic, climate-fried world. The film is scrappy but passionate, a classic example of agit-prop cinema. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Hundreds queue for role in Brighton Rock remake Oct 4, 2009
Pete Postlethwaite and Happy Go Lucky's Andrea Riseborough will also star in the remake. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Fake Documentary 'The Age of Stupid' Is Dishonest from the Start Sep 19, 2009
It is billed as a documentary, but it is set in the future with an actor (Pete Postlethwaite) reading a script. Postlethwaites character, "the Archivist," looks at documentary footage which shows we, in the here and now, were all so stupid that by 2050 the human race is about to become extinct due to man-man climate change. (Human Events Online)
BMJ joins the 10:10 climate change campaign Sep 6, 2009
Several high profile individuals and organisations have already signed up, including Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the actors Gillian Anderson and Pete Postlethwaite, and Nicholas Stern, former head of the Government Economic Service and author of the influential report on the economics of climate change, published in 2006. Ten NHS organisations have also committed to the 10% carbon reduction next year. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Fall movies: New Moon, other anticipated flicks coming to theaters soon Sep 4, 2009
The Sierra Vista Herald. Last updated on Thursday, Sep 03, 2009 - 02:18:28 am MST. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Green pledge campaign launches Sep 3, 2009
Celebrities such as cook Delia Smith, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, TV presenter Kevin McCloud and actors Samantha Morton, Colin Firth and Pete Postlethwaite, the star of the Age of Stupid, have signed up. The minister for energy and climate change, Ed Miliband, has also signed up. (BBC News -- Science)
Brighton Rock remake for Mirren Aug 28, 2009
Pete Postlethwaite and Happy Go Lucky's Andrea Riseborough will also star in the updated remake, set in the 1960s. Filming is due to begin in October. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Artist greens up his act Aug 21, 2009
Pete Postlethwaite in character as the last man on earth in the doomsday eco-film The Age of Stupid ... Actor Pete Postlethwaite goes environmental ... ACCLAIMED character actor Pete Postlethwaite was in Sydney this week for Wednesday night's premiere of his new film but he didn't arrive in a limousine or live it large at any lavish after-parties. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Age Of Stupid Aug 19, 2009
Pete Postlethwaite consults a futuristic archive ... Pete Postlethwaite plays a man looking back from 2055 atop a great tower in the Arctic Circle ... Pete Postlethwaite consults a futuristic archive. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
SDCC 09: Solomon Kane Chat Jul 30, 2009
Because putting him at the center of it all and then putting him in a cast with Max von Sydow and Pete Postlethwaite and Rachel Hurd-Wood, you've suddenly got a package. Yes, you get all the concept art and the key art. (IGN FilmForce)
Carbon-neutral goal for Maldives Mar 16, 2009
" It is estimated that the Maldives, which has high levels of poverty, will need to spend about $110m a year to make the transition to renewable energy sources. Asked how it could afford this, the president said the country was already spending similar sums on existing energy sources, and he expected to recover the extra cost within the decade. "We start almost from scratch, we are having to go for new investments in almost all areas and it is quite pointless for us to go to yesterday's... (BBC News -- Science)
'Green carpet' premiere for film Mar 16, 2009
Its star Pete Postlethwaite spoke about the film on the "green carpet". SEE ALSO. (BBC News -- UK)
"The Age of Stupid" Cometh Mar 13, 2009
This screengrab from "The Age of Stupid" shows actor Pete Postlethwaite interacting with the futuristic interface designed specifically for the film ... Instead, Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite was brought in to play a member of our generation - but older and wiser, living in the year 2055. (CBS News)
Goold's "Lear" shines with rare clarity and emotion Feb 24, 2009
Amanda Hale as Cordelia and Pete Postlethwaite as Lear in Rupert Goold's tweaked version of the play in London ... Even more out of the ordinary was a BBC radio interview that was given at the time by the show's leading man, Pete Postlethwaite, hinting at a collective dissatisfaction among the ranks. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Three Days Of Rain, Apollo Theatre, London Feb 12, 2009
There's a lot of rain about on the London stage at the moment: Pete Postlethwaite is caught nightly in drizzle as King Lear at the Young Vic; Janie Dee fantasises in a downpour in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville; and the rain it, well, raineth every bloody day in Twelfth Night at Wyndham's. And now soap stud Nigel Harman could do with some soapsuds as he flexes his pecs in the wet stuff in the revival of the American Richard Greenberg's cunning comedy Three Days of Rain, already... (Independent)
First Night: Three Days Of Rain, Apollo Theatre, London Feb 11, 2009
Pete Postlethwaite is caught nightly in a posh cloud of fine drizzle as King Lear at the Young Vic, while Janie Dee fantasises a sexual encounter in a downpour on her own back lawn in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville and the rain it, well, raineth every bloody day in Twelfth Night at Wyndham's. And now the soap stud Nigel Harman could do with some soap suds as he flexes his pecs in a sheet curtain of sparkling wet stuff in the revival of US playwright Richard Greenberg's cunning... (Independent)
