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EARTH DAYS a new film by Robert Stone
Opens in NY August 14, 2009 @ The Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street
Opens in Los Angeles August 21, 2009 @ Laemmle Monica 4, Santa Monica & Laemmle Sunset 5, West Hollywood
Opens nationwide September 11, 2009

About the film:
"A rapturous and enlightening testament to what the environmental movement
has meant in America, and to why it now means more than ever."
-Owen Gleiberman,Entertainment Weekly

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 Dayslooks 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 bestsellerSilent 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 Bombauthor Paul Ehrlich;Whole Earth Catalogfounder 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 tableau to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald's Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst)Earth Daysis 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.

http://www.earthdaysmovie.com