Earth Days News

With an expanded array of programming, the upcoming Environmental Film Festival at the Princeton Public Library offers a powerhouse assembly of films, speakers, discussions, and diverse subject matter, for what promises to be an engaging two weeks in the new year.

Not nearly as hippie-dippy as it sounds, the new eco-doc Earth Days paints a pointed, occasionally freaky picture of the dire state of the planet.

Produced for the PBS series The American Experience , this talking-heads documentary by Robert Stone offers a dull, congratulatory chronicle of the U.S. environmental movement, beginning with the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and concluding with the election of Ronald Reagan 18 years later.

Victor Sjostrom was one of the greatest directors of the silent era, and also a fine actor.

It's the end of the world as we know it at this year's Stockholm Film Festival, which promises everything a budding apocalypticist could ever need.

The Canyon Eion Bailey and Yvonne Strahovski star in this thriller as a couple who get lost while taking a mule tour of the Grand Canyon.

Along with the eye-opening archival footage and alarming facts Earth Days is an honest appraisal of the U.S. environmental movement -- warts and all.

To help viewers better understand the Great Recession, PBS ' American Experience series is revisiting the Great Depression with a five-part documentary package The 1930s , starting Monday night .

"Earth Days": Filmmaker Robert Stone uses interviews and archival footage in a documentary that traces the history of the modern environmental movement from the first postwar rustlings in the 1950s to the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" in 1962 to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970.

Signs of a growing environmental consciousness are increasingly evident across America - and the Tufts campus is no exception.

Marla Deschamps and Juan Pablo de Santiago in "I'm Going to Explode." PDX LAFF WRAP In its third year, the Portland Latin American Film Festival expands on its diverse contemporary offerings from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Mexico by including a number of music concerts and documentaries.

Amanda Seyfried stars in the horror flick "Jennifer's Body.'' New releases Act of God Jennifer Baichwal's documentary looks at lightning and people who have been hit by it, either figuratively or literally.

L. Hunter Lovins and others discuss environmental issues over a stirring musical score.

Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman and Kristen Bell play three couples heading to a marriage retreat on a picturesque Pacific island to confront some very ugly realities about their respective romances.

HYDE PARK - The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will present 'The American Experience,' a PBS film preview of 'The 1930s: The Civilian Conservation Corps,' from Academy Award-nominated director and Rhinebeck resident Robert Stone.

Robert Stone 's "Earth Days" is a surprisingly calm documentary about the history of American ecological activism.

Capsule reviews of films currently playing at area theaters by Truth movie columnist Ben Ford , the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times .

The September Issue. R.J. Cutler's documentary version of The Devil Wears Prada, a revealing inside look at the putting-together of the year's fattest issue of Vogue, what turns out to be history's fattest issue ever.

Documentary. Directed by Robert Stone. Images View More Images Add "Earth Days" to the growing list of perfectly serviceable eco-documentaries that aim to educate the children, inform the masses and save our Earth from human excess and global warming.

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Louis Peitzman, Lynn Rapoport, Ben Richardson, and Matt Sussman.