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Oscars: green, but not braggy	Sarah van Schagen	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
As I reported last week, the Oscars went green(er) again this year. But if you watched the awards show last night, you might have noticed there was nary a mention of it, aside from a few jokes from Jon Stewart -- quite a contrast to last year's Al-and-Leo show. In other green-award-show news, the Independent Spirit Awards, held Saturday night, also had a green tinge. Ed Begley, Jr., even made an appearance to help power the event via bicycle. Which I believe wa ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, movies (all these topics)

No country for young men A metaphor for climate change and modern politics, in film form	Joseph Romm	24 Feb 2008	Gristmill
That would be the title of An Inconvenient Truth, if it had been produced by the Coen brothers -- since young men (and women) are poised to suffer through the worst consequences of our immoral short-sightedness. (This is not such an odd pairing of movies, considering that No Country star Tommy Lee Jones was the Harvard roommate of Al Gore). I do think No Country for Old Men deserves the Oscar for best movie of the year because it is brilliantly constructed and ...
Topics: movies (all these topics)

And the green award goes to ... Will Oscar's eco-efforts pale compared to last year?	Sarah van Schagen	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This story has been updated with breaking news about the greening of the Oscars. See below for details. Matt Petersen and Salma Hayek at Global Green's pre-Oscar bash. Photo: Global Green Last year's Academy Awards were a veritable green fest, what with Inconvenient Truth's multiple wins and the Gore/Leo announcement about the Oscars officially going green (albeit via carbon offset). Green itself could have gotten its own award -- perhaps for its role as & ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, movies (all these topics)

X-Men won't mar the spot Wolverine goes green in new movie	Sarah van Schagen	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Marvel at this: X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be an environmentally friendly production. This fourth movie based on the Marvel Comics characters is currently being filmed in New Zealand, and the producers have agreed to work with the local Queenstown Lakes District Council on a "green screen" initiative. As part of the project, the council will do an environmental impact assessment of the sets and find ways to maximize recycling efforts. A "g ...
Topics: celebrity, movies, New Zealand (all these topics)

There will be oil Oscar-nominated film depicts oil production realistically	Joseph Romm	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Anyone interested in oil should see There Will Be Blood, since it is a great film that tells a fascinating and detailed story of the early days of the oil industry in California. Okay, it's Oscar week. I try to see all the Best Picture nominees, which is much tougher now that I have a one-year-old daughter. I missed Atonement [so far], but my wife read the book, so half credit. And lord knows after seeing No Country for Old Men, I don't need to see another down ...
Topics: energy, movies, oil (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Once A song from the most romantic movie of 2007	David Roberts	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last night I finally got around to watching Once, the little Irish indie flick that got so much critical acclaim last year. It is, in fact, a remarkable film -- worthy of the buzz. I'm not sure what you'd call it. A "musical"? Not exactly -- the movie's entirely naturalistic. There's no spontaneous breaking out into song and d ...
Topics: movies, music (all these topics)

Planeteers in heaven Live-action Captain Planet film a no-go	Sarah van Schagen	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Dear children of the '80s,I heard a rumor last week that Warner Bros. studio had announced a live-action film version of the '90s cartoon series Captain Planet and was planning to release it in late 2009. Captain Planet, you say? Why, he's our hero! (Wasn't he gonna take pollution down to zero?)Sadly, though, I must report that I then contacted the Warner folks (and their bros) and found out that this rumor is, in fact, "untrue." I know, I know. I too am ...
Topics: green living, movies, TV (all these topics)

Coming clean Kudos to Seventh Generation on a Hollywood moment	Katharine Wroth	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I'm not saying I paid good money to see 27 Dresses this weekend. Nor am I saying that its ending, however formulaic, made me cry. What I am saying is how nice it was to see a generous, nearly full-screen shot of a Seventh Generation cleaning product clutched in Katherine Heigl's frenzied hand. Not to mention some tossed-off comments about corporate eco-responsibility. Hollywood: making green normal since ... late 2007.
Topics: business, celebrity, green cleaning, green living, green products, movies (all these topics)

Sundance green? Green films premiering at Sundance Film Festival	Sarah van Schagen	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Isabella Rossellini Photo: Duffy-Marie Arnoult / WireImage If you're a super-hip journalist with awesome connections and a sweet gig, you're spending a cush week writing about the Sundance Film Festival from snow- and celeb-covered Park City, Utah. If you're me, you're sitting in front of a computer screen in an office building in Seattle reading about all the super-hip journalists with the awesome connections spending a cush week at Sundance. (Not. ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, movies (all these topics)

Bongy feet	David Roberts	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Parenthood confers many blessings, but the requirement that one watch an endless succession of kiddie movies is not among them. This weekend, I found myself sitting on the bean bag with the boys, watching Happy Feet. You'll recall that the movie caused a bit of buzz in green (and anti-green) circles when it came out, thanks to its environmental message. Having seen it, what seems more striking than the message is the spectacular, bongtastic weirdness of it. *WAR ...**
Topics: movies, parenting (all these topics)

Lights, camera, cuteness! Knut to star in Hollywood flick	Sarah van Schagen	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This 245-lb. fluffball has stolen the spotlight since day one, but Knut may soon make a big-screen debut as the star of an upcoming animated feature. The Berlin Zoo has been approached with a $5 million movie deal for the year-old polar bear. (I assume that'll be paid out in fish and other bear-friendly treats?) Ash R. Shah, producer of Garfield: The Movie, plans to use the film in part to address the fate of the polar bear's Arctic habitat. Says Shah, &quo ...
Topics: Arctic, celebrity, movies, wildlife (all these topics)

Paparazzi, can you hear me? Top green celeb stories of 2007	Sarah van Schagen	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Here are the Official Top Green Celeb Stories of 2007, listed in very particular order and determined via a very scientific process (a combination of my memory and Grist's archives): 5. Brad Pitt adopts Maddox Pax Thien Zahara New Orleans. 4. Leo DiCaprio releases 11th Hour, which sinks into obscurity faster than the Titanic. 3. Primetime television attempts eco-programming; finds out the environment isn't funny. 2. Celeb-studded award shows go green -- ...
Topics: movies, celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics)

In the Flick of Time Big ideas come out of Hollywood Goes Green summit		12 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:21 PM on 12 Dec 2007 "Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation," Arianna Huffington declared recently. Case in point: A two-day Hollywood Goes Green summit that wraps up today. At the summit, tech giant IBM announced a plan to design new technologies that will increase computing capacity by a factor of 10 while using 50 percent less p ...
Topics: business, green living, movies, news (all these topics)

Damn these women and their superpowers! How does Jane Fonda keep defeating the U.S.?	John McGrath	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Full disclosure: I was born in 1981, and as far as I can recall I never masturbated to a picture of Jane Fonda. Too much information, I know. But what else can I do? An eternity ago (September) the guys who brought you Freakonomics brought you this little gem, blaming Jane Fonda for America's CO2 emissions. Seriously: 'The China Syndrome' opened on March 16, 1979. With the no-nukes protest movement in full swing, the movie was attacked by the nuclear ind ...
Topics: nuclear power, energy, celebrity, movies (all these topics)

Enviro movie of the year? A review of The Host	Kit Stolz	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
What is an environmental movie? Is it a movie that uses the beauty of wilderness to make us fall in love with the earth, as for example Into the Wild, or Brokeback Mountain? Is it a movie that explicitly tackles an environmental issue, such as Erin Brockovich, or The China Syndrome? Or is it a picture that exploits the power of raw film to open up an environmental theme -- such as the risk of radiation -- with sheer imagination, such as (the original) God ...
Topics: toxics, waste, water pollution, movies (all these topics)

Looking beyond the obvious Revisiting Into the Wild	Kit Stolz	10 Nov 2007	Gristmill
When the news broke 15 years ago about an idealistic young man who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness, I reacted badly. Plenty of folks, myself included, go alone into the wild and emerge unscathed; in fact, restored to Muirean health and sanity. The national fascination with Chris McCandless' sad end seemed morbid to me -- a morality tale told by the comfortable to justify their easy, unexamined lives. I still think a sick fascination is part of what made ...
Topics: books, movies (all these topics)

King Corn BoingBoinged Interview with filmmakers behind corn expose	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing interviews the filmmakers behind King Corn:
Topics: agriculture, food, movies (all these topics)

Stossel	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Does John Stossel have the brains God gave a chicken wing? Most people say no. Some say yes. One thing's for sure: the debate isn't over!
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, movies (all these topics)

Another skeptic zombie killed, probably not for the last time More on the nine 'errors' in Gore's movie	David Roberts	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
As I said in my earlier post on the subject, there's less than meets the eye to the story of the British judge that found nine "errors" in An Inconvenient Truth. Turns out they weren't errors, just points the judge deemed different enough from the IPCC view to warrant explanatory materials -- and the judge was off about most of them anyway.That hasn't stopped the media from making a total hash of it. Read Tim Lambert's two posts on the Washington Post's war o ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, movies (all these topics)

What a Way to Go A review of a new doomer cult classic	JMG	13 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Some years ago I was alerted to the problem of peak oil by a friend from Bellingham, Wash., way up in the upper left corner of the continental U.S. A nuclear physicist and astronomer, the smartest guy I know, and no doubt someone who uses the serial comma, he had this to say about a new movie called What a Way to Go: Life at the end of empire:Before I committed the college to spend $500 for the viewing, I watched a copy a friend had purchased - all by myself. It was so powerful ...
Topics: energy, movies, oil (all these topics)

Errors in An Inconvenient Truth? Brit judge claims to find errors in Gore movie	Andrew Dessler	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
This just in from Fox News: A High Court judge in London has turned film critic, highlighting 'nine scientific errors' in Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The judge said some of the errors had arisen in 'the context of alarmism and exaggeration' to support the former US vice-president's thesis on global warming. The Government's decision to show the film in secondary schools had come under attack from father-of-two Stewart Dimmock, a Kent school gov ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, movies (all these topics)

On and Off the Green A chat with actor Morgan Freeman	Adam Spangler	14 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
It's 6 p.m. and I'm sitting by the phone in a midtown Manhattan cubicle, waiting for Morgan Freeman to finish a round of golf in Chicago. Freeman is in the Windy City at the invitation of BMW, playing in the car company's golf tournament and talking sustainability and hydrogen technology with Tom Purves, chair and CEO of its North American arm. As part of the trip, he agreed to do a few interviews -- some of his f ...
Topics: biofuels, celebrity, movies (all these topics)

Guest movie review: King Corn Children of the corn armed with movie cameras	Tom Philpott	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Nicole de Beaufort, a long-time advocate for local, sustainable, and accessible food systems. She is principal of Fourth Sector Consulting in North Oaks, Minn., which employs strategic communications to work with food system advocates and funders to mobilize the growing food movement. The film King Corn is set to open in theaters nationwide starting Oct. 12 in New York. ----- In 1977, Stephen King published a short story in Penthouse about some ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, Iowa, movies (all these topics)

Hour Town Leo's feel-good press conference is interrupted by a feel-bad question	Kate Coe	29 Aug 2007	Grist Feature
Leonardo DiCaprio at the premiere of The 11th Hour. Alex Berliner � Berliner Studio/BEImages When celebrities embrace environmental concerns, cranky naysayers pop up like toadstools after a rainstorm. But the mansions and private jets those critics seize upon, while easy targets, might not be the real problem. It might just be that green-leaning celebrities and their handlers need to open the ...
Topics: celebrity, consumerism, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, messaging, movies (all these topics)

A review of Sicko Along with a rambling social commentary	biodiversivist	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Sicko is Michael Moore's best film yet. It brought tears to my eyes and infuriated me at the same time. I saw it last night with my youngest daughter. Ah, let me think here, how am I going to give this an environmental twist? How about using our pathetic health care system as another example of how dysfunctional our political system has become, the same one we are counting on to protect our biosphere and us from peak oil and global warming? The film documents how H ...
Topics: movies, politics (all these topics)

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