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Massawyrm calls MILK the most important civil rights film of the decade!!!
aintitcool.com - 12/2/2008
Massawyrm calls MILK the most important civil rights film of the decade!!!
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Hola all. Massawyrm here. I wish to god they had found a better name than Milk for this film. No, I know. The name is entirely appropriate, what with it being the last name of the title character. But it’s just not evocative. When I tell people “You’ve really got to see Milk ,” they just kind ...
The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2008
bfca.org - 12/9/2008
The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2008
— bfca.org — Critics' Choice Awards The 14th Critics' Choice Awards will be given on 8 January 2009 to honor... the finest achievements in 2008 filmmaking . ** Click here to read the offical Press Release from BFCA and VH1 ** BEST PICTURE Nominees: • Changeling • ... (more) The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2008

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Movie Review | 'Milk': Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death
movies.nytimes.com - 11/26/2008
Movie Review | 'Milk': Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death
— movies.nytimes.com — Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. And “Milk” is a marvel. >... (more) Movie Review | 'Milk': Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes ...

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MCN Awards Watch ... 2008 Critics Choice Awards
moviecitynews.com - 12/9/2008
MCN Awards Watch ... 2008 Critics Choice Awards
— moviecitynews.com — BFCA Critics' Choice Awards 2008 Nominations BEST PICTURE Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark... Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Wall-E The Wrestler BEST ACTOR Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino Richard Jenkins ... (more) MCN Awards Watch ... 2008 Critics Choice Awards

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5 Movies That Really Made a Difference
SpoutBlog — It’s already been called the most important civil rights film of the decade, but only time will tell if Milk has any real impact on the gay marriage issue or any other related civil rights matter. Obviously the film, which is set thirty years in the past, can be appropriated by the campaign to overturn Proposition 8, but if that campaign is successful, it will be difficult to prove with certainty Milk contributed to the end result. The Birth of a Nation may have inspired a reformation of the Ku Klux Klan and ...

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daily.greencine.com 10/29/2008 — "The guests came to the Castro Theatre on Tuesday dressed in Levi's and designer dresses, '70s-chic velvet jackets and drag-queen heels and glitter," reports Steven Winn for the San Francisco Chronicle . "It looked like a glamorous early start on ...
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Milk, round 1.
daily.greencine.com 11/5/2008 — " Milk , written by Dustin Lance Black and directed by Gus Van Sant , is the first great film to look at civil rights from the perspective of the gay movement," writes the Hollywood Reporter 's Kirk Honeycutt . "The subject, of course, is the late, ...
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daily.greencine.com 11/29/2008 — "While not up there in the annals of transformation with Robert De Niro 's poundage or Daniel Day-Lewis 's palsy, Sean Penn 's smile lines in Milk are a wonder," writes David Edelstein in New York . "They're not crinkles, they're furrows; they ...