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Early Word on ‘Milk’ & Will Its Subdued Advertising Make A Difference?
Fataculture —
... has a ‘gallon’ of new pics for the film too. I don’t think I’ve been this thirsty in a long, long time. David Poland , armed with his iPhone, says, “For the first time in my memory, we have a major Oscar movie that actually is a gay agenda movie. But on the making, it is so much more. It is a brilliant, powerfully humane piece of work that reaches well beyond the issue of gay rights or any idea that this is a gay-only film.” Regarding Sean Penn’s Oscar hopes which many have been prediciting but who can possibly predict better than those who have seen it, “Sean Penn gives an ...
iW ROUND UP | Wednesday, October 29th
Buzz / Rumors —
indieWIRE's snapshot of news and views from around the web on Wednesday
Jeff Wells and Dave Poland on "Milk" Both offer their rather positive thoughts on last night's screening of the Gus Van Sant Oscar hopeful [Hollywood Elsewhere/The Hot Blog]
"Realism on Tap" For AFI Mark Olsen previews the fest, which starts tomorrow. [LAT]
"Revanche" Gets Picked Up Janus and the Criterion Collection acquire rights to Austria's Oscar entry. [VAR]
"Beyond Them And Us" The New York ...
iW ROUND UP | Wednesday, October 29th
indieWIRE Recent —
indieWIRE's snapshot of news and views from around the web on Wednesday
Jeff Wells and Dave Poland on "Milk" Both offer their rather positive thoughts on last night's screening of the Gus Van Sant Oscar hopeful [Hollywood Elsewhere/The Hot Blog]
"Realism on Tap" For AFI Mark Olsen previews the fest, which starts tomorrow. [LAT]
"Revanche" Gets Picked Up Janus and the Criterion Collection acquire rights to Austria's Oscar entry. [VAR]
"Beyond Them And Us" The New York ...
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Film Experience Blog —
StinkyLulu Oscar Smackdown 1976: teen hookers, religious kooks, and women scorned. Love it! Towleroad Interesting. James Schamus (of Focus Features) responds to that Hollywood Reporter article I linked to yesterday on Milk's Oscar campaign CHUD How far we haven't come since the days of Harvey Milk Hot Blog wowed by Van Sant's Milk MetaCafe you have approximately two weeks to make a 30 second commercial for Australia (the movie) and win a trip to NYC ...
Milk Quickie
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Milk Quickie "For the first time in my memory, we have a major Oscar movie that actually is a gay-agenda movie," MCN's David Poland briefly wrote last night . "But on the making, it is so much more. It is a brilliant, powerfully humane piece of work that reaches well beyond the issue of gay rights or any idea that this is a gay-only film. " Sean Penn gives an Oscar lock performance of power and subtlety that ranks with the best of his career. Great work by James Franco and Emile Hirsch . Josh Brolin may not have enough screen time or empathy for awards, but got the ...
Oscar Season Officially Begun: Critics Warm To 'Milk', Including Us
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... David Poland tried to weigh in first from his IPhone. “For the first time in my memory, we have a major Oscar movie that actually is a gay agenda movie. But on the making, it is so much more. It is a brilliant, powerfully humane piece of work that reaches well beyond the issue of gay rights or any idea that this is a gay-only film.Sean Penn gives an Oscar lock performance of power and subtlety that ranks with the best of his career.” ...
Oscar Update: 'Milk' Screening Gets a Strange Bit of Attention
RopeofSilicon.com —
... : Anyway, David Poland was eager to iPhone in his "First!" response on "Milk," and while I agree with his assessment of Sean Penn's phenomenal portrayal, I can't share his overall enthusiasm for the film itself. From this I get the impression that Sean Penn is looking at a nod for Best Actor, we're still not sure about the film and David Poland was the first to write about it. Which one of these points doesn't matter? Scott Feinberg from ...
"Milk," "The Boys In The Band," and the "gay agenda" in cinema...
Some Came Running —
... Which reminds me. And maybe I shouldn't go here. But what the hell. I was reading David "Yes you did, you invaded" Poland's "quickie" reaction to Milk a few weeks back, and was a kinda gobsmacked by his description of it as a "gay agenda" movie. "[A]ctually a gay agenda movie" were his exact words. And I thought, damn, Poland's a good liberal (a very good liberal, as we've all learned while following his election coverage), so why the hell is he using hateful social-conservative code to describe Milk's mission? ...
