mcnblogs.com - 11/6/2008
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Proposition 8 Protest Rally & Street Closures - Wednesday, November 5th
As deeply disappointed as we all are that California voters passed Proposition 8, we must not allow that disappointment to linger. This vote is a temporary defeat in the ...
incontention.com - 11/5/2008
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incontention.com —
I find myself just now making sense of
the passing of Proposition 8 here in California, an...
appalling measure that, however naive it may be to admit, I really thought had no chance of passing. Well, it has. Homosexual couples are banned from ...
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Could an earlier ‘Milk’ release have killed Prop 8?
variety.com - 11/2/2008
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variety.com —
A Focus Features release, presented in association with
Axon Films, of a Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company production....
Produced by Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen. Executive producers, Michael London, Dustin Lance Black, Bruna Papandrea, Barbara A. Hall, ...
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Milk Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Milk
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iW ROUND UP | Thursday, November 6th
indieWIRE Recent —
indieWIRE's snapshot of news and views from around the web on Thursday.
BritDoc Shift AJ Schnack reports, the three year old British doc festival shifts, will collaborate with Sheffield doc fest. Pamela Cohn weighs in as well. [ATWT]
RIP: Pioneer Theater An East Village venue closes. [REELER]
"Milk" It David Poland suggests connecting Gus Van Sant's "Milk" more overtly to the California battle over gay marriage. [HOT BLOG]
Landslide of hope Michael Moore's letter the day ...
Because the Bible Told Me So
Stale Popcorn —
... and here for example) as to whether the release of Harvey Milk biopic Milk could have helped Prop 8 fail. I certainly think it couldn't have hurt. A discussion was quite necessary. ...
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Review: Milk
cinematical.com 12/1/2008 —
Milk is a well-intentioned film, but it's also well-made, and it never confuses nobility of purpose with narrative direction. It's full of inspiration and aspiration, but at the same time, it never kids itself -- or us -- about the tricky, twisty ...
Milk, round 2.
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 ...
New Photos: Gus Van Sant’s Milk
slashfilm.com 10/14/2008 —
Focus Features has released 13 new production photos from Gus Van Sant’s Milk. The film will premiere in San Francisco next week at the historic Castro Theatre. Check out 12 more photos after the jump.
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Gus Van Sant's Milk Has Just Become So Much More Relevant
firstshowing.net 11/6/2008 —
It wasn't a victory for everyone yesterday. I really hate mixing politics and journalism, but I can't help it today, because I feel like I need to promote Gus Van Sant's Milk even more based on the results of the election in California. For ...
This Is Why We Don't Drink Soy: 'Milk' Is A Full-On Winner
theplaylist.blogspot.com 10/29/2008 — Damn, check it. This just in from a tipster. Quite the fully-realized review. We managed to sneak in to see Gus Van Sant 's latest " Milk ," about former San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, starring Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin , ...
Movie Review - 'Milk'
getthebigpicture.net 11/26/2008 — Sean Penn stars as slain gay activist and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk in a bio-pic that blindly stumbled into great timing with California's recent passage of Prop 8.
MILK and Irony
blog.spout.com 11/25/2008 — Irony held center stage at the press conference for Milk , Gus Van Sant’s passionate biopic about the first openly gay man elected to higher office in the United States, that took place at The Regency Hotel in Manhattan a little more than two weeks ...
Oscar Watch: Milk and Proposition 8
weblogs.variety.com 11/7/2008 — The odd thing about the unfortunate passing of the gay marriage ban Proposition 8 is that it could actually boost Milk's Oscar chances.
So many people will see Gus Van Sant's biopic about gay activist Harvey Milk , which is ostensibly set in our ...
Milk - Twilight - Australia -- New York Magazine Movie Review
nymag.com 11/24/2008 — W hile 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. They re not crinkles, they re furrows; they seem to stretch all the way down to his soul. As ...
Milk Review
movieblog.ugo.com 11/26/2008 — Like a good many film biographies, Milk reduces the struggles of its subject - gay-rights activist Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) - to a mostly inoffensive checklist. It’s a dispassionate piece of work that I suspect will have the firebrand emotion it so ...
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