daily.greencine.com - 10/29/2008
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"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 Halloween, but actually it was a Hollywood ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 10/28/2008
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hollywoodreporter.com —
Fox Searchlight has picked up "The Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test," a project which reunites the "Milk" team
of director Gus Van Sant and writer Dustin Lance Black. Richard Gladstein and his Film Colony banner are attached to produce. "Kool-Aid," based ...
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Duo takes 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'
mcnblogs.com - 10/29/2008
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mcnblogs.com —
This is a quickie between films, but... 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 ...
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Milk Does A Critic Good
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?
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Milk Premieres in San Francisco
Thompson On Hollywood —
... Focus Features had a plan: mount the world premiere of Milk, the gay agitprop biopic about San Francisco mayor Harvey Milk, on the 30th anniversary of his death, at the famed Castro Theatre, in San Francisco. Universal's specialty distrib, which also released Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, held off on showing the pic to the press (except for some long-lead folks) until the same day as the SF launch Tuesday night. Here's Greencine and ...
Links for the Day (October 30th, 2008)
The House Next Door —
... of Aaron Aradillas' Back By Midnight (also embedded above) is dedicated to The New World: Extended Cut. Guests include production designer Jack Fisk and HND Editor Emeritus Matt Zoller Seitz. Aaron also offers a tribute to our late, lamented friend and colleague Andrew Johnston. ["There is only this. All else is unreal."] *** 4. GreenCine gathers reports and reactions from the Milk premiere in San Francisco. [ ...
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Milk Premiere Brings Back Memories —
Awards Daily
Phil Bronstein, editor of the SF Chronicle (and Sharon Stone’s ex) writes up the premiere of Milk. He writes of Josh Brolin:
I’d walked the District 8 neighborhood with Dan White, doing a few stories about this seemingly earnest guy a bit in over his head. Josh ...
MILK PREMIERES IN SAN FRANCISCO —
Filmmaker Magazine
Executive producer William Horberg attended the premiere of Gus Van Sant's Milk last night in San Francisco and writes about it on his blog.
An excerpt:
It was almost 37 years ago that Harvey Milk, the subject of the film, moved to the Castro District from New York City and set up his camera ...
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