movieblog.ugo.com - 11/26/2008
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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 sorely lacks foisted upon it by preached-to ...
Exclusive: Gus Van Sant Sheds Light on Milk
comingsoon.net 11/21/2008 — ComingSoon.net talks to director Gus Van Sant ( Good Will Hunting , Elephant ) about his new biopic Milk , about the political career of openly gay San Francisco activist Harvey Milk, as played by Sean Penn.
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.
Sweetened, Condensed Milk —
The Moviegoer
The Oscar movie season kicks into high gear this week with the release of Milk , Gus Van Sant’s biopic of Harvey Milk, the businessman and politician who in 1976 became the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States when he joined San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. ...
White Noise: Josh Brolin on Being the Bad Guy in Milk —
GreenCine
Josh Brolin plays Harvey Milk 's fellow supervisor Dan White , who eventually pulled the trigger and ended Milk's life in 1978. (The real-life White received only a light sentence based on what came to be known as "the Twinkie defense." See the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk ...
Review: Milk —
Cinematical
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 ways of modern American urban politics. It's a ...
Movie Review: Milk (2008) —
RopeofSilicon.com
Josh Brolin and Sean Penn in Milk
Photo: Focus Features
The less you know about Harvey Milk the more this film is going to affect you as Sean Penn gives a performance to remember telling the story of a man that is sure to inspire many, especially in a time when gay rights has pushed ...
HARVEY MILK AT 575 CASTRO STREET —
Filmmaker Magazine
New on the FilmInFocus site is "575 Castro Street," a short film by San Francisco filmmaker Jenni Olson (The Joy of Life). The film contains images shot on the set of Gus Van Sant's film over which audio from the real Harvey Milk is played.
Excerpted from her director's statement, which can be ...
Cinemark Boycott Extends Specifically to 'Milk' —
Cinematical
In a fitting move to, ahem, milk the boycott against Cinemark Theaters and its subsidiaries for having openly supported Proposition 8's ban on gay marriage, moviegoers are now being encouraged to see Gus van Sant's new film, Milk -- a biopic about Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), who ...
It Does No-Body Good: Milk—Take 2 —
The House Next Door
By Dan Callahan [ Milk opens in theaters on Wednesday, November 26th. ] Slain politician Harvey Milk was a gay pioneer and by all accounts a real mensch and role model, and his story was told in full for the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk . Now Gus Van Sant is trolling for awards with ...
Beautiful Dreamer: Milk—Take 1 —
The House Next Door
By Lauren Wissot [ Milk opens in theaters Wednesday, November 26th. Click here to read Lauren's Spout Blog coverage of the film's press conference. ] Milk , Gus Van Sant’s labor of love biopic about civil rights leader Harvey Milk (the first openly gay man elected to higher office in the ...
Milk —
Cinema Blend Movie Reviews
When Dustin Lance Black began writing a screenplay about Harvey Milk in 2004, Barack Obama was an unknown local politician, and the wave of state bans on gay marriages had only begun as ballot initiatives. And while IMilkI would be an excellent film any year, coming as it does in November 2008, ...
"Milk" Preview & Trailer - Sean Penn Rocks —
Film Gecko
I was a senior in high school in 1978, and while I had no idea who Harvey Milk was, his presence affected me because two of my best friends in high school were gay. It seems that we’re all connected one way or another, and I really appreciate Sean Penn ’s work, so I’m ...
Maureen Dowd Talks Milk —
Awards Daily
Thanks to RJ for forwarding this link. Maureen Dowd discusses the film Milk, Prop 6, Prop 8, and how it relates to this pivotal election year:
There is 1978 footage of a stricken Feinstein in the opening minutes of the new Gus Van Sant biopic of Harvey Milk, her colleague on the San ...
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