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Milk, round 1.
daily.greencine.com - 11/5/2008
Milk, round 1.
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" 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, charismatic San Francisco gay activist and ...
Could an earlier ‘Milk’ release have killed Prop 8?
incontention.com - 11/5/2008
Could an earlier ‘Milk’ release have killed Prop 8?
— 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 ... (more) Could an earlier ‘Milk’ release have killed Prop 8?

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Harvey Milk Rally (video)
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youtube.com - 11/6/2008
Harvey Milk Rally (video)
— youtube.com — Harvey Milk's inspiring speech from Focus Features' film Milk.... (more) Harvey Milk Rally (video)

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variety.com - 11/2/2008
Milk Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Milk
— 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, ... (more) Milk Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Milk

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Thompson On Hollywood:  Oscar Watch: Milk and Proposition 8

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Oscar Watch: Milk and Proposition 8
Thompson On Hollywood — ... about gay activist Harvey Milk, which is ostensibly set in our dark anti-gay 70s past, and realize that we have not come far enough. In Contention's Kris Tapley asks if an earlier release of Milk might have boosted Proposition 8. A lot of people are scratching their heads about how the gay marriage ban was passed--even in L.A. County. The fact that California did not defeat the ban could energize the largely Liberal Academy base. GreenCine does an early critical round-up. ...

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fourfour.typepad.com 12/5/2008 — I wonder what I would think of Milk if I weren't gay. Probably not very much, actually. I'm cynical enough to dislike pop culture that aligns with my ideals if the outcome is muddled or overly broad (like Crash or...
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weblogs.variety.com 2/8/2009 — Milk scripter Dustin Lance Black, 34, tearfully accepted the Writers Guild Award for best original screenplay for Milk Saturday night by calling up the ghost of slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the man who inspired Black when he moved to ...
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filmstalker.co.uk 4/19/2009 — It's hard to understand why anyone would ban the film Milk considering it is such an important film about human rights and how antiquated and intolerant the supposed free world can still be, but it's happened, even if it is in a small country. The ...
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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 ...