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fourfour.typepad.com - 12/5/2008
My movie, my friend
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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...
The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2008
bfca.org - 12/9/2008
The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2008
— bfca.org — Critics' Choice Awards The 14th Critics' Choice Awards will be given on 8 January 2009 to honor... the finest achievements in 2008 filmmaking . ** Click here to read the offical Press Release from BFCA and VH1 ** BEST PICTURE Nominees: • Changeling • ... (more) The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2008

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MCN Awards Watch ... 2008 Critics Choice Awards
moviecitynews.com - 12/9/2008
MCN Awards Watch ... 2008 Critics Choice Awards
— moviecitynews.com — BFCA Critics' Choice Awards 2008 Nominations BEST PICTURE Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark... Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Wall-E The Wrestler BEST ACTOR Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino Richard Jenkins ... (more) MCN Awards Watch ... 2008 Critics Choice Awards

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'Milk' draws big b.o. despite limited release
hollywoodreporter.com - 12/1/2008
'Milk' draws big b.o. despite limited release
— hollywoodreporter.com — The specialty market featured an especially impressive opening this weekend, as Focus Features milked its limited release... of Gus Van Sant's "Milk" with stunning success. The biopic about assassinated San Francisco gay pol Harvey Milk tabulated $1.4 ... (more) 'Milk' draws big b.o. despite limited release

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my new plaid pants — ... --- Split Milk - Even though I'm still not sold on the quality of Gus Van Sant's Milk, it has been weighing on my mind all week. Mostly it's just been about the guilt I feel because of my lukewarm reaction though, and not any real reassessment of the film itself. FourFour reviewed the film today and as usual, Rich says things good. One choice bit: ...

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Mostly Movies — Milk preaches to the choir, but the choir needs to hear. (FourFour/Humanizing the Vacuum) I think that has a little to do with the self-hatred in gays that can keep us from understanding ourselves and those who made our present conditions possible (meager as they may seem), but it also has to do with not being given very much to work with. It'll be a weird day when gay history becomes everybody's history, but a major Hollywood production like Milk advances that endeavor. I've long lamented the lack of a gay figure as inspiring and visible ...

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Milk, round 1.
daily.greencine.com 11/5/2008 — " 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, ...
Milk premiere.
daily.greencine.com 10/29/2008 — "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 ...
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 ...
MILK It.
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 , ...
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. Official Plot ...
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 ...