getthebigpicture.net - 3/3/2009
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Sean Penn is putting his Oscar to good use, campaigning to honor the character he portrayed with a "day of significance" in California. A new bill sponsored by state Senator Mark Leno would honor Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights activist and San Francisco politician, on May 22nd, Milk's ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Harvey Milk Doc Scores Online
weblogs.variety.com 1/2/2009 — While Gus Van Sant's biopic Milk, starring Sean Penn as the murdered San Francisco gay activist , is enjoying a strong award-season run, many are also discovering Rob Epstein's classic 1984 doc, the Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk. And ...
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 ...
MILK It.
mcnblogs.com 11/6/2008 — *************SPECIAL BULLETIN*************
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 ...
My movie, my friend
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...