youtube.com - 11/6/2008
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Harvey Milk's inspiring speech from Focus Features' film Milk.
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?
variety.com - 11/2/2008
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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, ...
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Milk Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Milk
mcnblogs.com - 11/6/2008
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mcnblogs.com —
*************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 ...
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MILK It.
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New Milk Clip Stings Post Prop 8
TheBadandUgly.com —
Gus Van Sant’s gay-rights biopic Milk about the Sean Penn-played Harvey Milk of San Francisco released a short clip on election day featuring Penn’s Milk reminding everyone that “all men are created equal.”
Milk, which we’ll get to see when it bows into the box office on November 26th this year is the first fictional film to tell the story of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who is considered by most to be the first openly gay man elected to public office. The previous film about Milk, the documentary titled The Times of Harvey Milk, won an Academy Award at the ’84 Oscars for best ...
New 'Milk' Clip: Sean Penn As Harvey Milk At An Anti-Prop 6 Rally
:: The Playlist :: —
"On the declaration it is written, 'All men are created equal.' No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words. That is what America is!," Sean Penn says in this newly released and very quick, "Milk" clip. Focus Features' immediate response to Prop 8? Hmm, either way, timely and more relevant than ever. 1978: Proposition 6, more commonly known as The Briggs Initiative, was an initiative on the California State ballot in 1978. Sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator ...
Election Fallout: Why Milk Will be the Timeliest Movie of 2008
Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope —
Two main stories have emerged in the wake of 2008’s historic elections: America will have an African-American president for the first time in its history and same-sex marriages were banned in California, Arizona, and Florida. While seemingly independent, reactions to the votes show that they are inextricably linked. Ellen DeGeneres may have summed up their relationship the best: “Here we just had a giant step towards equality [by electing Obama] and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away [by passing Prop 8].” Both issues will be placed center-stage in Gus Van Sant’s upcoming biopic Milk . Milk follows the life of Harvey Milk, a ...
Screengrab Predicts the Oscars: The Winners (Part Five)
The Screengrab —
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY And the nominees are... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan The Reader - David Hare Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy Doubt - John Patrick Shanley Paul Clark Predicts: Slumdog Millionaire It’s the Best Picture nominee, so it’ll win here too. Andrew Osborne Predicts: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ugh.
Leonard Pierce Predicts: ...
10 Surprisingly Good Portrayals of Iconic Figures
SpoutBlog —
Many critics will no doubt rip apart Robert Pattinson’s performance as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes this weekend, but the truth is that it’s a surprisingly good portrayal of the artist. That is to say that given our expectations, combined with Pattinson’s own celebrity, added to the fact that anyone would look ridiculous sporting Dali’s signature mustache (even Dali), the Twilight actor does as well in the role as is possible. Is the performance Oscar-worthy? Certainly not, but it is deserving of some level of praise.
Pattinson’s Dali follows a ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 , ...
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.
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 ...