FilmInFocus: Milk : Movie Splash

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Trailer: “Milk”
Published 9/3/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
[image] Finally, after having to wait forever and a day, the trailer for Academy Award Nominee Gus van Sant’s “ Milk ,” the Harvey Milk biopic, has just been ...

New Trailer For 'Milk' & Official Website
Published 9/3/2008 at The Movie Fanatic Feeds
... . Milk will be in limited theatres on November 26, 2008, and then will open wide on December 5, 2008. OFFICIAL SITE FOR 'MILK' Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon ...

trailer break: ‘Milk’
Published 9/5/2008 by MaryAnn Johanson at (Obsolete Feed)
... , is going to be hopeful and joyous, which is a movie I’d like to see. And it’s probably a movie that will have a far greater impact than the same story told more somberly. Milk opens in limited release November 26.

"Milk" Poster + official site up (kind of)
Published 9/9/2008 at OH NO!!
Director Gus Van Sant posted this on his official MySpace 2 days ago: This had been the previous rumored poster and released artwork for the film: What do you think, ONTD? Is the new poster an upgrade, or a downgrade? source 1, source2 This post approved by the collective fierceness of James Franco and Lucas Grabeel in this movie:

Emile Hirsch Covers Nylon Guys
Published 9/18/2008 by Just Jared at Just Jared
... such a great ensemble. Speed Racer was such a highly controlled performance environment that I found, honestly, a little frustrating at times just because it’s so hard when you’re on the green screen and it’s all about, ‘Bat this eyelash a little bit here.’ On Milk, it was just a free-for-all and we were all going nuts.” Milk opens in theaters everywhere on Friday, December 5th. Visit the official website at MilkTheMovie.com. For more of Emile, visit ...

tMF Controversial: Are you ready for another gay movie? Milk and Little Ashes, anyone?
Published 10/15/2008 at The Movie Fanatic Feeds
... watch these films? Is it the story? Perhaps the cast and most especially the lead actors? Will offscreen controversy help? How about the notoriety or popularity of the main characters? Will love scenes be a plus or a minus factor? Let's take a look at two upcoming movies- Milk and Little Ashes - both with definite gay flavor...Let's take a look and just right after, join the discussion and tell us what you think! - - - Inside the World of Harvey Milk: Gus van Sant's latest feature, Milk , is not as actively promoted as his other 'high-profile' movies. Perhaps I might be wrong ...

Shorts, 10/28.
Published 25 days ago at GreenCine Daily
Gus Van Sant's Milk premieres tonight at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik thinks Focus Features is "hiding it" and lays out a few possible reasons. Meanwhile, Shawn Levy points to Borys Kit's story in the Hollywood Reporter on Fox Searchlight picking up Van Sant and Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's next project, an adaptation of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Related online viewing. ...

‘Milk’ Receives Rave Reviews
Published 19 days ago by Just Jared at Just Jared
... Milk opens on November 26 in limited release and December 5 wide. For more info, visit the MilkTheMovie.com. ...

SFBG. Milk.
Published 3 days ago at GreenCine Daily
"Would Milk, the movie, have helped defeat Prop 8?" asks San Francisco Bay Guardian editor Tim Redmond in a special issue devoted to the film and the political legacy of Harvey Milk. "Nobody knows. But the movie is inspirational, and with any luck will carry the message of Milk's life to the masses." "Pair an effusive and extroverted, larger-than-life politico like Harvey Milk - complete with community-forging charisma, panoramic outlook, and labyrinthine City Hall machinations - with a reserved, ...

Milk Cast Spills: Penn Calls Prop 8 "Manslaughter"
Published 2 days ago by Amanda Spurlock at Gothamist
... Gus Van Sant’s new film Milk tells the story of Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the first openly gay man to be elected to a major public office in the United States, only to be assassinated within his first year of serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At turns tragic and exhilarating, the film chronicles the last eight years of Milk’s life (played by Sean Penn), when he worked on campaigns for public office and the protection of gay employees. ...