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Milk: After 30 Years, a Film Returns to a Harrowing Time in San Francisco

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Kd5000:

--- Quote from: E for O on October 30, 2008, 12:23:14 pm ---This trailer showed at a movie I saw the other day, and I heard nothing from the audience, in a good way.




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Well that's how ppl responded at my cinema when they saw the trailer for Brokeback Mountain. It was a bit more cryptic. NO RAINBOW FLAGS. NO mention of the word homosexual.  Of course, a friend of mine in Los Angeles said the audience laughed when they saw the trailer for BBM. I guess the L.A. crowd was more in the know about what Brokeback Mountain was going to be about. Of course, by Oscar time, nobody was laughing. 

Artiste:
Interesting posts !

And, merci, that's thanks for description of what each colour means !

More please...
au revoir,
hugs!

Lynne:
Thanks for your posts, John - especially the clip of Harvey Milk's last words.

In one of those 'small world' or 'six degrees' ways, it turns out that my best friend since junior high is connected to Charles Baker of the Baker v Carr decision, which led to the redistricting that ultimately resulted in Milk's election for the Castro district.

When I went from the Don Wroe trip to TN last month, she picked me up at the airport and on the drive home I was telling her about our weekend, including watching the Milk documentary.  It turns out that her mother and Charles Baker grew up together - he was a bit older and 'babysat' her.  While in law school, she interviewed him about this for a class project.  I have not seen it yet - she's in the process of getting the video converted to digital.  When she does, she's happy to make it available to anyone who is interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_v._Carr

Artiste:
I long to see this movie !

Any more information about it ?

Please !

Au revoir,
hugs!

oilgun:
From http://weblogs.variety.com/hal/2008/11/did-milk-miss-t.html

Did "Milk" miss the opportunity to change history?

In the election aftermath, Kristopher Tapley poses an intriguing question: "Could an earlier ‘Milk’ release have killed Prop 8?" As he points out, much of "Milk" is dedicated to the fight against Proposition 6, a 1978 ballot measure that would prevented gay people from working as educators. "The parallels between the campaign chronicled in the movie and the real-life battle over Proposition 8 are striking," he writes. "Harvey Milk (Sean Penn’s career-best portrayal) makes the point, to paraphrase, 'We have to make them understand that they know us.' That message, I think, might have carried a lot of heft if voters had made it to the polls four weeks later.... A studio’s priority is, of course, to shareholders, and 'Milk' is likely to make more money in its current release plan than something earlier in the season. But you can’t help but wonder what might have been. And you can’t 'give ‘em hope' after the fact." (As I posted this, an email from Focus Features arrived to remind me that "Milk" release dates begin November 26.)

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