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Best Movies Ever reports that Columbia yanked Gus Van Sant's movie 'Restless' from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival right after they pulled its release date.Best Movies Ever reports that Columbia yanked Gus Van Sant's movie... more
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Best Movies Ever brings the rest of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Out Of Competition premieres.Best Movies Ever brings the rest of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Out Of Competition... more
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Happy Trash Hump Day! What? That didn't make sense? Well, fake it fake it don't take it. Now for the news:
-Hammer Films continues to attempt a return, this time via the printed word. [Variety]
-Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis have signed on to script a film based on the double suicide of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake [Variety]
-An apt look at how stupid Internet rumors are furthered by crappy gossip sites. This time, we focus on Transformers 3. [Topless Robot]
-Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to direct and co-star in the Matthew McConaughey lawyer, uh, dramedy(?) The Lincoln Lawyer. [THR]
-The eventual Fantastic Mr. Fox/Antichrist mash-up is finally made. Thank GOD. [Movieline]
-A three-part series asks, "Will these guys ever win Oscars?" First up, the olds. [The Playlist]
-John Lichman
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Gus Van Sant's Last Days (2005) was inspired by the life of Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) and stars Michael Pitt as Blake. He is an extremely gifted musician with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Blake is excellently portrayed by Pitt; his eyes and mannerisms show his...Gus Van Sant's Last Days (2005) was inspired by the life of Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)... more
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"I'm not the candidate - the Movement is the candidate." That's what San Francisco gay organizer Harvey Milk said as he ran for Supervisor not once but three times, finally being elected in 1977.
We talk about movements, liberation, the movie, and Milk the man with John Scagliotti, Emmy award winning documentarian, producer of Before Stonewall, and After Stonewall. He's also the director of the Gay Filmmakers' Consortium; Pamela Sneed, poet, performance artist, and former teacher at the Harvey Milk High School in New York City. Pamela's new book is titled KONG and it's out now from Vintage Entities Press. Also with us ANN NORTHROP, co-host of Gay U.S.A. on Free Speech TV, longtime lesbian activist, and all around gadfly."I'm not the candidate - the Movement is the candidate." That's... more
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The New York Film Critics Circle have named Milk as best film. Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant, stars Sean Penn as gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
Penn won best actor for the role and co-star Josh Brolin won the best supporting actor award.The New York Film Critics Circle have named Milk as best film. Milk, directed by Gus... more
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Maybe director Gus Van Sant, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, actor Sean Penn, and everyone involved with Milk thought they were making a nice little tribute to gay activist Harvey Milk, something to remind us that the dark days of Dade County and the "Twinkie defense" are no more. Come Proposition 8 and Newt "Gay and Secular Fascism" Gingrich, and suddenly it looks like, more than ever, we need the film and its lesson of what it takes to defend one's liberties.
I was able to sit down with activist Cleve Jones, who was a friend of Milk and a consultant on the film, for this Air America interview.Maybe director Gus Van Sant, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, actor Sean Penn, and... more
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The opening of "Milk," director Gus Van Sant's account of California's first openly gay politician, is four weeks away. Yet you wouldn't know it.
Unlike the hoopla over Focus Features' previous gay-themed awards magnet, "Brokeback Mountain," which was drawing calls of agenda-pushing from right-wingers months before it opened in 2005, there's been hardly a peep in editorial pages or on talk radio.
Admittedly, the election is a major distraction. But Focus also is doing something deliberate: It's eschewing publicity for the Sean Penn vehicle, keeping it out of the high-profile fall film festivals and heavily restricting media screenings.
"The best way to help this film win over a mainstream audience is to avoid partisanship, and the best way to avoid partisanship is to let people find out about the film from the film itself," said one person involved with the film.
Giving up word-of-mouth to avoid hot air is not a typical trade-off -- notice how Lionsgate effectively flogged politically charged movies like Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic "W." and the Bill Maher documentary "Religulous" -- but it's one Focus is willing to make.
Not that it will last. The political football will be kicked off when the movie premieres Tuesday night in San Francisco and then put in play after the November 4 election. And when that happens, the studio will face a marketing dilemma: how to accommodate the gay-rights angle the core audience expects while appealing to mainstream filmgoers who might not be immediately moved to see a movie about the subject.
One example of those filmgoers: At a recent Vegas test-screening for a middle-class, straight audience, several senior citizens tried to leave after a gay love scene in the early moments but couldn't because they were trapped in the middle of a row (near Focus production chief John Lyons, in fact). The seniors eventually said they were happy that they stayed, but, like independent voters in an election contest, these are the viewers Focus must woo.
Like its initial phase of playing keep-away from cable news, the post-election phase will also involve staying above politics. Focus plans on selling "Milk" in part as a story of hope and change (Harvey Milk, a member of San Francisco's Board of Superviors until his assassination in 1978, won equal-rights battles against great odds), just as it sold "Brokeback" as a love story.
The ploy was logical with "Brokeback." It's less so here.
Like "Brokeback," "Milk" features a gay romance. But unlike "Brokeback," "Milk" is made by gay filmmakers, features the polarizing Penn and puts itself squarely in a political context. Milk's fight against California's anti-gay-rights Proposition 6 -- a drama the movie deals with in great detail -- spookily parallels the current California fight over Proposition 8, a measure that would ban gay marriage.
Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said that "since this movie is about a beloved politician who was killed, it won't be easy for our adversaries to fight us on it." Focus and its Oscar handlers should get the weaponry ready anyway.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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The opening of "Milk," director Gus Van Sant's account of California's first openly gay politician, is four weeks away. Yet you wouldn't know it.
Unlike the hoopla over Focus Features' previous gay-themed awards magnet, "Brokeback Mountain," which was drawing calls of agenda-pushing from right-wingers months before it opened in 2005, there's been hardly a peep in editorial pages or on talk radio.
The opening of "Milk," director Gus Van Sant's account of... more
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To be young and gay or lesbian in the 1970s was to anticipate that your life would be shackled by constant fears of personally devastating public exposure, your life marked as an isolated and lonely, elusively secretive journey, and your closest personal relationships always hidden behind darkened bar windows.
No single person could have changed all of that, and certainly not all the changes have been achieved today. But a few powerful figures have given gay and lesbian people the confidence that they needed to stop lying to and about themselves.
People told Harvey Milk that no openly gay man could ever win political office. Fortunately, he ignored their advice. And after Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the world, thousands of astonished people wrote to Milk thanking him for finally giving them a chance to emerge from the shadows of mankind and to join the human race.
The new amazing biographical motion picture, Milk, pays homage to Harvey Milk. The film is directed by the Oscar-winning Gus Van Sant, who also previously directed My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting. Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk, with James Franco playing his life partner, Scott Smith, and Josh Brolin as Dan White, Milk's eventual killer. The new film about Harvey Milk is being described as big, brash, bold and already looking as though it could be a major contender in the motion picture awards season.
If this first trailer is anything to go by, Gus Van Sant's Milk is going to be a big movie that takes on big issues in contemporary American life.
This detailed article presents biographic notes about the life and times of Harvey Milk, a number of photographs from the film, and the official HD trailer of Gus Van Sant's stunning biopic, “Milk.”To be young and gay or lesbian in the 1970s was to anticipate that your life would be... more
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Directed by Gus Van Sant, "Milk", will star Sean Penn and follow the life of Gay icon Harvey Milk. Directed by Gus Van Sant, "Milk", will star Sean Penn and follow the life of... more
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