Steven Petrow | Posted 11.17.2011
With his death, Harvey Milk taught us what it means to be gay. For my generation those lessons are secure, as is Milk's place in history.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
This year's gimmicky Benjamin Button cost $150 million, the superlative Milk cost just $15 million. Why not fund ten more Milk-type films and forego one Button?
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.25.2011
There was only one part of the Oscars everyone took seriously: Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's truly remarkable acceptance speech for Best Original Screenplay.
Steven Stamstad | Posted 05.25.2011
Milk understood the power of grassroots organizing, the power of the media and the power of his own charisma to raise awareness, shape public opinion and create action.
Jason Notte | Posted 05.25.2011
In keeping with the Academy's tradition of recognizing Indian contributions to the film industry, we pay tribute to Slumdog Millionaire by excluding it from our acting categories.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
For me, seeing Milk was a transformative experience because it restored my belief that Hollywood can make quality pictures that have broad appeal.
Nancy Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Was Van Sant afraid that audiences wouldn't be sympathetic if 70s-era gay activists were people who suffered, swore, fought back, and f*cked like they meant it? If the street kids actually looked like dirty, starving, broke-ass teen hustlers?
Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011
Milk 2008 128 minutes Rated R by Scott Mendelson Gus Van Sant's Milk is a fine character study and a solid look at a specific political movement an...
Marc Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011
What role should CEOS and big companies play when confronted with controversial issues? Ought they not take a stand on social issues, too?
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
Can both Sean Penn and Heath Ledger win? Can we have one Oscar for the Dark Side? and one for the, well, Good Side?
Josh Bolotsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Milk manages to balance the needs of two very different films in its running time. It is, first of all, a superb biopic, as well as a meditation on the responsibility activists have to the people.
Torie Osborn | Posted 05.25.2011
Yes, we've come a long way when we are fighting for the right to marry as opposed to defending the right of gay schoolteachers to work. But we could have beaten Prop 8 had we studied our own history.
Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 05.25.2011
We must fight for all Americans to be treated equally on every single level of their lives -- and this must include health care. We must fight every single day for this change.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
There she was, on the screen, in Milk. Anita Bryant, speaking out about "the homosexual agenda." Back in 1977, she was hugely controversial.
Tanene Allison | Posted 05.25.2011
The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.
Matt Budd | Posted 05.25.2011
Harvey Milk inspired hundreds of thousands of gay people in his lifetime and now with Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, he has the opportunity to reach millions more in death.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it. ... I asked Senator Feinstein, who became mayor...
Kip Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night was the world premiere of Milk at the Castro Theatre! For those who don't know, that's the new Gus Van Sant film about Harvey Milk, starring Sean Penn in the title role.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
One morning in 1978 a disgruntled San Francisco politician, Dan White, climbed through a City Hall window, assassinated Mayor George Moscone, then sho...
E! | Planet Gossip's Marc Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Sean Penn does more than pay lip service to his role as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant's movie about the slain gay rights activist. Just ask Mark Martin...
Towleroad | Posted 05.25.2011
Flickr user Troublepup shot these photos of Penn as Milk and James Franco as his lover Scott Smith while they were shooting a scene in the Castro. Via...
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011