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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/38096/full/38096/stellar-milk-double-bill-at-castro-theatre/ <br /><br /> <b>Stellar “Milk” double bill at Castro Theatre</b> <br /> Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | by andy altman-ohr <br /><br /><p><img alt="milk_2_475" height="300" src="/images/uploads/blog_art/0509/milk_2_475.jpg" style="float: left;" title="milk_2_475" width="210" /><br /><img alt="milk_penn_462" height="288" src="/images/uploads/blog_art/0509/milk_penn_462.jpg" title="milk_penn_462" width="192" /><br /><br />The movie “Milk” got a decent amount of play in the Jewish press when it released last year.<br /><br />I stayed all the way to the end of the final credits to see if the producers would give a nod to one of my favorite documentaries of all time, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/" target="_blank">“The Times and Life of Harvey Milk.”</a><br /><br />Much to my joy, they did!<br /><br />Since retitled “The Times of Harvey Milk,” the film was an amazing, gripping, heart-warming, eye-opener when I saw it in 1984, as a 20-year-old fresh out of the suburbs. Times were much different then, and I was overcome with emotion when I saw it, but I revisited it on DVD a year ago, and it’s still a brilliant, dramatic, extremely moving and enlightening portrait of Milk – a piece of filmmaking that I’d say is actually better than the 2008 movie, which won the Oscar for best actor and best screenplay.<br /><br />The documentary, narrated by Harvey Fierstein, was made by filmmakers Robert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen, along with editor Deborah Hoffman.<br /><br />Now to the main point: From Friday, May 22 through Thursday, May 28, the <a href="http://www.castrotheatre.com/" target="_blank">Castro Theatre</a> in San Francisco is going to be showing both “Milk” and “The Times of Harvey Milk” together on the same bill. The documentary screens nightly at 7 p.m. (with early shows at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday) and the Sean Penn version will show at 8:50 p.m. nightly (with 4:25 p.m. showings on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday). Note: there will be no screenings on Tuesday, May 26. <a href="http://www.castrotheatre.com/calendar.htm" target="_blank">Click here for the Castro's full calendar.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tellingpictures.com/films/hm/hm_rev.html" target="_blank">Click here for some more</a> complete reviews of “The Times of Harvey Milk.” They all glow, just like Harvey did.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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