The Times of Harvey Milk
A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
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"I felt it was a powerful film as I saw it as a new arrival in SF in 1984. I didn't understand its power, though, until the documentary ended and the theather kept the lights very low. As I got up and started walking to the exit, I realized that most of the audience kept their seats. Very odd, since the credits and EVERYTHING had ended. The folks were just sitting and crying. Art has historically been used to let people rethink and understand the events of their times. (Think Shakespeare.) This film is that type of "art"...."
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The film opens with acting mayor Dianne Feinstein breaking the news to the assembled press outside City Hall that mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk had both been shot and killed by city supervisor Dan White. Gus Van Sant opens his biopic Milk (2008) with the exact same footage.
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A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.