Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 10, 2009 under Premiere | Comments are off for this article
LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 09: Actor Clifton Collins Jr. arrives at the Overture Film’s screening of “Sunshine Cleaning” held at Pacific Theaters at The Grove on March 9, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Overture)
Overture Films’ Sunshine Cleaning premiered last night, Monday, March 9th in Los Angeles, California. The film is in select theaters March 13, 2009 and in theaters wide March 27, 2009.
LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 09: Actresses Emily Blunt (L) and Amy Adams arrive at the Overture Film’s screening of “Sunshine Cleaning” held at Pacific Theaters at The Grove on March 9, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Overture)
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 29, 2008 under Coming Soon | Comments are off for this article
Last night at the Castro Theatre, was the sold-out, one-night-only, world-premiere benefit screening of “Milk,” the hotly anticipated new film about the life, times and tragic death of controversial San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. The feature, directed by Gus Van Sant, opens in theaters Nov. 26. Sean Penn, plays the title role in a richly textured performance sure to evoke visceral memories of one of the first openly gay people to win major elective office in the country.
The two-hour movie follows Milk from New York to San Francisco, where he opened a camera shop on Castro Street and used his political savvy and a surging liberation ideology to win a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Less than a year after being elected, Milk was shot and killed in City Hall by the recently resigned supervisor Dan White, played by Josh Brolin in the film. White also assassinated Mayor George Moscone, who is played by Victor Garber, on that “Black Monday” in November 1978.
The film tells its story in fatefully somber, operatically enhanced flashback, with Milk speaking into a tape recorder in eerie anticipation of his possible assassination. Van Sant, whose films include “Good Will Hunting” and “My Own Private Idaho,” hews closely to Milk’s political career, which included several unsuccessful runs for supervisor. The film also depicts Milk’s love life and the burgeoning gay sensibility and rage ignited in San Francisco and beyond by this galvanic figure.
“Milk” joins a stream of previous works on the subject, including Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary, “The Times of Harvey Milk,” which premiered at the Castro Theatre in 1984. Milk’s life and the double assassination have been explored in numerous books, stage plays and an opera.
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