Milk directed by Gus Van Sant
Saturday, December 13th, 2008- Title: Milk (IMDb)
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Screenwriter: Dustin Lance Black
- Director of Photography: Harris Savides
- Composer: Danny Elfman
- Producer(s): Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
- Released by: Focus Features
- Year of Release: 2008
- Duration: 128 minutes
Sean Penn in Milk
Milk was directed by Gus Van Sant, who also directed Elephant (2003) and Last Days (2005), the former suggestive of the Columbine High School shooting and the latter of the time before musician Kurt Cobain’s death. Milk tells the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected to office. He was elected as San Francisco City Supervisor in 1977.
Released not much more than a month after election day, when the country made strides forward with president-elect Barack Obama and a giant leap backwards with a ban on gay marriage in California and other states, the affect of Milk is all the more amplified. (more…)