The Times of Harvey Milk (#557) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: March 29, 2011
Purchase: Amazon

United States
1984
88 minutes
Color
1.33:1
English

A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Robert Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen, was as groundbreaking as its subject. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it’s a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk’s message of hope and equality to a wider audience. This exhilarating trove of original documentary material and archival footage is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to the legacy of a political visionary.

Disc Features:

1. Director-approved digital transfer, from the UCLA Film and Television Archive restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
2. Audio commentary featuring director Robert Epstein,coeditor Deborah Hoffmann, and photographer Daniel Nicoletta
3. Interview clips not used in the film
4. New interview with documentary filmmaker Jon Else
5. New program about The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Sant’s Milk, featuring Epstein, Van Sant, actor James Franco, and Milk friends Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Nicoletta
6. Rare collection of audio and video recordings of Milk
7. Excerpts from Epstein’s research tapes, featuring Milk partner Scott Smith
8. Footage from the film’s Castro Theatre premiere and the 1984 Academy Awards
9. Panel discussion on Supervisor Dan White’s trial
10. Excerpts from the twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of Milk’s and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations
11. Original theatrical trailer
12. PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic B. Ruby Rich, a tribute by Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk, and a piece on the film’s restoration by UCLA’s Ross Lipman

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