trailer break: ‘Milk’

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Gus Van Sant’s biopic of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, starring Sean Penn, just got its first trailer:

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That is one fantastic trailer. It manages to be light and humorous and celebratory even though the story the film will tell will be intense and serious, which you could guess even if you knew nothing about Milk and were judging only by some of the images that flash by here. It tells me -- perhaps inaccurately; we’ll only know once we see the movie -- that the overall tone of the film, despite, ahem, the inevitable ending, is going to be hopeful and joyous, which is a movie I’d like to see. And it’s probably a movie that will have a far greater impact than the same story told more somberly.

Milk opens in limited release November 26.

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Plus, as an added bonus to absolutely nobody reading this except myself, about a dozen coworkers and friends of mine are extras in multiple scenes. (I live and work about 10 minutes from San Francisco's City Hall.)

This officially signals to me that what the pundits predicted after Brokeback is coming true: Gay is the new retarded. Look for a Best Actor nomination for Penn this year.

Not a knock against the film by any means, it looks great.

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Fri Sep 05 08, 2:58PM

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