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Milk

June 2024

  • ‘A time of tremendous overreach’ … Sean Penn.

    Sean Penn says ‘timid and artless policy toward the human imagination’ means he can no longer play gay roles

    In an interview the actor blamed cultural climate on casting issues as well as reflecting on his relationship with Madonna

February 2024

  • Dustin Lance Black in LA.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I could easily have become bitter’: Dustin Lance Black on love, violence and losing his faith

    As a child, he lived in fear of his stepfather and watched the abusive men in his church defend one another. The Oscar-winning screenwriter discusses the role of religion in his new TV drama, life with his husband Tom Daley – and why the UK government owes him an apology

May 2018

  • Sean Penn

    Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’

    The actor turned author speaks his mind about critics, ‘arrogant’ aid work, the ‘mania-led’ #MeToo movement, and why his ex-wives find him boring

June 2017

  • Anne Kronenberg driving newly elected Supervisor Harvey Milk in the SFLGBT Pride parade, 1978_06

    LGBT: San Francisco – the culture of the Castro, in pictures

    Photographer Daniel Nicoletta documented Harvey Milk’s rise to office 40 years ago. In the aftermath of his assassination, he continued to capture the queer community as it survived and thrived

January 2017

  • L-R Gus Van Sant, Dustin Lance Black and James Franco at a Guardian interview at the NFT.

    Dustin Lance Black: I have no respect for actors who hide their sexuality

    Oscar-winner says Hollywood agents, rather than studios, should take the most blame for ‘stunting stars’ ability to be honest’ about their personal lives

February 2015

  • James Franco, left, with The Interview co-star Seth Rogen.

    Five best moments
    James Franco: five best moments

    Franco’s five most memorable roles to date – which would you choose?

February 2010

  • A Single Man - Colin Firth and Julianne Moore

    Film blog
    Why can't A Single Man be glad to be gay?

    David Cox: Director Tom Ford may deny it, but his dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood's seminal novel is a more profoundly gay film than Milk or Brokeback Mountain

January 2009

  • Sean Penn in Milk

    Milk

    We know how it ends, but that doesn't dilute the power of Sean Penn's performance as San Francisco's gay rights champion Harvey Milk, writes Philip French

  • Michael Sheen in Frost/Nixon and Sean Penn in Milk

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly: Frost/Nixon and Milk

    Jason Solomons delves into the ring of punchy movies about 1970s US politics to explore Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon and Gus van Sant's Milk. Plus, the latest reviews with Xan Brooks , including Tom Cruise in Valkyrie

    • Milk

    • 'My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you!'

    • Guardian interviews at the BFI
      Gus van Sant

December 2008

  • Sean Penn and Diego Luna in Milk

    New York critics back Gus Van Sant's Milk

  • Scene from Gus Van Sant's Milk

    Trailer park
    Film trailer: Milk

  • 'If I'm killed, let that bullet destroy every closet door'

  • Scene from Gus Van Sant's Milk

    John Patterson on film
    Why Gus van Sant's Milk is an important film

    John Patterson

November 2008

  • Protesters in California oppose Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage

    LA film festival director forced to resign over his opposition to same-sex marriage

    Richard Raddon, director of the LA film festival, has resigned over a donation he made to the campaign against same-sex marriage in California, 30 years to the week since Harvey Milk was assassinated

October 2008

  • Ken Kesey, pictured in 1997 with Further, a descendant of the famous vehicle that carried him and his Merry Pranksters on the trip immortalised in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    Van Sant on board for Acid Test

    Gus Van Sant will reunite with Milk writer Dustin Lance Black to make a film of Tom Wolfe's chronicle of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters

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