The Times of Harvey Milk

The Times of Harvey Milk
Film poster
Directed by	Rob Epstein
Produced by	Richard Schmiechen Rob Epstein Gregory W. Bex
Written by	Rob Epstein Carter Wilson Judith Coburn
Starring	See Cast
Narrated by	Harvey Fierstein
Music by	Mark Isham
Cinematography	Frances Reid
Edited by	Rob Epstein Deborah Hoffmann
Distributed by	New Yorker Films
Release dates	October 26, 1984 (1984-10-26)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$29,802

The Times of Harvey Milk is a 1984 American documentary film that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival,^[1] and then on November 1, 1984 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.^[2]^[3] The film was directed by Rob Epstein, produced by Richard Schmiechen, and narrated by Harvey Fierstein, with an original score by Mark Isham.

In 2012, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.^[4]

Plot

The Times of Harvey Milk documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor. The film documents Milk's rise from a neighborhood activist to a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination in November 1978 at San Francisco's city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath.

Participants

Harvey Fierstein (narrator)
Anne Kronenberg
Tom Ammiano
Sally Gearhart
Allan Baird, Teamsters Union leader

Archive footage

Featured people

The film was produced after Milk's death using original interviews, exclusive documentary footage, news reports, and archival footage, so that Milk is credited as the lead (posthumously). Other politicians including San Francisco mayor George Moscone (who was assassinated with Milk), and Moscone's successor and now United States Senator Dianne Feinstein appear in archival footage. The movie opens with a tearful Feinstein delivering her announcement to the media that Moscone and Milk had been assassinated by Dan White.

Also featured in the film is schoolteacher Tom Ammiano, who would go on to be a member of the California State Assembly.

Awards and honors

The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1984,^[5] and was awarded Special Jury Prize at the first Sundance Film Festival, among other awards.^[6]

Home media

A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in March 2011. The release includes audio commentary featuring director Rob Epstein, coeditor Deborah Hoffmann, and photographer Daniel Nicoletta, interview clips not used in the film, a new interview with documentary filmmaker Jon Else, a new program about The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Sant’s 2008 film, Milk, featuring Epstein, Van Sant, actor James Franco, and Milk friends Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Nicoletta, rare collection of audio and video recordings of Milk, excerpts from Epstein’s research tapes, featuring Milk partner Scott Smith, footage from the film’s Castro Theatre premiere and the 1984 Academy Awards, panel discussion on Supervisor Dan White’s trial, and excerpts from the 25th anniversary commemoration of Milk’s and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations.

References

↑ "Project History page at". Tellingpictures.com. 1978-05-21. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
↑ "The Times of Harvey Milk". The Times of Harvey Milk. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
↑ "Telling Pictures". Telling Pictures. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
↑ "National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation " Los Angeles Times (December 19, 2012)
↑ "NY Times: The Times of Harvey Milk". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
↑ "IMDb: The Times of Harvey Milk". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-11-16.

External links

Works by Rob Epstein

Solo	The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Where Are We? Our Trip Through America (1989) An Evening with Eddie Gomez (2005)

Collaborations	Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977, with Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver) The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival (1986, with Peter Adair) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989, with Jeffrey Friedman) The Celluloid Closet (1995, with Jeffrey Friedman) Paragraph 175 (2000, with Jeffrey Friedman) Underground Zero (segment "Isaiah's Rap"; 2002, with Jeffrey Friedman) Howl (2010, with Jeffrey Friedman) Lovelace (2013, with Jeffrey Friedman)

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

1942–1975	The Battle of Midway / Kokoda Front Line! / Moscow Strikes Back / Prelude to War (1942) Desert Victory (1943) The Fighting Lady (1944) The True Glory (1945) None given (1946) Design for Death (1947) The Secret Land (1948) Daybreak in Udi (1949) The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) Kon-Tiki (1951) The Sea Around Us (1952) The Living Desert (1953) The Vanishing Prairie (1954) Helen Keller in Her Story (1955) The Silent World (1956) Albert Schweitzer (1957) White Wilderness (1958) Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959) The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960) Sky Above and Mud Beneath (1961) Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962) Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) World Without Sun (1964) The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) The War Game (1966) The Anderson Platoon (1967) Journey into Self (1968) Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life (1969) Woodstock (1970) The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) Marjoe (1972) The Great American Cowboy (1973) Hearts and Minds (1974) The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)

1976–2000	Harlan County, USA (1976) Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977) Scared Straight! (1978) Best Boy (1979) From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980) Genocide (1981) Just Another Missing Kid (1982) He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983) The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Broken Rainbow (1985) Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got / Down and Out in America (1986) The Ten-Year Lunch (1987) Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) American Dream (1990) In the Shadow of the Stars (1991) The Panama Deception (1992) I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993) Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) Anne Frank Remembered (1995) When We Were Kings (1996) The Long Way Home (1997) The Last Days (1998) One Day in September (1999) Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)

2001–present	Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Born into Brothels (2004) March of the Penguins (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Cove (2009) Inside Job (2010) Undefeated (2011) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) Citizenfour‎ (2014) Amy (2015)

Harvey Milk

Career	George W. Hewlett High School USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) Bache & Company Castro Street Fair Harvey Milk Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Democratic Club Castro Camera 1977 Board of Supervisors election (District 5)

Assassination	Moscone–Milk assassinations Dan White Twinkie defense White Night riots

Media and legacy	The Mayor of Castro Street (1982) The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Milk (2008) Harvey Milk Day Harvey Milk Foundation Harvey Milk High School USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206)

Related individuals	Dianne Feinstein Cleve Jones Jim Jones Anne Kronenberg Stuart Milk George Moscone Nicole Murray-Ramirez Daniel Nicoletta Frank M. Robinson Craig Rodwell Oliver Sipple Scott Smith

See also	Castro District, San Francisco Firsts in LGBT history Peoples Temple

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