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Jenni Olson recommended The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) in Movies (curated)

 
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
1984 | Biography, Documentary, History
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"""When it comes to documentaries, I am not a fan of current trends of reenactments and celebrities reading the words of unavailable subjects. Skip the elaborately constructed interstitial animations and give me old-school talking heads and archival footage with scripted, voice-of-God narration to help move me where you want me to go. The Times of Harvey Milk is what I’m talking about. Winner of the 1985 Oscar for Best Documentary, Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen’s powerful account of the assassination of San Francisco’s first openly gay elected official remains one of the most riveting documentaries ever made. It tells the story of San Francisco’s gay community and the fight for gay rights in the late 1970s through dynamic talking-head interviews, gripping archival footage, and devastating narration by Harvey Fierstein. It is also one of the very few gay-themed films to be selected for the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry."

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    Shoutrageous!

    Shoutrageous!

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    Shoutrageous is the fast-paced trivia game in which you need to know a thing or two about everything...

    Hello Johannesburg

    Hello Johannesburg

    Entertainment and Magazines & Newspapers

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    Hello Johannesburg was first published in April 1980 and is the LONGEST RUNNING RESTAURANT &...

    Stuart Edge

    Stuart Edge

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    A few years ago, Stuart Edge was cleaning porta-potties. As he cleaned, he dreamt of someday...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Three Identical Strangers (2018) in Movies

Dec 6, 2018 (Updated Dec 6, 2018)  
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
2018 | Documentary
8
8.3 (6 Ratings)
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Typically arresting so-weird-it-must-be-true documentary from the distributors of Blackfish, Dinosaur 13 and Life Animated. In 1980 a young man from New York arrives at college to be told he is the spitting image of someone who was there the year before: it turns out they were both adopted and share the same birthday - long lost brothers! The publicity turns up a third identical brother. The triplets instantly become minor celebrities on the NYC scene, but darker questions about their story soon surface...

A remarkable story, told by the surviving participants - lighter moments of uplifting human interest are soon subsumed by the stuff of an X-Files episode (well, close enough). You could very well argue that the film's narrative is rather selectively framed for maximum impact, and its attempts to address wider issues such as the question of nature vs nurture aren't really as effective as the story of the triplets. But still a gripping, thought-provoking, rather unsettling story that deserves to be better known.