“The Times of Harvey Milk”, the Oscar winning 1984 documentary by Rob Epstein that tells story of San Francisco’s first openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk who was tragically assassinated in 1978, is now available on Hulu. This is a really amazing documentary and provides a great look into an important period in San Francisco’s history. It also makes a great companion piece to the recently released film “Milk” by Gus Van Sant.
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Gus Van Sant basically just reenacted this documentary. There’s about 10-15 scenes that he recreates or fleshes out and there’s another 10-15 scenes where he uses the exact same source material as the documentary, and all in the same order. And I’m not knocking that. Talk about being True to your source material
It’s a pretty amazing documentary about a very surreal story.
What’s amazing is how many people from this 24 year old documentary still dominate the local political landscape. My personal favorite is Dennis Richmond. He’s been like the black Clark Kent of Bay Area TV news reporting for the past 30+ years. You know that guy goes out and fights crime once he gets off from work. That’s why he finally retired from news casting – to focus on kicking ass fulltime.
Lots of great file footage of San Francisco is all of its goofy 1970s Boogie Nights glory. Dan White with his bowl haircut (Check it out! Same style as the busted Governor of Illinois. Creepy..) and Century 21 jacket. Check out the news guy that interviews Dan White on the streets. Yep. John Holmes had a job at 7 On Your Side for a while there. Not that many people know that.
It’s pretty amazing what Harvey Milk was able to accomplish without any cell phones, twitter, myspace, or blogs. Dude was a bad ass. He would go debate his opponents in enemy territory, red zip codes, Orange County. That’s why Prop 6 failed and why Prop 8 passed. We don’t have any more Harvey Milks on our team anymore.