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Past Film/Video | Documentaries
Introduced by Todd Wiener, Motion Picture Curator, UCLA Film & Television Archive
35MM Print
$7 members and adults 55 and over$9 general public$5 students
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Archive expert Todd Wiener introduces a landmark documentary about political pioneer Harvey Milk and two short films featuring an incredible cast of queer characters, both real and imagined.
With original interviews, news reports, archival footage, and narration by actor Harvey Fierstein, The Times of Harvey Milk chronicles the political rise of the pioneering neighborhood activist. Milk became San Francisco’s first openly gay supervisor before he was tragically assassinated by a disgruntled political rival in 1978. (90 mins., 35mm) The film is preceded by the documentary short Coming Out, featuring interviews with participants of San Francisco’s first gay pride parade, the 1972 Gay Freedom Day celebration. (10 mins., DCP) Also featured is Always on Sunday, a gender-fluid take on Jules Dassin’s Never on Sunday (1960), created by the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC). An underground sensation in pre-Stonewall Southern California, the GGRC was known for organizing elaborate social events and producing campy satires of mainstream movies. (10 mins., DCP)
Before the screenings, Motion Picture Curator Todd Wiener from the UCLA Film & Television Archive will join us to discuss the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project.
See the complete Pioneers of Queer Cinema lineup.
IMAGE CAPTIONLeft to right: The Times of Harvey Milk, courtesy of Janus Films; Coming Out, courtesy of Frameline.
The Times of Harvey Milk is preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Telling Pictures; the James C. Hormel LBGTQIA Center; and Earle‐Tones Music, Inc. with funding provided by The Ahmanson Foundation in association with the Sundance Institute.
Coming Out is preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive on behalf of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project.
Always on Sunday is preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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Past Film/Video
The Times of Harvey Milk
