On October 28, 2008, one week before the US Presidential Election and three decades following the rise and assassination of Harvey Milk, the Gus Van Sant-directed biopic of San Francisco's first openly gay, democratically elected politician premiered at the historic Castro Theater, just a few doors from where Milk had owned a camera shop. The film's cast and crew and many of the original activists who had worked with Milk during his short but crucial term as Supervisor of District 5 walked the red carpet, amid signs reading "No on Prop 8" (the proposition seeking to ban same-sex marriage in
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So you think you know music documentaries? Welcome to the inventive works of Larry Weinstein, a wonderfully quirky filmmaker, whose career has been spent documenting the lives and works of composers Kurt Weill, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ravel, Shostakovich, Weinzweig, Mozart and many more. But not in the normal way. A doctor wearing his lab coat is sitting behind a desk in a nicely appointed 1930s-style office. You expect to hear a formal prognosis and you do--sung in the beautiful deep voice of an opera singer. The patient, Maurice Ravel, is diagnosed by his singing neurosurgeon with "aphasia or
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