The Times of Harvey Milk, Free Movie Screening
Date and Time
Monday Sep 8, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
4:45 PM Doors
5 PM Show
Fees/Admission
Free
Description
Cape Ann Pride screening of The Times of Harvey Milk
a documentary chronicling the life of Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay mayor.A truly great documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) has exceeded its original category with the passage of time. It is now an archive, a political case study, urban geography, melodrama, and cathartic expiation, and has inspired both an opera and a theatrical feature, Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008). The Times of Harvey Milk is a dazzling exemplar of that defunct technology 16 mm celluloid, the predigital choice for all alternative documentary and feature movements in America. With its astute roundup of news clips, archival materials, and original footage, and careful casting of veterans of the era for context, all orchestrated to capture the emotions of such signal events as the candlelight procession on the night of the assassinations and the White Night riots on the day of the verdicts, The Times of Harvey Milk has become a film that defies any expiration date. It is the rare documentary that speaks to our time, its own, and the intervening years with equal fluency.
