Harvey Milk Francisco had no idea. It was just a really brief, provincial, localized current events story that the mayor and a city council member in San Francisco were killed. It didn't have much reverberation." Milk's life has been the subject of a musical theater production; an eponymous opera; a cantata; a children's picture book; a French-language historical novel for young-adult readers; and the biopic "Milk", released in 2008 after 15 years in the making. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, and won two Academy Awards for Best
Milk (film) intended to show a view of the San Francisco Opera House from the redesign of White's office. Filming finished March 2008. The film offers special thanks to "The Times of Harvey Milk" for "its enormous contribution to the making of this movie" and its producer, Rob Epstein. The music of the movie is composed by Danny Elfman under the label Decca Records. Songs: Film score: In the month leading up to "Milk's" release, Focus Features kept the film out of all film festivals and restricted media screenings, seeking to briefly avoid word-of-mouth and the partisanship it could generate. "Milk" premiered