OK, so maybe you’ve heard the buzz about the new Gus Van Sant movie “Milk” starring Sean Penn and James Franco.  The NY Times called it the “best live-action mainstream American movie” of the year.  Apparently, they really liked that animated dog movie Bolt.

Question is, if it’s so hot—and there’s rumors that it might take Best Picture—why isn’t it in Bingo yet?

Probably because the topic has shoved it into that weird grey area where wanna-be mainstream movie meets art flick.  Milk is about one of the first openly gay politicians to be elected to a major office in the US—as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.  A year later, he was murdered alongside the mayor by a guy who claimed he did it because he ate too many Twinkies the night before.  Seriously.

A friend of mine did a little digging and found out that Regal (corporate) doesn’t plan to put it in Bingo because the release isn’t wide enough.  Then he called Focus Features, who told him it’s coming to Ithaca and Syracuse this Friday.

But I did a little digging myself and talked to the folks over at the Art Mission Theater who said that “we are trying very very hard” to show the film in town.  We’ll see what happens.