When Steve and I were in Brussels we did one of our most favourite activites TWICE, which is go to the cinema.  The first was to see Milk at the UCG Brussels, which was pretty much like going to the UCG Anywhere only with French subtitles in the trailers and feature film.The film was quite good and gives a snapshot of the gay right’s movement.   I’d seen the 1984 Oscar-winning documentary of his life and the aftermath of his assassination, titled The Times of Harvey Milk, ages ago.   Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.The film chronicles Milk’s foray into city politics, and the various battles he waged in his Castro neighborhood as well as throughout the city, and political campaigns to limit the rights of gay people in 1977 and 1978 run by Anita Bryant and John Briggs. His romantic and political relationships are also addressed, as is his tenuous affiliation with troubled Supervisor Dan White.   Milk was brilliantly cast and gives a beautifully rendered flavor of the times, and an intimate vision of a man finding his place within a community and history.The next night we went to Flagey Studios to watch the Marx Brothers in  ‘A Night at the Opera’.  Now this is a seriously beautiful building which was partially listed in 1994 and was saved in June 1998 by a private Belgian group and has now embarked on a new life as a music and cinema complex.From the mission statement:Home of metroculture, meeting-point of paths that co-exist, clash, merge and mingle A space for surprises, sights and secrets. A variegated crowd, always different, sometimes familiar. Some sweep by for one performance, others are familiar with its seats. Authors, contemplators, denigrators. Inspiring and aspiring Metro Flagey. The rhythm is that of words, music, song, always in movement, always enthralling. Lover of the future, passionate about the past, cerebral, theatrical, humble and discreet...