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The Celluloid Closet is a 1996 American documentary film directed and co-written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and executive produced by Howard Rosenman. The film is based on Vito Russo's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, and on lecture and film
Mar 15, 1996 · The Celluloid Closet: Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. With Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents. A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Apr 26, 1996 · You ever had a Swiss watch?” “The Celluloid Closet” is inspired by a 1981 book by Vito Russo, who wrote as a gay man who found he had to look in the shadows and subtexts of movies to find the homosexual characters who were surely there.
Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of gay men and women on the silver screen. 627 IMDb 7.8 1 h 41 min 1996. X-Ray HDR UHD R. Documentary · Historical · Cerebral · Sophisticated. Available to rent or buy.
The Celluloid Closet takes a thought-provoking look at the decades of omission and misrepresentation endured by the gay community in mainstream cinema. Read Critics Reviews
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The Celluloid Closet. 1996 · 1 hr 42 min. R. Documentary · LGBT. Featuring interviews with Hollywood luminaries, this film examines depictions of LGBTQ characters on the silver screen from the silent era onward. Subtitles: English. Starring: Lily Tomlin Tom Hanks Whoopi Goldberg Susan Sarandon Harvey Fierstein Tony Curtis Shirley MacLaine.
The Celluloid Closet. Summaries. A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
May 29, 2001 · "The Celluloid Closet" goes all the way back to the birth of cinema, to an experimental Thomas Edison short of two men dancing, to trace the odd, funny, sad and disgraceful history of homosexual iconography on film.
Feb 8, 2010 · Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this acclaimed documentary takes its name from Vito Russo's groundbreaking book. The filmmakers examine the subtext of more than 100 Hollywood...
THE CELLULOID CLOSET explodes sexual myths and explores how our attitudes about homosexuality and sex roles have evolved through the century.
