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Original title: Celluloid Closet, The
Release Date
• USA: Mar 15, 1996
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 29, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country France, UK, Germany, USA
Production Companies
Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, Channel Four Films, Home Box Office (HBO), Sony Pictures Classics, Telling Pictures, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), arte
Studio Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, Channel 4, HBO, Reflective Image, Telling Pictures, ZDF
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• The Celluloid Closet (1995)
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Genre: Documentary, Gay/Lesbian, Society
Plot: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's documentary chronicles the way movies have portrayed homosexuals for the past 100 years and how these images, both positive and negative, have helped shape America's attitudes toward gays. Among the topics examined via interviews and film clips are the various gay stereotypes that recur onscreen, gay subtexts in such macho films as SPARTACUS and BEN-HUR, and how negative images of homosexuality created emotional conflict within the gay moviegoer. But the film also shows how the times have greatly changed, bringing more--and more realistic--gay characters to the silver screen. Interviewees include Susan Sarandon, Tony Curtis, Shirley MacLaine and Tom Hanks, among others. The film is based on the 1981 book by Vito Russo.
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Rob Epstein
The Times of Harvey Milk, Paragraph 175, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt | |
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| Rob Epstein
The Times of Harvey Milk, Paragraph 175, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt |
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| Cast |
Lily Tomlin
I Heart Huckabees, Orange County, Short Cuts |
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Some Like It Hot, Sweet Smell of Success, The Great Race |
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer, West Side Memories, The Needs of Kim Stanley | | |
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