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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
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, THE CELLULOID CLOSET does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of...
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.
- (7.5K)
- Documentary, History
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- 1996-03-15
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.
A film that explores the portrayal and representation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Hollywood movies. It covers the themes of secrecy, demonization, AIDS and acceptance, with interviews, clips and analysis.
- (34)
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- R
- Antonio Banderas
Mar 21, 2017 · The acclaimed documentary based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking book, The Celluloid Closet explores the hidden subtext of more than 100 Hollywood movies -...
- 2 min
- 12.3K
- Telling Pictures
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.
