Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
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| Original title | The Celluloid Closet |
|---|---|
| Release date | Mar 15, 1996 |
| Runtime | 102 min |
| Content rating | R |
| Certification region | US |
| TMDb rating | 7.2 |
| Director | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman |
| Writers | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Sharon Wood, Armistead Maupin |
| Production | ZDF, ARTE, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, HBO, Telling Pictures, Channel 4 Television |
| Revenue | $1,400,591 |
| Language | en |
| Country | FR |
| IMDb | tt0112651 |
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Ok, so perhaps some of the claims made in the narration about some of the stars featured here are a bit optimistically speculative, but it still manages to use some very well researched archive and the benefit of hindsight to portray a sort of “Hollywood Babylon” approach to a century of gay Hollywood film-making. Starting way back, pre-code, with films from the likes of Cecil B. DeMille, it presents and engaging analysis of cinematic history that includes some of the talked-about regulars like Greta Garbo, Dame J...
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