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Name: The Celluloid Closet
Released: 2001-5-29
Cast: Armistead Maupin, Arthur Laurents, Susie Bright, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis

The Celluloid Closet

R
1h 42m
2001

97%

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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 the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar®-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt) and Jeffrey Friedman assemble 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. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.

Director:

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Cast:

Armistead Maupin, Arthur Laurents, Susie Bright, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Gore Vidal, Whoopi Goldberg, Antonio Banderas, Sharon Stone

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

97%

Critics Consensus: The Celluloid Closet takes a thought-provoking look at the decades of omission and misrepresentation endured by the gay community in mainstream cinema.

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

An excellent documentary.

I thought I would be bored by a series of film clips joined together by commentary, but it was light-hearted, flowing easily toward a hilarious conclusion.

Lively and absorbing.

This intelligent, fascinating film - based on the book by Vito Russo - is well worth a watch and is stuffed full of clips and contributions from stars, directors, screenwriters and academics.

May 28, 2020

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San Francisco Chronicle

Edward Guthmann

"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.

May 28, 2020

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