The Celluloid Closet
1995, 100 minutes, Rated M
"Portrayals of homosexuality were frowned upon until the 1960s, yet gays were everywhere in the movies...
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 homosexual characters who were surely there. His book is a compendium of visible and concealed gays in the movies, and now this documentary, which shows the scenes he could only describe, makes it clear Hollywood wanted it both ways: it benefited from the richness that gays added to films, but didn?t want to acknowledge their sexuality.
The movie narrated by Lily Tomlin, contains interviews with a lot of witnesses from the days when gays were in the Hollywood Closet..." Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
- Director:
- Rob Epstein [7], Jeffrey Friedman [1],
- Starring:
- Susan Sarandon [46], Sharon Stone [42], Lily Tomlin [14], Tony Curtis [24], Whoopi Goldberg [76], Tom Hanks [81], Shirley MacLaine [28], Antonio Banderas [34],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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