The Celluloid Closet (1996)
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Lily Tomlin
Narrator (voice)

Tony Curtis
Self

Susan Sarandon
Self

Gore Vidal
Self

Whoopi Goldberg
Self

Antonio Fargas
Self

Shirley MacLaine
Self

John Schlesinger
Self

Armistead Maupin
Self / Writer

Arthur Laurents
Self

Tom Hanks
Self

Farley Granger
Self

Quentin Crisp
Self

Harry Hamlin
Self

Sharon Stone
Self

Susie Bright
Self

Mart Crowley
Self

Jay Presson Allen
Self

Richard Dyer
Self

Jan Oxenberg
Self

Paul Rudnick
Self

Barry Sandler
Self

Ron Nyswaner
Self

Daniel Melnick
Self

Stewart Stern
Self

Harvey Fierstein
Self

Paul Newman
Self (archive footage)

James Dean
Self (archive footage)

Sal Mineo
Self (archive footage)

Natalie Wood
Self (archive footage)

Rob Epstein
Director / Producer / Story

Vito Russo
Author

Jeffrey Friedman
Director / Producer / Editor / Story

Michael Lumpkin
Co-Producer

Wendy Braitman
Associate Producer

Brad Grey
Executive Producer

Bernie Brillstein
Executive Producer

Scott Chambliss
Production Design

Caroline Spry
Producer

Nancy Schreiber
Director of Photography
Media.


Details.
Release DateJanuary 30, 1996
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
Box Office$1,400,591
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
media
hollywood
lgbt
Wiki.
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 clip presentations he gave from 1972 to 1982. Russo had researched the history of how motion pictures, especially Hollywood films, had portrayed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender characters.
The Celluloid Closet was given a limited release in select theatres, including the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in April 1996, and then shown on cable channel HBO as part of its series America Undercover.
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