The Celluloid Closet
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Assembles footage from over 120 films showing the changing face of cinema homosexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist cinema of the 1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators provide anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen.
Title:
The celluloid closet
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Publisher:
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Additional Contributors:
Imprint:
Culver City, Calif. : - Columbia TriStar Home Video
Edition:
Special ed
ISBN:
0767849000, 9780767849005
Language:
English
Credits:
Director of photography, Nancy Schreiber ; editors, Jeffrey Friedman, Arnold Glassman ; story, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Sharon Wood ; narration writer, Armistead Maupin ; music, Carter Burwell ; vocal performance, K.D. Lang ; co-producer, Michael Lumpkin ; producer/directors, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.
Performers:
Narrator, Lily Tomlin ; commentary, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Shirley MacLaine, Gore Vidal.
Notes:
DVD; Dolby Digital.
Closed-captioned.
Originally produced for television broadcast in 1996.
Based on the book by Vito Russo.
Notes on the doucumentary inserted in container.
Gay images -- From the very beginning -- Enter the sissy -- Morocco -- Queen Christina -- Cold-hearted villains -- The Maltese falcon -- Rope -- Behind bars -- Young man with a horn -- Tea and sympathy -- Rebel without a cause -- Ben-Hur -- Blurring the lines -- Gentlemen prefer blondes -- Tony Curtis -- Victim -- The children's hour -- Advise & consent -- Unhappy gay people -- The boys in the band -- Cabaret -- Cruising -- Making love -- Sunday, bloody Sunday -- Women who love each other -- Philadelphia.
Special features: Commentary with filmmakers Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Lily Tomlin, producer Howard Rosenman, editor Arnold Glassman, author Vito Russo ; bonus trailers ; collection of outtakes ; talent files ; interactive menus ; production notes including letters from Gore Vidal and Charlton Heston ; scene selections.
Closed-captioned.
Originally produced for television broadcast in 1996.
Based on the book by Vito Russo.
Notes on the doucumentary inserted in container.
Gay images -- From the very beginning -- Enter the sissy -- Morocco -- Queen Christina -- Cold-hearted villains -- The Maltese falcon -- Rope -- Behind bars -- Young man with a horn -- Tea and sympathy -- Rebel without a cause -- Ben-Hur -- Blurring the lines -- Gentlemen prefer blondes -- Tony Curtis -- Victim -- The children's hour -- Advise & consent -- Unhappy gay people -- The boys in the band -- Cabaret -- Cruising -- Making love -- Sunday, bloody Sunday -- Women who love each other -- Philadelphia.
Special features: Commentary with filmmakers Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Lily Tomlin, producer Howard Rosenman, editor Arnold Glassman, author Vito Russo ; bonus trailers ; collection of outtakes ; talent files ; interactive menus ; production notes including letters from Gore Vidal and Charlton Heston ; scene selections.
Statement of responsibility:
Sony Pictures Classics ; Home Box Office presents in association with Channel 4, ZDF/Arte, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment ; in association with Hugh M. Hefner, James C. Hormel, Steve Tisch ; a Telling Pictures production
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (101 min.) :,sd., col. ;,4 3/4 in.
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Add a CommentPart of the "Rob Epstein Collection" of four titles.
The history is quite fascinating, in particular during the period of censorship and how directors got around that (although I don't know that I would have seen between the lines). I had no idea that homosexuality had been portrayed in cinema from the very beginning.
Unlike what AtomicFez has said before me, I rather enjoyed this film and thought it to be a powerful historical film, particularly in the movie industry. I think schools across the world should start getting out of the "Dark Ages" and show films like this to educate people, especially younger minds.
Oddly, not as revelatory as I had expected. Granted, it's hardly a brand-new thing, so perhaps its 'shock value' has faded to the point of only raising an eyebrow now. Which is probably a good sign.