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Mood:
- CleverContemplativeWittyThought Provoking
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Plot:
- Gays and LesbiansShowbizInjusticeArtists and ShowbizGenderSocietyComing OutLife is a Bitch
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Genres:
- IndependentDocumentaryHistorical
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedSundance Festival Winner
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Style:
- Voice OverTalkyArchive Footage
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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- SeriousRealistic
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- Sexual ContentViolent Content
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The Celluloid Closet, 1995
English
France, UK, Germany, USA
Profile of The Celluloid Closet
The mood of The Celluloid Closet is clever, thought provoking, and witty. The plot centers around injustice, gays and lesbians, and showbiz. It is an independent, documentary, and historical movie. Stylistically, The Celluloid Closet archive footage, includes a voice over, and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is based on a book. The Celluloid Closet is known for being a Sundance Festival winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes sexual content and violent content.
Summary of The Celluloid Closet
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's documentary chronicles the way movies have portrayed homosexuals for the past 100 years and how these images, both positive and negative, have helped shape America's attitudes toward gays. Among the topics examined via interviews and film clips are the various gay stereotypes that recur onscreen, gay subtexts in such macho films as SPARTACUS and BEN-HUR, and how negative images of homosexuality created emotional conflict within the gay moviegoer. But the film also shows how the times have greatly changed, bringing more--and more realistic--gay characters to the silver screen. Interviewees include Susan Sarandon, Tony Curtis, Shirley MacLaine and Tom Hanks, among others. The film is based on the 1981 book by Vito Russo.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | France, UK, Germany, USA |
| Release date: | 30 January 1996 |
| Runtime: | 102 min |
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