RThe Celluloid Closet

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Play Time: 102 mins
Documentary, History
The Celluloid Closet

Overview:
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains 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.

Status: Released (1996-03-15)
Awards:Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys. 7 wins & 9 nominations total
BoxOffice:$1,400,591
Screen:Vito Russo, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Productions: ZDF, ARTE, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, HBO, Telling Pictures, Channel 4 Television
Production Countries: France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
Spoken Languages: Deutsch, English
The Celluloid Closet
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Ok, so perhaps some of the claims made in the narration about some of the stars featured here are a bit optimistically speculative, but it still manages to use some very well researched archive and the benefit of hindsight to portray a sort of “Hollywood Babylon” approach to a centur ....

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