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  • Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically
  • Life Inside Me (A)
  • Love Me Tender
  • Doin' It
  • Thirty Years with the Whip
  • Compulsion
  • Inside Amir
  • Peter Hujar's Day
  • Captive (The)
  • Constantinopoliad
  • Weapons
  • Follies
  • I Have Never Been on an Airplane
  • Nova 78'
  • Alexina B. Composing Lives
  • Long Road to the Director's Chair (The)
  • Griffin in Summer
  • Girls & Boys
  • Premiere (The)
  • Unforgivable
  • Wayward
  • Cutaways
  • My Sunnyside
  • Brigitte’s Planet B
  • How Far Does The Dark Go?
  • Brief History of the LGBT+ Press in Brazil (A)
  • Internal Comms
  • Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos
  • Mothers, Lovers and Others
  • Labyrinth of Lost Boys
  • Gunyo Cholo: The Dress
  • Days of August
  • Chica Quinqui
  • After the Hunt
  • Desire Lines
  • History of Two Warriors
  • Einfach machen - She-Punks von 1977 bis heute
  • Couture
  • Out Standing
  • History of Sound (The)

Celluloid Closet (The)

Country: United States, Language: English, 102 mins

  • Director: Rob Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman
  • Writer: Vito Russo; Rob Epstein
  • Producer: Wendy Braitman; Bernie Brillstein

CGiii Comment

Fascinating...but, dated and chronologically confusing.

Mad omissions...again, very USA-centric - according to this...Europe had very little input - wrong!

It definitely needs updating - worthwhile nonetheless.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A comprehensive documentary of the history of gays and lesbians in cinema, from negative to positive reflections of gay characters and the troubles of actors and actresses.

Cast & Characters

Lily Tomlin as Narrator;
Tony Curtis as Himself;
Susie Bright as Herself;
Arthur Laurents as Himself;
Armistead Maupin as Himself;
Whoopi Goldberg as Herself;
Jan Oxenberg as Herself;
Harvey Fierstein as Himself;
Quentin Crisp as Himself;
Richard Dyer as Himself;
Jay Presson Allen as Herself;
Mrs. Gustav Ketterer as Herself;
Gore Vidal as Himself;
Will H. Hays as Himself;
Farley Granger as Himself