The Celluloid Closet

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Writer: Vito Russo,Rob Epstein,Jeffrey Friedman

Countries of origin: France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Language: English

Release date: March 15, 1996

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes

Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1

Also known as: Sakincali Film Dolabi

The Celluloid Closet is a documentary directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman and starring Lily Tomlin and Bernard Schwartz .

The film deals with gay characters and the plight of actors and actresses.

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By Harmon 2022-11-14 18:28:26

A moment of trance - it's not that you look at Renji with rotten eyes, but there is a deep meaning in it

Celluloid Closet After
watching The first time I watched "Crazy Flowers", I always felt that the ending was slightly similar to "The Tiger and Leopard". The former two clasped their hands and flew into the grand canyon, the picture freezes, and the singing sounded; the latter two staggered out of the dilapidated dwelling, and faced the encirclement and suppression fire with their guns and counterattacks.
Many people believe that "The End of the World" implicitly describes the...
By August 2022-08-21 15:13:26

You may be weird, but I still like you

　　"Society is already very tolerant of homosexuality!"
　　"Everyone is equal, I don't think you are different."
　　"You are all normal people." "You people are all fine in contact!"
　　In this way, it comes out of everyone's mouth, naturally and fluently.
　　"Then how do you make love?"
　　"Are you all rich and good at...
By Wiley 2022-07-07 23:06:49

how could I be this way?

how could I be this way? No matter how open-minded you are, no matter how open-minded the world is, growing up in mainstream culture, you will panic when you find yourself in the slightest bit different from others. I may slowly accept myself but I will still ask why this is the case, how am I like this, why does this happen to me... Homosexuals are not sinners, maybe they will always be viewed differently, this It's not anyone's fault, and the world will never be fair, just like in the...
By Andy 2022-07-07 21:43:58

Movies mentioned in The Celluloid Closet

In the order mentioned in the photos:
Dixon's Experimental Sound Film (1894)
Dixon's Experimental Sound Film (1894)
By Jeffery 2022-07-07 19:15:25

Celluloid Closets: Hollywood's Look Back at Centennial Detours in Closets

Prefer another translation: Film Out of the Closet
Both storytelling and inspiring, a 1995 Hollywood review of the past hundred years of self-examination. Hollywood, as the cultural core and the all-encompassing mirror of civilization, reflects its responsibility in this film; a summary of the development process In place, not shy about trite mistakes, and an impressive tribute to the group;
The documentary shows the...

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By Pamela 2023-09-04 01:50:04

The helpless expression of homosexuality in the early films because of the taboo censorship seems quite interesting now. It turns out that the famous Ben-Hur also has such hints, and the screenwriter and director are good or bad, so I only tell two of this idea. one of the protagonists. There is also the implicit expression in the movie Spartacus that he likes to eat snails and oysters, so he kneels. I really want to watch Honghe Jie, the two protagonists in the scene of changing guns are so...
By Shannon 2023-06-30 17:02:35

It is strange that in China there is no such unforgettable change of times that can be traced back. Everything is only changing silently. Maybe we are used to being influenced by the outside society, and the change is from the outside to the inside, not from the inside to the outside. Susan Sarandon burst out laughing when she mentioned Tiger and Leopard, as if I really hoped to see the two...
By Ronny 2023-06-26 19:13:26

LGBT? History of the Screen. It turns out that in the 59th edition of "Ben-Hur", Misala had a lot of feelings for Ben-Hur. At that time, the screenwriter only told Stephen Boyd who played Misala, and Charlton Heston didn't know...
By Afton 2023-06-16 13:18:29

Presence needs no legitimizing; it only needs to...
By Sheila 2023-06-04 09:36:12

Very interesting documentary, looking for the social issues that the images of homosexuality extremely reflect in the history of American cinema. From "Ben-Hur" and "Rebel for No Reason" to "The End of the World" and "The Philadelphia Story", the writer, actor and producer come forward to explain the hidden, deleted, misunderstood and vilified homosexuals in the history of American cinema in the past century...

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Richard Dyer: Most expressions of homosexuality in most of movies are indirect. And what's interesting about that is of course that is what it was like to express homosexuality in life, that we could only express ourselves indirectly, just as people on the screen could only express themselves indirectly. And the sense in which the characters are in the closet, the movie is in the closet and we are in the closet.
Quentin Crisp: Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
Shirley MacLaine: None of us were really aware. We might have been forerunners, but we weren't really, because we didn't do the picture right. We were in the mindset of not understanding what we were basically doing. These days, there would be a tremendous outcry, as well there should be. Why would Martha break down and say, "Oh my god, what's wrong with me, I'm so polluted, I've ruined you." She would fight! She would fight for her budding preference. And when you look at it, to have Martha play that scene - and no one questioned it - what that meant, or what the alternatives could have been underneath the dialog, it's mind boggling. The profundity of this subject was not in the lexicon of our rehearsal period. Audrey and I never talked about this. Isn't that amazing? Truly amazing.

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