Movie
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-03-15
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ZDF, ARTE, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, HBO, Telling Pictures, Channel 4 Television
- Country
- France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Lily Tomlin as Narrator (voice)
- Tony Curtis as Self
- Susan Sarandon as Self
- Gore Vidal as Self
- Whoopi Goldberg as Self
- Antonio Fargas as Self
- Shirley MacLaine as Self
- John Schlesinger as Self
- Armistead Maupin as Self
- Arthur Laurents as Self
- Tom Hanks as Self
- Farley Granger as Self
Crew
- Rob Epstein - Director
- Jeffrey Friedman - Director
- Armistead Maupin - Writer
- Rob Epstein - Story
- Jeffrey Friedman - Story
- Sharon Wood - Story
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