What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein ("The Times of Harvey Milk" and "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") and Jeffrey Friedman assemble 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. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.
Before Stonewall
1984
6
Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema
2016
0
Sweetheart Dancers
2019
9
Olly Alexander: Growing Up Gay
2017
6
Outrage
2009
6
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
2007
9
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
7
Un autre monde
2011
3
Paris Is Burning
1991
8
The Transformation
1996
0
The Baby Formula
2008
3
Disney: a través del espejo
2010
10
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
0
Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras
1997
6
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
7
Viola di Mare
2009
6
Party Monster: The Shockumentary
1998
6
Die Dohnal
2020
10
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
6
نصفُ حياة
2017
4