The Celluloid Closet (1995) (Documentary DVD5 NTSC Subs En Bg) torrent

THE CELLULOID CLOSET
France, UK, Germany, USA, 102 min.
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Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Screenplay: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Sharon Wood, Vito Russo (book).
Director of photography: Nancy Schreiber
Original Music: Carter Burwell
Cast (Himself): Tony Curtis, Whoopi Goldberg, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Tom Hanks, Farley Granger, Harry Hamlin, Gore Vidal, Armistead Maupin, Arthur Laurents, Susie Bright, John Schlesinger.
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Awards: Berlin International Film Festival (Best Documentary Film); GLAAD Media Awards, National Educational Media Network, USA (Gold Apple); Peabody Awards; Sundance Film Festival (Freedom of Expression Award)
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"The Celluloid Closet" is a history of the treatment of homosexuals and gay themes in the cinema from the silent days to 1995, but it is a very partial account, focusing almost exclusively on Hollywood. The strength of the film is a huge number of clips from a vast range of films which show that, after a fairly liberal early period, homophobia reigned supreme until the late 1960s, and still can be seen in mainstream movies today. One of the great gay clichés is the homosexual movie buff in love with the likes of Judy Garland, so it is ironic that so many gay people should turn to the Hollywood product for distraction, given how anti-gay that product was. Some of the industry people interviewed for the film boast of how the censors were outsmarted on occasion, for example Gore Vidal's account of how Charlton Heston was fooled into acting gay in "Ben Hur", but it was not until "Boys in the Band", the film of a successful stage play in 1970, that homosexuality broke through as a topic for candid treatment.
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Video : DVD-5
Audio : English (2.0 Dolby Stereo)
Subtitles : English, Bulgarian
Format : MPEG Video
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : NTSC
Menu : Yes
Credits : Yes
Runtime: : 102 min
BONUS: : DVD-Cover
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