Wednesday | September 21, 2005 7:00 pm

The Celluloid Closet

Screening on Film

Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
France/UK/Germany/US, 1996, 35mm, color and b&w, 102 min.

Based on Vito Russo's pioneering history, The Celluloid Closet is a sexy, funny, infuriating, and instructive overview of one hundred years of largely inadequate depictions of homosexuals in Hollywood movies. Clips from 120 films are lucidly and wittily presented, accompanied by sometimes sardonic and often movingly personal commentary from sympathetic Hollywood insiders and skeptical gay spectators.

September 21 – December 14, 2005

LGBT Film Series

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy