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.