The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet

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Release date 1995

Duration 102 min

Producer(s) Wendy Braitman, Bernie Brillstein, Michael Ehrenzweig...more

Director(s) Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman...more Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman...less

Writer(s) Vito Russo, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman...more

Cast Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright...more

Genre Documentary,

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Shirley MacLaine:
None of us were really aware. We might have been forerunners, but we weren't really, because we didn't do the picture right. We were in the mindset of not understanding what we were basically doing. These days, there would be a tremendous outcry, as well there should be. Why would Martha break down and say, "Oh my god, what's wrong with me, I'm so polluted, I've ruined you." She would fight! She would fight for her budding preference. And when you look at it, to have Martha play that scene - and no one questioned it - what that meant, or what the alternatives could have been underneath the dialog, it's mind boggling. The profundity of this subject was not in the lexicon of our rehearsal period. Audrey and I never talked about this. Isn't that amazing? Truly amazing.

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Richard Dyer:
Most expressions of homosexuality in most of movies are indirect. And what's interesting about that is of course that is what it was like to express homosexuality in life, that we could only express ourselves indirectly, just as people on the screen could only express themselves indirectly. And the sense in which the characters are in the closet, the movie is in the closet and we are in the closet.

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Arthur Laurents:
You must pay. You must suffer. If you're a woman who commits adultery, you're only put out in the storm. If you're a woman who has another woman you better go hang yourself. It's a question of degree and certainly if you're gay, you have to do real penance - die!

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Susan Sarandon:
You wouldn't have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve, I don't care what your sexual history to that point had been.

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Narrator:
Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gays and gay people what to think about themselves.

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