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The Celluloid Closet is a 1996 American documentary film directed and co-written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and executive produced by Howard Rosenman. The film is based on Vito Russo's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, and on lecture and film clip presentations he gave from 1972 to 1982. Russo had researched the history of how motion pictures, especially Hollywood films, had…
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While it is quite common that a perception of certain film can change over time, it is somewhat rare that it could happen because of another film. It is even rarer that perception of numerous films can be altered because of the single film. This achievement, which is for the obvious reason visible mostly to die-hard cinephiles, was made by *The Celluloid Closet*, 1955 documentary directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey…More
