Documents the history of gays and lesbians in Hollywood films.
A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?
Lesli Klainberg
Director
Lisa Ades
Director
B. Ruby Rich
Self
John Waters
Self
Jane Lynch
Self
Alan Cumming
Self
Heather Matarazzo
Self
Todd Haynes
Self
Christine Vachon
Self
John Cameron Mitchell
Self
Rose Troche
Self
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Welcome to Chechnya69%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Celluloid Closet72%
Disclosure78%
Heart of a Dog65%
Cameraperson67%
American Teen63%
Miss Representation69%
The Last Repair Shop74%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds74%
28 Up75%
This Changes Everything62%
Maidentrip70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Directed by John Ford70%
Public Speaking70%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream77%
Love, Marilyn66%
