De l'ombre à la lumière

Titre original : The Celluloid Closet

1995
R
1h 42m

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Marlene Dietrich, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in De l'ombre à la lumière (1995)

Un documentaire sur les différentes représentations des homosexuels sur les écrans hollywoodiens et les attitudes qui les sous-tendent tout au long de l'histoire du cinéma nord-américain.Un documentaire sur les différentes représentations des homosexuels sur les écrans hollywoodiens et les attitudes qui les sous-tendent tout au long de l'histoire du cinéma nord-américain.Un documentaire sur les différentes représentations des homosexuels sur les écrans hollywoodiens et les attitudes qui les sous-tendent tout au long de l'histoire du cinéma nord-américain.

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Nommé pour 5 prix Primetime Emmy
- 7 victoires et 9 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Actor Michael Ontkean not only declined to be interviewed for the documentary but also attempted to prevent clips from his film Une autre façon d'aimer (1982) from being shown in it. He was unsuccessful.

Citations
Quentin Crisp: Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

Connexions
Edited into Rescued from the Closet (2001)

Bandes originales
Advise and Consent (Main Theme)
Written by Jerry Fielding
Performed by Frank Sinatra (uncredited)
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Inc.

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10/10

Out of the closet and into the picture

"The Celluloid Closet" is a documentary that dares to go where others haven't gone before. Hollywood, that dream factory, has always been a magnet for the artistic gays and lesbians that have had a lot to endure and have never been recognized to the valuable contributions they have made to the medium.

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have compiled a comprehensible account of how homosexuals have been discriminated by the industry where they have been present since the early days of silent films. In fact, movies have always attracted homosexuals who, for the sake of being in the pictures, have gone to extremes in order to work in this form of entertainment.

We are given excellent background by a lot of people that explain the many intricacies these closeted individuals have endured while trying to have a career in the movies. Interviews with Arthur Laurents, Tony Curtis, Armistead Maupin, Susie Bright, Whoopie Goldberg, Jan Oxenburg, Jay Presson Allen, Gore Vidal and others, expand on the material we are watching. Lily Tomlin's narration is an asset.

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman deserve credit for their frank attempt to illustrate Hollywood's hypocritical treatment to the people who, in a way, have added to the prestige and to the artistic quality of the movies.