The Celluloid Closet

For decades, Hollywood’s film factory has been depicting gays and lesbians as lunatics, perverts and murderers, or as suicidal people. This entertaining documentary with excerpts from over 100 films will sharpen your senses for stereotypes and offer new unexpected insights. A milestone of lesbian and gay film history, the film is based on Vito Russo’s book “The Celluloid Closet”. Pink Apple will also be showing the noteworthy new documentary “Vito” about Vito Russo’s life.

And by the way, the “Celluloid Closet” by Jeffrey Friedman *& Rob Epstein (“Howl”, “Paragraph 175”, “The Times of Harvey Milk”) was the opening film at the very first Pink Apple in Frauenfeld 15 years ago.