A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
- Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys
- 7 wins & 9 nominations total
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
- Self
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaActor Michael Ontkean not only declined to be interviewed for the documentary but also attempted to prevent clips from his film Making Love (1982) from being shown in it. He was unsuccessful.
- Quotes
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.
- ConnectionsEdited into Rescued from the Closet (2001)
- SoundtracksAdvise and Consent (Main Theme)
Written by Jerry Fielding
Performed by Frank Sinatra (uncredited)
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Inc.
An incredible piece of cinematic history shown in the film is the (now restored) "oysters and snails" scene in "Sparticus", where Marcus Licinius (Sir Laurence Olivier) tries to seduce his slave Antonius (Tony Curtis) in the bath.
This documentary changed the way I look at cinema, and now I often find myself seeking for the "hidden messages" in the characterization ("Calamity Jane", "The Maltese Falcon", "Johnny Guitar", "Rebel Without A Cause", "Ben Hur"...I can never see the scene where Judah and Mesalla drink that wine and glance into each other's eyes the same way again!). My only complaint is that the film does not mention the 1919 German silent film "Anders als die Anderen" ("Different From the Others"), one of the first to seriously deal with homosexuality.
Marvelous film! (To the film-makers: k.d. lang singing "(Once I Had A) Secret Love" at the end is a crowning touch!)
- Baroque
- Jan 7, 2001
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- Also known as
- Sakincali Film Dolabi
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,400,591
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $95,047
- Mar 17, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $1,400,591
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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