{"id":33304,"date":"2023-07-20T06:40:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33304"},"modified":"2023-07-20T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:40:31","slug":"the-celluloid-closet-1996-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33304","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Celluloid Closet&#8221; (1996) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z072023zview_celluloidcloset.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Celluloid Closet <\/i><\/b>(1996)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Vito Russo, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Sharon Wood, Armistead Maupin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Lily Tomlin<\/strong>,<strong> Tony Curtis, Armistead Maupin, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Gore Vidal, Farley Granger <\/strong>and <strong>Shirley MacLaine<\/strong>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Celluloid Closet explores how the film industry, from the silent era to the mid-1990s dealt with members of the LGBT community on screen and behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s interesting to see how the on screen portrayal of this community has changed (or not) in the last almost 100 years.\u00a0 I also enjoyed the movie scenes that were so obvious if you knew what to look for, but went over the heads of most folks (including me).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><b><i>The Celluloid Closet <\/i><\/b>(1996) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z072023zview_celluloidcloset2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Celluloid Closet (1996) Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman Screenplay: Vito Russo, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Sharon Wood, Armistead Maupin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,61,17,72,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33334,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304\/revisions\/33334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}