The biggest problem with a lot of documentaries is that they can date themselves more fictional stories. This movie certainly suffers from being dated, and that's the largest mark against it. It would certainly be interesting to see an updated version, looking at how the portrayal of gays and lesbians has changed in the past fifteen years.

That being said, there's still some fascinating material here and there's some great interviews. Honestly, it's worth watching just to see Gore Vidal talk about Ben Hur, or Susan Sarandon discuss The Hunger. They're just two of the great personalities who discuss past work on screen.

Great documentary about queer people in cinema before they started to become normalized in any sort of way.

Ανθολόγιο. Πολύτιμο και συγκινητικό.
Και πολύ αστείο.

Um documentário revelador, divertido e surpreendente.
A revealing, entertaining and surprising documentary.

Fasintating

The biggest problem with a lot of documentaries is that they can date themselves more fictional stories. This movie certainly suffers from being dated, and that's the largest mark against it. It would certainly be interesting to see an updated version, looking at how the portrayal of gays and lesbians has changed in the past fifteen years.

That being said, there's still some fascinating material here and there's some great interviews. Honestly, it's worth watching just to see Gore Vidal talk about Ben Hur, or Susan Sarandon discuss The Hunger. They're just two of the great personalities who discuss past work on screen.

A bit too grave for my liking - musical scores feel especially manipulative and televisual in docs - but insightful in its exhibition of some pretty obscure films. Actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein is its most interesting interviewee, as his "masculine" looks and low-pitched rasp make his defense of "sissies" profoundly tender. Susie Bright and the recently deceased Gore Vidal are also eloquent; the latter's BEN-HUR anecdote is particularly hilarious.

A wonderful work of curation, which is often touching and sometimes revealing. (Ben Hur's a gay movie?!) It prompted me to add dozens of films to my LoveFilm list and held my interest despite being 100 minutes of talking heads. All the incredible film clips helped.

Watched this because it was regarded so highly on Spurlock's top 50 docs to see list. Yawn. Was there really so much to it that the industry was trying to cover up or are people over analyzing character relationships? I didn't even finish it.

I can see about doing a movie about homosexuals and homosexual characters in cinema, but I think I am tired of the people over using every single glance or touch as a “subtext” of gay relationships just so you can have “HOPE” for more gay characters. Yeah, there were some things that you learned like with Susan Sarandon’s two lesbianish roles, “Thelma and Louise” and “The Hunger”. But, sometimes the reach is just so far that all I could do was shake my head… Oh Brother!