Release Date

12 Feb, 2006

Runtime

01:22: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Documents the history of gays and lesbians in Hollywood films.

A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?

Original Title

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

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Actors

B. Ruby Rich

John Waters

Jane Lynch

Alan Cumming

Heather Matarazzo

Todd Haynes

Christine Vachon

John Cameron Mitchell

Rose Troche

李安

Marga Gómez

Gus Van Sant

Guinevere Turner

Dan Bucatinsky

Angela Robinson

Jonathan Caouette

Jennie Livingston

Ash Christian

Nina Landey

Peter Paige

Jenni Olson

Crew

Lisa Ades

Lesli Klainberg

Rachel Reichman

Billy Porter

Ruben O'Malley

Lisa Ades

John Pirozzi

Lesli Klainberg

Ari Gold