Tim HISGHSTED (London Film Festival Catalogue, 1995) : <The Celluloid Closet> is both a history of lesbian and gay images, a study of how Hollywood has shaped our views of masculinity and femininity and a feast for cinephiles everywhere. Beginning at the birth of film and examining how filmmakers and actors have put gays on the screen to the present day, the film builds up a kaleidoscopic portrait from an early Edison clip of two man dancing together right through to <Philadelphia> and the recent New Queer Cinema.