But at times, listening to the narration is like being in the company of adolescents who can find sexual innuendo anywhere. Yet as Rappaport observes through Butler, the old films are rich with relationships, dialogue, glances and other bits of action susceptible to interpretation as being freighted with homosexuality. Society at large preferred that homosexuality remain hidden, so did its films. With a narration by Dan Butler (described in the publicity materials as an outspokenly gay actor), who plays the womanizer on the hit sitcom "Frasier," Rappaport's film makes the unsurprising point that at a time when American Written, directed and edited by Mark Rappaport, "The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender" is another of the so-called cinematic essays by the filmmaker, whose previous works include "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" (1992)Īnd "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" (1995). Treatment of homosexuality during its golden age, from the 1930s to the '60s.
Mages and opinions abound in "The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender," but genuine insight and reportorial curiosity are in short supply in this film about Hollywood's
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