Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Gay, lesbian, and transgender filmmakers, actors, and critics explore the history of queer cinema in this made-for-cable documentary. Eschewing any overarching narration, co-directors Lesli Klainberg and Lisa Ades illustrate archival footage and film clips with dozens of interviews. They also ...more

Cheery production values and an upbeat script lend this IFC documentary an aesthetic closer to a nostalgic VH1 celebration than to Vito Russo's seminal, still-haunting The Celluloid Closet. Yet Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema is a product of its times. Rather than an AIDS-era meditation on the power of representation, Fabulous! explores the explosion of gay images in millennial pop culture and traces it backward past Stonewall. Producer/directors Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg secured ...more