The docu throws out a swift, certain hook with a delightful title sequence of memorable gay and lesbian screen moments of both the intended and unintended kinds. Russo, who died in 1991, was one of the people with AIDS focused on in “Threads.” But Epstein and Friedman clearly are more concerned with objectively chronicling their subject than passionately crusading against it, and ultimately the film should benefit wholeheartedly from this in terms of its international profile on big and small screens.īasis for the film is Vito Russo’s landmark 1981 book of the same name, which analyzes how homo-sexuality has been portrayed onscreen since the beginning of the movies and the ways in which those portrayals overlapped with or mirrored society’s views. Some gay and lesbian audiences expecting a rabid tirade against Hollywood sterotying and misrepresentation may find the film to be less confrontational than they would have hoped.
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