The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)

This film provides a tour of what director Mark Rappaport feels is gay subtext showered throughout classic Hollywood films. I’ve long wanted to watch the much lauded Celluloid Closet which highlights the history of LGBT representation in movies, but not having a copy of that film available to me, I thought this might suffice as a backup of sorts. Unfortunately that’s not quite the case as this doesn’t elevate much beyond the type of opinion essay that’s easily found on YouTube. It’s repetitive and very narrow in scope. At times it offers a bit of campy fun, but it just as easily turned into long pieces where all I could do is roll my eyes at the stretches being suggested.