Cruising

Either you stand with the gay organizers contemporary to this William Friedkin fever dream in calling it an affront or you love watching Al Pacino sweat his way through a leather bar while stealing piss kink valor via a misplaced back-pocket hanky. Hard to imagine anyone with a middle-of-the-gay-bar opinion on this 1980 thriller, where Pacino plays a cop undercover in New York’s leather scene chasing a killer who’s been offing homosexuals. This presentation of Seventies NYC and all its sweet sweet dank as portrayed through Friedkin’s freaky film lens comes courtesy of local VCR cleaners Double Scorpio alongside your friendly neighborhood cinema sickos Hyperreal. – James Scott