What is Outfest: Cruising about?

CRUISING, 1980, Warner Bros. Classics, 106 min. A bleakly chilling emotional travelogue of desperation, loneliness and spiritual hunger, Al Pacino stars as a naïve undercover cop who descends into the leather bar underworld of New York’s gay S&M scene to ferret out a serial killer. Widely condemned and misinterpreted on its initial release, CRUISING emerges today as one of director William Friedkin’s major works -- it succeeds as a police procedural, a horror film (there are scenes every bit as terrifying as THE EXORCIST) and a saga of one man’s confrontation with his disintegrating, “decent” self-image. With Paul Sorvino. Featuring a terrific score by composer Jack Nitzsche, with songs by The Germs.

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What is Outfest: Cruising about?: CRUISING, 1980, Warner Bros. Classics, 106 min. A bleakly chilling emotional travelogue of desperation, loneliness and spiritual hunger, Al Pacino stars as a naïve undercover cop who descends into the leather bar underworld of New York’s gay S&M scene to ferret out a serial killer. Widely condemned and misinterpreted on its initial release, CRUISING emerges today as one of director William Friedkin’s major works -- it succeeds as a police procedural, a horror film (there are scenes every bit as terrifying as THE EXORCIST) and a saga of one man’s confrontation with his disintegrating, “decent” self-image. With Paul Sorvino. Featuring a terrific score by composer Jack Nitzsche, with songs by The Germs.