What is Sorcerer / Cruising about?

Double Feature: Rare 35mm Screening! SORCERER, 1977, Paramount, 122 min. A rediscovered masterpiece, director William Friedkin’s visually awesome film reimagines Henri-Georges Clouzot’s WAGES OF FEAR as a discourse on man vs. nature. Small-time crook Roy Scheider goes from Brooklyn to the sweltering South American jungle, where he lands a job hauling nitroglycerine. CRUISING, 1980, Warner Bros., 106 min. Dir. William Friedkin. In this chilling look at loneliness and spiritual hunger, Al Pacino plays a naïve undercover cop who descends into the leather-bar underworld of New York’s gay S&M scene. Misinterpreted on its release, CRUISING emerges today as one of Friedkin’s major works - a terrific police procedural, horror film and saga of one man’s inability to face himself.

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What is Sorcerer / Cruising about?: Double Feature: Rare 35mm Screening! SORCERER, 1977, Paramount, 122 min. A rediscovered masterpiece, director William Friedkin’s visually awesome film reimagines Henri-Georges Clouzot’s WAGES OF FEAR as a discourse on man vs. nature. Small-time crook Roy Scheider goes from Brooklyn to the sweltering South American jungle, where he lands a job hauling nitroglycerine.

CRUISING, 1980, Warner Bros., 106 min. Dir. William Friedkin. In this chilling look at loneliness and spiritual hunger, Al Pacino plays a naïve undercover cop who descends into the leather-bar underworld of New York’s gay S&M scene. Misinterpreted on its release, CRUISING emerges today as one of Friedkin’s major works - a terrific police procedural, horror film and saga of one man’s inability to face himself.