Cruising
Filmfest 2015
USA, Federal Republic of Germany 1980
Original version
(Original: English)
Director: William Friedkin
Section: Homage | Andy Warhol
Interesting as a mainstream contrast to Warhol's earlier Underground films. Plenty of scant black leather but that's about where the similarity ends. Whereas Warhol's films were made for a particular, limited audience and many were camp, Friedkin's picture went to territory where no Hollywood studio had ever tread with a graphic, sexploitative depiction of psychopathic gay S&M. The result at the time was a fiasco. Critics lambasted it. People magazine called it 'trash' and the gay community in Greenwich Village hit the barricades.
Cast: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino
Credits
Screenplay: William Friedkin
Original Material: Gerald Walker
Director of Photography: James Contner
Film Editor: Bud Smith
Composer: Jack Nitzsche
Production Designer: Bruce Weintraub
Costume Design: Robert deMora
Sound: Robert Glass, Robert Knudson
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Production Company: Lorimar
Co-Production Company: CiP - Europaische Treuhand AG
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures Germany
Director: William Friedkin
