Deadline… “Kinks are eroticized fears,” says author Dan Savage in this fascinating documentary, which takes a brutal murder as its starting point and goes on to paint a portrait of pre-Aids New York, with the filming of William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) as its …
Category: William Friedkin
Variety… The legacy of William Friedkin’s 1980 erotic thriller “Cruising” is a complex one. A film long vehemently denounced by the queer community it purported to represent, and more recently reclaimed as a rare mainstream portrait of a vanished social scene, …