Cult Café
CRUISING
Saturday, June 8th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Cult Cafe
will now be held in the theater on the big screen!
Al Pacino is no stranger to the role
of tough, determined cops, as fans of Heat,
Serpico and Sea of Love will attest. But in Cruising,
he plunges into an even stormier sea as a New York policeman who infiltrates New
York’s gay S&M subculture to trap a serial killer preying on gay men. William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs (from his own
screenplay adaptation of Gerald Walker's novel) this still controversial, still
engrossing murder mystery. After the
brutal killings of a number of gay men, officer Steve Burns (Pacino),
matching the victim profile, is sent undercover to try and lure the killer out.
As he infiltrates the scene, he slowly comes to question his own identity and
becomes aware that the police force is aligned closer with the killer than the
community they’re supposed to protect. Pacino's performance as a man whose
identity and relationships are affected by his assignment remains its magnetic
centerpiece. (USA, 1980, 106 mins, R,
English | Dir. William Friedkin)
