12-05-2019, 12:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2019, 12:28 PM by TM2YC. Edited 2 times in total.)
(12-04-2019, 04:00 PM)mnkykungfu Wrote: Woah, TM2YC, those are a couple of really interesting finds! Cheers!
Side note, David Harbour is great, but he's a weird guy who made a lot of weird film choices for a long time before Stranger Things. I feel like he needs stronger management because he's being given enough rope to hang his career right now just when he was getting "hot"...
I was thinking the same thing. Doing oddball projects, or taking career left turns is great... as long as they succeed (sometimes).
He was doing a tour of his flat on youtube the other week...
...and has a dig at himself at 04.00 while discussing a massive He-Man poster
. He's a cool guy.Cruising (1980)
Al Pacino stars in William Friedkin's controversial 1980 film about a straight Cop going undercover in New York's Leather/S&M scene to catch a serial-killer. It's an American "Giallo", complete with the trademark mysterious, creepy voiced, black clad, knife wielding slasher hidden behind Aviator shades, who we are invited to theorize could be practically anybody in the cast. Paul Sorvino has never been better as the police captain who recruits and handles Pacino. The grinding guitar music by artists like Jack Nitzsche and Willy DeVille is amazing and features on some Tarantino soundtracks. Also Tarantino's famous "Gimp" scene from 'Pulp Fiction' has this film all over it. Since this was filmed one year after 'The Warriors' and on similar grimy looking, wet New York streets, I'm going to imagine Friedkin's leather/denim boys are an extra uniormed gang in the "WCU".
Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)
Co-Directors James Franco and Travis Mathews recreate/re-imagine 40-minutes of more explicit material deleted from William Friedkin's 'Crusing'... or rather we see them in the process of attempting it. The main actor is vexed by the idea of pretending to be Al Pacino pretending to be gay, or possibly he is just pretending to be vexed about pretending to be pretending. The rest of the cast are shown being troubled by the possibility they are not in a Franco art-film with sex in it but a piece of pornography, it's not about the content but the intentions of the Directors. Mathews is shown doing the actual Directing, Franco mostly stands to the side grinning, or trying to explain the bizarre project to his confused cast. I'm unsure if it's entirely, or just partially fiction, it's all very meta but it's a thought provoking companion piece to the 1980 film. Isn't being an undercover Cop, a bit like being an actor?
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