Cruising starring Al Pacino tonight at the Northwest Film ForumThree Dollar Bill Cinema, producers for the annual Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, present “I Love the Nightlife” Queer Thursdays Film Series in April. Every Thursday from April 3rd through April 24th they will present special gay interest classic at The Northwest Film Forum located at 1515 12th Ave at 7 pm.
Tonight’s movie is Cruising (1980)
Sexual thriller with Al Pacino as a young cop who must go undercover as a gay ‘cruiser’ in New York City. There’s a homicidal homophobe on the streets, brutally killing gay men, and it’s up to Pacino to stop him. Shot on location in several gay bars of the era.
This movie is credited with exposing homophobia, however, the overt attempt to make the viewers uneasy and disturbed with graphic scenes from S&M gay leather bars could be considered homophobic in itself. You know about this classic Al Pacino movie. Tonight is the time to see the movie that is “controversial with gay and straight audiences alike.”
Tickets are $10 and more info is available at www.seattlequeerfilm.org/nightlife.
Here is the infamous scene of Al Pacino getting slapped:
