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SUMMARY:Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
DESCRIPTION:Documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz (VITO\, I AM DIVINE) peels back the layers of controversy surrounding the making of CRUISING\, William Friedkin’s 1980 erotic thriller starring Al Pacino. Friedkin’s story of a serial killer targeting gay men in New York’s leather bars was drawn from the true-life brutal murder of Variety reporter Addison Verrill\, blurring the boundaries between cinematic fiction and real-life tragedy. In the summer of 1979\, as word traveled in the LGBTQ+ community that a movie was being filmed in the streets of the West Village that linked homosexuality and depravity\, all hell broke loose\, triggering fierce protests that at times shut-down or delayed production. Long denounced by the queer community\, now nearly 50 years later\, CRUISING is being revisited in a new and more complex light. Open Captions Available
LOCATION:Landmark Century Centre Cinema 2828 N Clark Chicago IL 60657
URL:https://chicago.gopride.com/calendar/event.cfm/id/295398/mineshaft-the-cruising-murders
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