Double Feature

Cruising

While our allotment of advance tickets has sold out online, some additional tickets will be available to purchase at the door on a first come, first served basis on the night of the show. Box office & doors open roughly one hour before the first film. For shows that have sold out online, in-person ticket purchases are limited to 2 tickets per person.

In William Friedkin’s intense and controversial thriller, NYPD officer Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is sent to work undercover in the S&M leather bars of the West Village to track down a serial killer targeting gay men. But descending deeper into the role takes a toll on his relationships and his damaged psyche as he witnesses the brutality of both the killer and the police towards the community.

“Viewed from almost three decades’ distance, Cruising now looks like a masterly work of psychological disorientation, guilty only of a certain insensitivity – in putting the most extreme imaginable example of gay sexual subculture into a mainstream film – but innocent of any homophobic intention. Pacino’s performance as the undercover cop who gets drawn into the leather underworld is extraordinary and sensitive, and the film’s frank depiction of the pre-AIDS night world of gay Manhattan remains shocking. No one would get away with it now, or even try.” – Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

Windows

Somebody loves Emily… too much! Talia Shire stars as a recently divorced New Yorker in famed cinematographer Gordon Willis’ sole directorial feature, the controversial thriller Windows. As Emily (Shire) begins to open up to her neighbor Andrea (Elizabeth Ashley), she’ll discover her new friend’s helpful façade could be a frightening mask that hides a dark obsession.  Featuring stellar cinematography by the director himself, plus a score by Ennio Morricone.