Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders Review: Inside the Controversies of a Polarizing Queer Thriller
Director Jeffrey Schwarz tackles the intense controversy surrounding William Friedkin’s 1980 film Cruising in his new Tribeca Festival documentary, Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders. The film explores the real-life Manhattan homicides that inspired the gritty thriller, the massive LGBTQ+ activist protests during production, and the movie’s complex, enduring legacy within queer cinema and post-Stonewall social history. … Read more