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Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York's seedy underbelly in Cruising – available for the first time on Blu-ray in a brand new director-approved transfer.
New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city's underground bars. Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows – but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.
Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker's novel, Cruising was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino's haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece.
Special Features
- Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, supervised and approved by writer-director William Friedkin
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Newly remastered 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio supervised by William Friedkin
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Archival audio commentary by William Friedkin
- The History of Cruising – archival featurette looking at the film's origins and production
- Exorcising Cruising – archival featurette looking at the controversy surrounding the film and its enduring legacy
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Arrow Video
- 102 minutes
- William Friedkin
- 18
- Al Pacino
- Paul Sorvino
- Karen Allen
- Don Scardino
English SDH
- 1.85:1
- 1980
- English
- 1
- B
- Arrow Video
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Arrow Films
Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York's seedy underbelly in Cruising – available for the first time on Blu-ray in a brand new director-approved transfer.
New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city's underground bars. Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows – but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.
Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker's novel, Cruising was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino's haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece.
Special Features
- Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original camera negative, supervised and approved by writer-director William Friedkin
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Newly remastered 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio supervised by William Friedkin
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Archival audio commentary by William Friedkin
- The History of Cruising – archival featurette looking at the film's origins and production
- Exorcising Cruising – archival featurette looking at the controversy surrounding the film and its enduring legacy
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Arrow Video
- 102 minutes
- William Friedkin
- 18
- Al Pacino
- Paul Sorvino
- Karen Allen
- Don Scardino
English SDH
- 1.85:1
- 1980
- English
- 1
- B
- Arrow Video
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Clever Cruising
A stand up guy, a cop takes on an assignment like no other to go undercover on the NYC gay leather scene to catch a killer. Al Pacino is outstanding as the promotion hungry cop who runs head first into a seedy world of male lust that begins to get under his skin. The film perfectly captures the NYC I long for but is now hard to find; the seedy, scuzzy, dirty, sleazy NYC with all kinds of street characters hustling or looking to party. It's the same NYC we see in films like Maniac Cop, Mean Streets and Taxi Driver and boy is it filmic and atmospheric. Proper escapism to a different time here, with a plot that keeps you guessing and guessing. Pacino's character's journey here is a must watch. Considered shocking for the time it now looks all so tame, but the film never was great because of shock it was great because of top notch acting, writing and directing.
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