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Cruising the Movies
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Cruising the Movies is a new monthly podcast and screening series at IFC Center in New York from the creators of Ask Any Buddy. In each episode, Elizabeth Purchell and KJ Shepherd take a look at a different film from the fringes of queer cinema history. Through interviews, archival sources, and conversations with filmmakers, critics, and historians, this podcast and screening series will uncover how cinema is inextricable from queer history at large.
Episodes
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Episode 12: Rosa von Praunheim's TRANSEXUAL MENACE
This month on the podcast, Liz and KJ return to the well that is Rosa von Praunheim's vast filmography to take a look at a film that (sadly) has been becoming more and more relevent with each passing day this year: his 1996 documentary TRANSEXUAL MENACE. A companion piece of sorts to his earlier...
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Episode 11: Richard Benner's OUTRAGEOUS!
Hello, welcome—and in the spirit of our neighbors to our north, bonjour bienvenue. In this month's episode, we discuss a film that almost defies belief: a highly popular and critically acclaimed queer film from the 1970s about a drag queen's ambitions for stardom and his tumultuous friendship…
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Episode 10: Gregg Araki's THREE BEWILDERED PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT (1987)
This month on the podcast, Liz and Keegan take a look at queer filmmaker Gregg Araki's first film. You might know it, it's about two HIV+ gay men on the run after killing a cop, who—oh, wait, no it's not THE LIVING END, it's Araki's actual first film, 1987's THREE BEWILDERED PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT....
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Episode 9: Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s DADDY DEAREST (1984)
What better way to wrap up the year than with a beautiful work of gay adult cinema from a still-underappreciated director? This month, Liz and KJ cover Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s DADDY DEAREST—an adult film about the making of an adult film that's just as dreamlike and wistful as is relentlessly...
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Episode 8: Gordon Willis's WINDOWS (1980)
This month on Cruising the Movies, Liz and KJ take a look at what is undoubtedly one of the most controversial lesbian films ever made: cinematographer-turned-director Gordon Willis's 1980 film, Windows. Talia Shire stars as Emily, a mousy stutterer who endures a bizarre assault at the hands of a...
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Episode 7: William Castle's HOMICIDAL + Mark Oates and Tom Rubnitz's PSYKHO III: THE MUSICAL
This month on CRUISING THE MOVIES, Liz and KJ take a look at two very different—but similar!—riffs on Alfred Hitchcock's analyzed-to-death PSYCHO: William Castle's 1961 film HOMICIDAL and Mark Oates and Tom Rubnitz's 1985 video short, PSYKHO III: THE MUSICAL. In HOMICIDAL, the kind-hearted Miriam...
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Episode 6: Rosa von Praunheim's ARMY OF LOVERS OR REVOLT OF THE PERVERTS (1979)
On this episode of CRUISING THE MOVIES, Liz and KJ discuss what they consider one of the best documentaries of all time, regardless of topic: Rosa Von Praunheim's ARMY OF LOVERS OR REVOLT OF THE PERVERTS. Made by the prodigious German filmmaker in the aftermath of his groundbreaking and...
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Episode 5: Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s GLEN OR GLENDA (1953)
On this episode of CRUISING THE MOVIES, our hosts dive into another queer film classic: Edward D. Wood, Jr..'s GLEN OR GLENDA. Calling anything Ed Wood made a genuine "classic" is a relatively new phenomenon in many film circles. Ed Wood used to be the laughingstock of lazy (and bigoted)...
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Episode 4: Fatale Video's SUBURBAN DYKES (1991) and SAFE IS DESIRE (1993)
On this episode of Cruising the Movies, Liz and KJ discuss two classic dyke porn shorts: Fatale Video's SAFE IS DESIRE and SUBURBAN DYKES. Born from the same minds who created On Our Backs magazine, Fatale was the first adult film studio dedicated to making movies by and for lesbians, showcasing...
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Episode 3: Frank Ripploh's TAXI ZUM KLO (1980)
On this episode, Liz and KJ are excited to discuss one of their all-time favorites: Frank Ripploh's 1980 debut, TAXI ZUM KLO. Still more thrilling and funny than most of the films that have taken inspiration from it over the past four decades, TAXI ZUM KLO continues to spark conversations about...
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Episode 2: Bob Clark's SHE-MAN: A STORY OF FIXATION (1967) and QUEENS AT HEART
This month on CRUISING THE MOVIES, Liz and KJ take you into the twilight world of men turned into women with BLACK CHRISTMAS filmmaker Bob Clark's feature debut, SHE-MAN: A STORY OF FIXATION. Made in Florida with a cast largely drawn from the stage of New York's legendary 82 Club, SHE-MAN tells…
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Episode 1: Bruce LaBruce's NO SKIN OFF MY ASS (1991)
In this inaugural episode of CRUISING THE MOVIES, Liz and KJ take a look at the controversial (and oft-censored) debut feature from one of queer cinema's great provocateurs: Bruce LaBruce. A loose remake of Robert Altman's THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK, LaBruce's NO SKIN OFF MY ASS tells the story of...
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Episode 44: A New Chapter...
We know it's been a while since you last heard from us, so we wanted to let you know about our new project. It's a spiritual successor to ASK ANY BUDDY called Cruising the Movies: a monthly podcast and film screening series at IFC Center in New York City exploring the fringes of queer cinema...
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Episode 43: 'ASK ANY BUDDY and the Golden Age of All-Male Adult Cinema' Preview
We're back! This week, we return from our extended summer break with a look at something that's been in the works for nearly three years: the ASK ANY BUDDY and the Golden Age of All-Male Adult Cinema series happening at New York's Anthology Film Archives beginning this Thursday, October 20th and...
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Episode 42: Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s DADDY DEAREST (1984)
This week on the podcast, we're celebrating the release of Altered Innocence's new Blu-ray release of Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s seminal PASSING STRANGERS and FORBIDDEN LETTERS by taking a look at his 1984 film, DADDY DEAREST. The third and final film in Bressan's self-described 'personal/porno...
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Episode 41: Jean Estienne's "AND... GOD CREATED MEN" (1978)
This week on the podcast, we wrap up our month in Paris with the film that trailers described as being "the gayest… Frenchest… French gay porn film which will fill your heart's desire," Jean Estienne's 1978 romantic drama, ET... DIEU CRÉA LES HOMMES ("AND... GOD CREATED MEN). The first...
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Episode 40: Peter de Rome's ADAM & YVES (1974)
Bienvenue! This month on the podcast we're going international by taking a look at two films shot and set in gay Paree. Up first is Peter de Rome's 1974 romantic comedy, ADAM & YVES. If you know the film, it's probably for at least one of two reasons: that it was Peter de Rome's first...
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Episode 39: Enrico Montenegro's FORBIDDEN PORTRAITS (1982)
The lines between reality, art, and fantasy all blur together this week on the podcast as we take a look at one-and-done director Enrico Montenegro's FORBIDDEN PORTRAITS. Sebastian is a Montreal-based artist whose expertise is drawing male erotica. When he randomly receives an envelope of nudes...
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Episode 38: Red Drayton's HOLLYWOOD COWBOY (1974)
This week on the podcast, we explore one of the strangest and most outrageous gay films of the 1970s: Red Drayton's HOLLYWOOD COWBOY. With a cast and crew assembled from filmmaker Pat Rocco's fan club SPREE, HOLLYWOOD COWBOY feels like both an undiscovered midnight movie and a hardcore variation…
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Episode 37: Tom DeSimone's CATCHING UP (1975)
When Tom DeSimone's CATCHING UP begins, two lovers are in crisis. The older man, Frank, tells his younger partner Dennis that their relationship has grown stagnant after a mere three months of living together. Frank's solution? Spice things up by opening their relationship! At first outraged by...
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Episode 36: Jack Deveau's FIRE ISLAND FEVER (1979)
Somewhere between RASHOMON and a telenovela, Jack Deveau's FIRE ISLAND FEVER does what many of us wish we could at this time of year: launch from mid-winter chills to summertime splendor. Featuring a supporting cast of New York gay entertainment grand dames, FIRE ISLAND FEVER takes us to the...
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Episode 35: Wakefield Poole's BOYS IN THE SAND (1971)
Wakefield Poole's Boys in the Sand wasn't the first gay porn film, nor was it star Casey Donovan's screen debut. It wasn't even the first gay film to be be shot on Fire Island. But its runaway success and crossover appeal marked a turning point in the nation's growing gay consciousness and...
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Episode 34: Roger Earl's BORN TO RAISE HELL (1975)
Guess who's back? The podcast returns for a special holiday Fistmas treat, with one of the roughest films we've covered: Roger Earl's BORN TO RAISE HELL. Filmed with an unflinching documentary feel, Earl's film comes with a disclaimer that it is 'based on a psychological study of a…
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Episode 33: Michael Zen's FALCONHEAD II: THE MANEATERS (1984)
Happy Halloween, everyone! We wanted to cap off Spooky Season with a true classic—and so we're covering one of the most beloved films in the adult male genre. FALCONHEAD II throws us back into Michael Zen's haunting realm of narcissistic self love, but with a few key twists. We're no longer in a...
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Episode 32: Linus Terri's WE'LL MEET AGAIN (1978) with Marc Paris
Spooky Season is in full force with this week's episode: Linus Terri's horny phantom melodrama WE'LL MEET AGAIN! Don't worry if you're more of a Care Bear than a horror hound, since this movie has more in common with an episode of GHOST WHISPERER than Terri's previous work, the recently-discussed...
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Special Bonus Episode: J. C. Cricket's SEX DEMON (1975) with Joe Rubin
Happy Spooky Season, everyone! In the spirit of being more treat than trick, we're releasing this bonus episode to everyone! And boy, do we have a treat for you: we're discussing the previously-lost possession film SEX DEMON. Truly more interesting than THE EXORCIST—it knows when to actually be...
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Episode 31: Hand in Hand Films's GOOD HOT STUFF (1975) with William E. Jones
Have we got a surprise for you this week, listeners! On this episode, we discuss Hand in Hand's ode to itself GOOD HOT STUFF. Part cheeky documentary, part meta-history, and part outright salvage job, GOOD HOT STUFF takes us through the young studio's early artistic successes and previews its...
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Episode 30: Ray Harrison's ALL ABOUT ALICE (1972)
What happens when a short story becomes a classic movie, which then becomes a radio play, and then a Broadway musical, and then a campy drag parody featuring the beefy one-time owner of the Gold's Gym empire? You get Ray Harrison and the GGRC's 1972 film ALL ABOUT ALICE. This week, we're...
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Episode 29: Jerry Douglas's BOTH WAYS (1975)
This week on the podcast, we're exposing 'the eternal triangle of bi-sexuality' and all the trials and tribulations that come with trying to have it… BOTH WAYS, directed by Jerry Douglas and released in 1975. Future disco queen Andrea True and Douglas regular Gerald Grant star in this sensitive...
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Episode 28: Tom DeSimone's SKIN DEEP (1982)
This week on the podcast, we're taking a look a title that many consider to be among the greatest all-male films ever made: Tom DeSimone's SKIN DEEP. Released in the period after DeSimone's mainstream slasher classic HELL NIGHT, SKIN DEEP tells the story of Eric, a porno writer who falls for…
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Episode 27: William Higgins's THE BOYS OF VENICE (1978)
We're back! This week we're kicking off our second season by taking in the sights and studs of sunny California with William Higgins's THE BOYS OF VENICE. Taking the form of a sexual travelogue, THE BOYS OF VENICE was truly a breakthrough film that helped usher in a new look and style that would...
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Episode 26: Rob Simple's AMERICAN CREAM (1972)
This week on the podcast, we're getting patriotic — or are we? — with a look at Rob Simple's 1972 film, AMERICAN CREAM. A satirical deconstruction of masculinity told in three unrelated loops, AMERICAN CREAM is among the stranger films to emerge from the early years of the genre. Over the course…
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Episode 25: Ignatio Rutkowski's NIGHTS IN BLACK LEATHER (1973)
Tanned, sinewy, aloof — a few adjectives that only begin to describe Peter Berlin, the enigmatic star of Ignatio Rutkowski's 1973 film NIGHTS IN BLACK LEATHER. Described as "combining the camp machismo of the leather set and [Berlin's] own sense of comedy" by Foxylady magazine, NIGHTS IN BLACK...
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Episode 24: Arch Brown's LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (1974) + Zachary Youngblood's CELEBRATION (1982)
Happy Pride! We're kicking off June with a double-header: Arch Brown's LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (1974) and Zachary Youngblood's CELEBRATION (1978/1982). Although neither of these films may be a classic of the genre, both include vital footage of early Pride parades in New York City and San Francisco,...
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Episode 23: Jason Sato's BROTHERS (1973)
"It began at an airport…" This week on the show — and themed around the Memorial Day holiday — we present Jason Sato and Nick Eliot's 1973 drama, BROTHERS. The film explores the relationship between homosexual Vince, and his younger — and straight — brother Rick, who has just returned home on…
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Episode 22: Joe Gage's KANSAS CITY TRUCKING CO. (1976)
"Have you ever wondered about truckers… or about how men get it on… with each other?" asks the trailer for KANSAS CITY TRUCKING CO., Joe Gage's 1976 story of a straight trucker whose consciousness is raised on his first cross-country haul to Los Angeles. A truly landmark film, KANSAS CITY…
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Episode 21: PAT ROCCO DARES (1969)
In June 1968, Los Angeles' Park Theatre held the world's first gay film festival. Mixed in the usual works by figures like Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Milligan was a new name: Pat Rocco. Though he'd only started making films that year, Rocco would quickly become the vanguard of a new,...
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Episode 20: Steve Scott's PERFORMANCE (1981)
This week on the show we're taking it to the stage with "the all-male hit of 1981," Steve Scott's PERFORMANCE. Featuring a bevy of West Coast superstars and up-and-comers, PERFORMANCE follows the planning and production of an all-male burlesk extravaganza, culminating with Nick Rodgers'...
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Episode 19: Arch Brown's THE NIGHT BEFORE (1973)
This week on the podcast, we're taking a look at the sole big-budget feature from the filmmaker Christopher Rage once described as being "the man who practically invented gay porn," Arch Brown. THE NIGHT BEFORE tells the story of Hank, a slacker with no real ambition in life other than to meet…
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Episode 18: Fred Halsted's L.A. PLAYS ITSELF (1972)
This week on the podcast, we're finally taking a look at the film that set the gay world on fire: Fred Halsted's L.A. PLAYS ITSELF. Described by its creator as a sort of 'confessional yin-and-yang,' the film's highly controversial emphasis on sadomasochism and ambivalent tone drew as much...
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Episode 17: Gorton Hall's ZOOMERANG! (1974)
This week on the podcast we're wrapping up a month of grand romance with Gorton Hall's 1974 epic, ZOOMERANG! The first film to be shot in the exciting screen process known as Ultravision, ZOOMERANG! tells the story of Gary and Jack, a middle-class gay couple living in domestic bliss. All that...
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Episode 16: Francis Ellie's KISS TODAY GOODBYE (1976)
This week on the podcast — and just in time for Valentine's Day — we're taking a look at Francis Ellie's 1976 "romantic triangle of triumph and tragedy," KISS TODAY GOODBYE. George Payne stars as Charlie, a construction worker who finds himself having a torrid affair with Bill, an executive at…
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Episode 15: Christopher Rage's SLEAZE (1982)
This week on the podcast, we're taking a look at the film that gave notorious "Master of Sleaze" Christopher Rage his nickname: his sole 16mm feature, SLEAZE. Hyped in advertising as being "ain't no LOVE STORY," SLEAZE documents the initiations and going-ons of an underground, 42nd Street sex…
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Episode 14: Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s JUICE (1985)
We begin a new year of the podcast with Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s 1985 film, JUICE. Bressan's final adult film (and penultimate feature), JUICE is a sweet movie about 48 cruisey, humpy hours in New York City marked with a deadline. Michael Christopher plays Jim, a photographer who's about to lose…
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A Fistmas Bonus: Talking NEW YORK CITY INFERNO with NYC Inferno Founder Adam Baran
It's a Fistmas miracle! As a special stocking stuffer for you, we have an interview with Adam Baran, filmmaker and founder of the long-running New York sex party, NYC Inferno. Over the course of our discussion, we'll be talking about Adam's first encounters with NEW YORK CITY INFERNO (Episode…
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Episode 13: Jack Deveau's ROUGH TRADES (1977)
Merry Fistmas! On our last episode of 2020, we'll be exploring a film about shafts and the working class, Jack Deveau's 'blue collar blue movie,' ROUGH TRADES. A deliberate attempt by Hand in Hand Films to scale back production costs, ROUGH TRADES is a simple story about one music producer and a...
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Episode 12: Marvin Merkins' NEW YORK CITY INFERNO (1978)
This week we're kicking off Fistmas season with our very first French film: Marvin Merkins' NEW YORK CITY INFERNO. Straddling the line between narrative and travelogue, the film tells the story of Jérôme, a Frenchman who descends into New York's hedonistic leather scene to find his missing lover,...
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Episode 11: Tom DeSimone's THE IDOL (1979)
This week on the podcast, we're rebounding from our last episode with a true classic of the genre, Tom DeSimone's 1979 film, THE IDOL. Heavily promoted upon its release as being "the motion picture you've waited a long time to see," THE IDOL tells the story of Gary Evans, a college track star…
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Episode 10: Mother Goose's ROOM 328 + Fritz Gemein's HONORABLE JONES COMES OUT (1976)
This week on the show, we're taking a look at two... out there... films built around iconic — and long gone — San Francisco cruising spots: The Slot Hotel in Mother Goose's ROOM 328 and the Spartan Cinema in Fritz Gemein's HONORABLE JONES COMES OUT. Over the course of our discussion, we'll go…
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Episode 9: Peter de Rome's THE DESTROYING ANGEL (1976)
We wrap up our month of horror-themed titles with perhaps the spookiest of them all: Peter de Rome's nightmarishly psychedelic 1976 film, THE DESTROYING ANGEL. Tim Kent stars as Caswell Campbell, a seminary student torn between the cloth and the flesh and plagued by visions of his more endowed...
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Cruising the Movies is a new monthly podcast and screening series at IFC Center in New York from the creators of Ask Any Buddy. In each episode, Elizabeth Purchell and KJ Shepherd take a look at a different film from the fringes of queer cinema history. Through interviews, archival sources, and conversations with filmmakers, critics, and historians, this podcast and screening series will uncover how cinema is inextricable from queer history at large.
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