Interior. Leather Bar.
Strand Releasing | Release Date: January 3, 2014
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katezoeMay 12, 2014
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very interesting commentary on Hollywood and American society discomfort with homosexuality and gay sex. Franco brilliantly explores how taboo is the depiction of gay sex on film. The film is actually a documentary on shooting the alleged 40 minutes from Friedkin's 'Cruising' but that is just the jumping point of this intellectually stimulating conversation on Gay America.… Expand
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foxgroveJan 3, 2014
This documentary based around the supposedly cut 40 minutes from William Friedkin's controversial 1980 film 'Cruising', is a bizarre if intriguing proposition. We never fully comprehend why actor James Franco would want to partake in such aThis documentary based around the supposedly cut 40 minutes from William Friedkin's controversial 1980 film 'Cruising', is a bizarre if intriguing proposition. We never fully comprehend why actor James Franco would want to partake in such a film, but he is certainly to be admired for his diligence and determination in what many considered a foolhardy project for the A lister. The film fascinatingly touches on his involvement and explores the possibility of repercussions affecting his Hollywood career. After all one has to admit this is a long way from Disney's Oz.
The film does raise many very pertinent points about human conditioning and sexuality which are definitely topics for debate. However, because of its subject matter and some explicit sexual material, it will certainly have a very limited audience. Ultimately, and in all probability, it will find itself preaching to the converted. Oddly, though, it was meant to be a film about the afore mentioned cut 40 minutes. Well, we don't actually get to see that film. One is finally left feeling that, for all the little nuggets of thought provoking conversation raised, in the final analysis the resultant enterprise is somewhat redundant even though it is eminently watchable.… Expand
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kos2Mar 23, 2014
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. At the outset of this film it feels like a real-time documentary about the attempt to make an imagined reconstruction of these cut 40 minutes. There are only a couple of minutes of this recreation, because the film is really just "about the making of" (that is, the process) rather than any result. By the end you feel as if the entire spontaneous interviews are in fact carefully planned. Franco is just one of the producers, but his name creates desire among his Hollywood friends who feel any of his expectoration is genius (which serves to underscore the lack of intelligence in Hollywood). His explanation of why he wants to create this film (that it's an act of breaking down the barriers that social customs have imposed on us) sounds like any immature adolescent. That Franco thinks he's breaking any barriers shows his shocking ignorance of anything that came before him. Ultimately it's an act of navel-gazing.… Expand
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LowbrowCinemaMar 22, 2015
More premise than film, INTERIOR: LEATHER BAR seems to want to shock but it can't. There's simply nothing there. The less said the better about this total misfire made by people with very little on their mind other than to riff on otherMore premise than film, INTERIOR: LEATHER BAR seems to want to shock but it can't. There's simply nothing there. The less said the better about this total misfire made by people with very little on their mind other than to riff on other people's far better works. See CRUISING instead. It may be a mess, but CRUISING is also some kind of masterpiece of its time and unlike INTERIOR has too much on its mind rather than too little or almost nothing.… Expand
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Coxmjc23Mar 11, 2023
I really loved it and enjoyed it and even bought it so I'm happy to say great watch and great scenes maybe even trying it some time the only complaint is James Franco could have joined in with the scenes and show a side we never seenI really loved it and enjoyed it and even bought it so I'm happy to say great watch and great scenes maybe even trying it some time the only complaint is James Franco could have joined in with the scenes and show a side we never seen before!!! Highly Recommended!!!… Expand
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