James Franco’s risky, risqué meditation on sex in cinema was an SRO hit when TIGLFF presented it this summer during its off-season film series. A mock doc in which co-director Franco attempts to recreate censored, sexually explicit footage from the controversial 1980 flick Cruising, it raises questions about what’s permissible on screen (and definitely pushes the X-rated envelope) while keeping the viewer off-kilter throughout. As we said in July, “The movie blurs fiction and reality, straight and gay to a bewildering extent, but it’s never less than fascinating.” Mon. Oct. 7, 8:45 p.m., Muvico Baywalk.
This article appears in Oct 3-9, 2013.