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  • Episode 12: Rosa von Praunheim's TRANSEXUAL MENACE

    March 13, 2025 · 36 min

    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…

  • Episode 11: Richard Benner's OUTRAGEOUS!

    February 26, 2025 · 40 min

    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…

  • Episode 10: Gregg Araki's THREE BEWILDERED PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT (1987)

    January 6, 2025 · 47 min

    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…

  • Episode 9: Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s DADDY DEAREST (1984)

    December 9, 2024 · 42 min

    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…

  • Episode 8: Gordon Willis's WINDOWS (1980)

    November 25, 2024 · 48 min

    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…

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About the show

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.