Mineshaft The Cruising Murders
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Jeffrey Schwarz talks with Queerguru about MINESHAFT : The Cruising Murders
Queerguru has always been passionate about queer history …. something you will no doubt have spotted if you follow us regularly. And for the past 15 years, one of the major sources we have come to really love and appreciate is the work of Emmy Award-winning film producer, director, and editor Jeffrey Schwarz. We first…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’, a brilliant documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz about the controversy around the cult 1980 queer film Cruising.
We can always trust director Jeffrey Schwarz to deliver compelling documentaries about queer social history. The maker of I Am Divine, Tab Hunter Confidential, The Fabulous Allan Carr, Boulevard! A Hollywood Story and Vito is back with Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, the story of the controversy around the making of the 1980 queer cult-classic film…
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Teaser Trailer of Jeffrey Schwarz’s highly anticipated “Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders”
Back in 2022, Emmy Award filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz was given an award from The Frameline Completion Fund. They provide grants to both emerging and established filmmakers to fund their works in progress. In Schwarz’s case, it was to help him complete his highly anticipated Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, in which he peels back the…
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Jeffrey Schwarz’s ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ : World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival
William Friedkin’s 1980 film CRUISING was….. and still is … the most controversial queer film ever made. It’s about a series of violent New York murders in which the victims all frequent clandestine Manhattan nightclubs in which gay men gather to dance, drink, and make pairings while enveloped in an S&M atmosphere of leather, boots,…
