An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York’s seedy underbelly in Cruising – available for the first time on Blu-ray in a brand new director-approved transfer.

New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city’s underground bars. Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows – but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.

Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker’s novel, Cruising was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino’s haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece.

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Looking for Richard (1996)

A workshop of William Shakespeare’s Richard III inspires actor-director Al Pacino’s breezy documentary, which aims to make the playwright accessible to contemporary American audiences. Though a noteworthy cast of stage actors and Hollywood stars (including Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin) gathers to work on the play, Looking for Richard does not present a straightforward filmed version of the scheming, deformed king’s rise and fall. Instead, Pacino turns the cameras on the rehearsal process and his own exploration of Shakespeare’s history and meaning. Scenes in full costume alternate with readings in street clothes, while interviews gather the opinions on the Bard of everyone from renowned scholars and Shakespearean actors to random New Yorkers. A trip to England allows brief visits to Shakespeare’s birthplace and the Globe Theater, but Pacino’s focus remains on the United States and his desire to prove that American actors can act the plays without mimicking their British counterparts. Clearly a labor of love for Pacino, the film benefits from his passionate persona and direct, no-nonsense attitude; while the performances may vary in quality, the film manifests a refreshingly casual, unpretentious, and enthusiastic approach to Shakespeare. – allmovie.com

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A 1980 psychological thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name, by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a serial killer targeting gay men, in particular those associated with the S&M scene.
Poorly reviewed by critics, Cruising was a modest financial success, though the filming and promotion were dogged by gay rights protesters. The title is a play on words with a dual meaning, as “cruising” can describe police officers on patrol and also cruising for sex.

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Max, an ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by Lion, a homeless ex-sailor, and they partner up as they head east together.

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Scarecrow tends to get lost in the shuffle, overshadowed in the filmographies of its stars, Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, by New Hollywood juggernauts like The French Connection and The Godfather. At the time of its release, Scarecrow was considered a commercial flop, and was shortsightedly written off by many critics as just another rambling buddy/road movie in the register of Easy Rider—though Robin Wood was typically perspicacious about the film’s warmth and investment in character. Yet the passing years have proven Scarecrow’s continuing appeal as a low-key character study, a downbeat ode to the downtrodden, an elegy for the American dream gone sour. Director Jerry Schatzberg and DP Vilmos Zsigmond craft a visually rich and evocative film as attuned to the rhapsodic vistas of the American pastoral as it is to the squalid dive bars and inhumane work farms that provide the grungy backdrop for screenwriter Garry Michael White’s loose-limbed drama. Where The Panic in Needle Park, Schatzberg’s previous collaboration with Pacino, had been intensely focused and almost entirely circumscribed by its eponymous Upper West Side locale, Scarecrow embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon.

Clownish Francis (Pacino) and burly, temperamental Max (Hackman) encounter each other trying unsuccessfully to hitch a ride along the winding two-lane blacktop of rural California. The landscape is straight out of John Steinbeck, with its rolling grassy hills and lowering stormy sky (the indelible opening shot alone is worth the price of admission). The characters’ interaction plays like cut-rate Samuel Beckett, somewhere between slapstick and existential estrangement. Francis has been “at sea” in the Navy for five years after running away from his pregnant wife in Detroit, while volatile Max is fresh from a stretch in San Quentin. Like the title character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Wakefield,” once these men step aside from their situations in life, they become “outcasts of the universe,” their dreams as tenuous and out of reach as their respective destinations. Francis carries around a gift-wrapped package meant for the child he’s never seen. Max yearns to open a car wash in Pittsburgh, filling entire notebooks during his prison stint with painstakingly annotated facts and figures.

For much of Scarecrow’s running time, the filmmakers seem content to let Hackman and Pacino burrow deep into their characters, with the result that both actors deliver career-defining performances. On the other hand, White’s script blunders at times into typical newbie-screenwriter traps—for instance, by rendering the title metaphor far too manifest. Francis’s spiel about the scarecrow as laughingstock is meant to embody his life philosophy, his habit of defusing tense situations with buffoonery, but the whole scene is exaggerated and its point reiterated until it’s been run into the ground. Despite this overplayed hand, both the actors and the film regain their footing as Francis and Max careen from episode to episode, each vignette a micro-study in behaviorism with little in the way of connective tissue, until they arrive in Denver, where Max’s sister, Coley (Dorothy Tristan), lives. Life with Coley and her friend, Frenchy (Ann Wedgeworth), who takes an immediate shine to Max, offers them a chance to put down roots again and reestablish something resembling a conventional existence. It’s an opportunity that Max, with his violent proclivities, soon spoils, landing both of them in the county work farm. When Francis falls in with a shady trustee (played by perennial movie villain Richard Lynch in his first role), the ensuing brutality paves the way for future exploitation and victimization.

Even a film as resolutely peripatetic as Scarecrow eventually must be headed somewhere, and so White contrives a confrontation between Francis and his ex-wife, Annie (Penelope Allen), that leaves Francis reeling from her mendacious pronouncement about their kid. The imposition of these apparently obligatory third-act histrionics inevitably feels shoehorned; Francis’s subsequent outburst at Detroit’s Belle Isle fountain is kept from ringing hollow only by the rigorousness of its staging and the purity of Pacino’s performance. In the end, Schatzberg arrives at a wonderfully apt parting shot: a moment that perfectly encapsulates Max’s feelings of frustration in a gesture of impotent protest. The goddamn crows may indeed be laughing, but the abiding tone of Scarecrow is far from comedy; it’s one of irremediable and inconsolable loss.

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