Interior. Leather Bar.

2013 American film

Interior. Leather Bar.

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Directed by| James Franco
Travis Mathews
Screenplay by| Travis Mathews
Produced by| James Franco
Vince Jolivette
Michael Lannan
Travis Mathews
Iris Torres
Starring| James Franco
Travis Mathews
Val Lauren
Christian Patrick
Brenden Gregory
Brad Roberge
Colin Chavez
A.J. Goodrich
Cinematography| Samantha Barrows
Seana Carroll
James Franco
Travis Mathews
Keith Wilson
Edited by| Travis Mathews
Music by| Santiago Latorre
Distributed by| Strand Releasing
Peccadillo Pictures

Release dates

* January 19, 2013 (2013-01-19) (Sundance Film Festival)
* January 2, 2014 (2014-01-02) (United States)

Running time

| 60 minutes[1]
Country| United States
Language| English
Box office| $11,142[2]

Interior. Leather Bar. is a 2013 American docufiction film, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[3] Directed by James Franco and Travis Mathews, the film stars Franco and Mathews as themselves working on a film project which reimagines and attempts to recreate the 40 minutes of deleted and lost sexually explicit footage from the controversial 1980 film Cruising.[3] The film's cast also includes Val Lauren, Christian Patrick, Brenden Gregory, Brad Roberge, Colin Chavez, Michael Lannan and A.J. Goodrich.[3]

## Background

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Despite early media reports when the project was first announced, the film is not itself a recreation of the deleted footage, featuring only brief scenes that actually do so literally.[4] Instead, it uses the idea of recreating the footage as a plot point to explore the creative and ethical questions arising from the process of trying to make such a film. It depicts issues such as the actors' level of comfort or discomfort with the material, the conflict between creative freedom and censorship, and the ways in which the cinematic representation of LGBT issues and people has evolved since Cruising was originally released in 1980.[3] One of the main narrative threads of the film is the confusion of several participants over why James Franco would want to be involved in such a project in the first place.[1]

Mathews has stated in interviews that one aspect of the original film's production that interested him was the contrast between analyses which suggest that the deleted footage constituted homophobic propaganda, and those which suggest that it was more documentary in nature.[5]

## Reception

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Interior. Leather Bar has an approval rating of 58% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 38 reviews, and an average rating of 5.4/10.[6] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 47 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[7]

## See also

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* List of docufiction films

## References

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1. ^ a b Dargis, Manohla (March 4, 2014). "A Heavy Bass Beat, a Wreath of Smoke, an Aura of Sweat 'Interior. Leather Bar.,' Spun From Recreated Lost Footage". The New York Times.
2. ^ "Interior. Leather Bar". Box Office Mojo.
3. ^ a b c d "Interior. Leather Bar.: Sundance Review". The Hollywood Reporter, January 19, 2013.
4. ^ "Gay Film Auteur Travis Mathews Talks Interior. Leather Bar.". Filmmaker, January 19, 2013.
5. ^ "Cruising With Travis Mathews: The Nightcharm Interview" Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Nightcharm, March 9, 2013.
6. ^ "Interior. Leather Bar. (2013) | Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.
7. ^ "Interior. Leather Bar". Metacritic.

## External links

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* Interior. Leather Bar. at IMDb
* Interior. Leather Bar. at Metacritic
* Interior. Leather Bar. at Rotten Tomatoes

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Films directed|

* The Ape (2005)
* Good Time Max (2007)
* Saturday Night (2010)
* The Broken Tower (2011)
* Sal (2011)
* My Own Private River (2011)
* Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)
* As I Lay Dying (2013)
* Child of God (2013)
* The Sound and the Fury (2014)
* In Dubious Battle (2016)
* The Institute (2017)
* The Disaster Artist (2017)
* Future World (2018)
* The Pretenders (2018)
* Zeroville (2019)
* The Long Home (TBA)

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* Dave Franco (brother)
* Tom Franco (brother)
* Rabbit Bandini Productions
* Studio 4

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