'' Interior . Leather Bar . '' is a 2013 American docufiction film , which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival . 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 '' . The film 's cast also includes Val Lauren , Christian Patrick , Brenden Gregory , Brad Roberge , Colin Chavez , Michael Lannan and A.J. Goodrich
2013 Sundance Film Festival
2013 Sundance Film Festival
Interior. Leather Bar.