“Cruising,” William Friedkin’s notorious 1980 film starring Al Pacino as a putatively straight cop who goes undercover on Christopher Street to catch a serial killer of gays, is finally coming to DVD. So reports Variety’s venerable Army Archerd on his blog, where he adds the film will also be revived at the Cannes Film Festival (tip o’ the hat: The Reeler). Hopefully, the documentary on the firestorm surrounding the film’s release on Warner Home Video’s fall release will include Burt Reynold’s “Saturday Night Live” appearance in a hilarious skit that simulataneously spoofed “Cruising” and “Deliverance.”

If “Cruising” is coming out of he closet, er, vault, then when can we expect the other 1980 movie that provoked protests by gay activists? I’m taking about “Windows,” the directorial debut of legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis, starring Elizabeth Ashley as a psychopathic lesbian who tries to scare Talia Shire into loving her. As far as I know, “Windows” completely vanished after its brief theatrical run, and has never been revived, shown on TV or released on video in the U.S., though Warner Home Video reportedly put it out on VHS in the UK in 1986. It would make a helluva double feature with “Cruising.”