Desperate souls, dark city and the legend of Midnight cowboy
DVD - 2023
A half-century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X-rated film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its vivid and compassionate depiction of a more realistic, unsanitized New York City and its inhabitants paved the way for a generation's worth of gritty movies with complex characters and adult themes. But this is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: it is about the deeply gifted and fl...awed people behind a dark and difficult masterpiece; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era. Featuring extensive archival material and compelling new interviews, director Nancy Buirski illuminates how one film captured the essence of a time and a place, reflecting a rapidly changing society with striking clarity.
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- Genres
- Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Feature films - Published
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[New York, New York] :
Kino Lorber, LLC
[2023]
[New York, New York] : [2023] - Language
- English
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- Item Description
- Title from container.
Inspired by Shooting Midnight Cowboy: art, sex, loneliness, liberation, and the making of a dark classic by Glenn Frankel.
Originally released as a documentary film in 2022.
Wide screen (1.78:1).
Special features: Extended interview with Midnight cowboy cinematographer Adam Holender; theatrical trailer. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1, 16x9); 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo.
- Production Credits
- Editor, Anthony Ripoli ; director of photography, Rex Miller.
- ISBN
- 9786319066036