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This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
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.
Sponsored by Barbara & Steve Forman
- Year2023
- Runtime101 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereEast Coast US
- DirectorNancy Buirski
- ScreenwriterNancy Buirski
- ProducerNancy Buirski, Simon Kilmurry, Susan Margolin
- Executive ProducerGeralyn White Dreyfous, Regina K. Scully, Glen Salzman, Jamie Wolf, James Costa, Nathalie Seaver, J.C. Mills, Mark Trustin
- CastBob Balaban, Ian Buruma, Michael Childers
- CinematographerRex Miller
If you would like to donate to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking here. You can also experience all the films streaming in the Festival's virtual program by purchasing an All-Access Virtual Pass by clicking here.
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
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.
Sponsored by Barbara & Steve Forman
- Year2023
- Runtime101 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereEast Coast US
- DirectorNancy Buirski
- ScreenwriterNancy Buirski
- ProducerNancy Buirski, Simon Kilmurry, Susan Margolin
- Executive ProducerGeralyn White Dreyfous, Regina K. Scully, Glen Salzman, Jamie Wolf, James Costa, Nathalie Seaver, J.C. Mills, Mark Trustin
- CastBob Balaban, Ian Buruma, Michael Childers
- CinematographerRex Miller
