Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
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.
- 5.8
- 2023
- Released
- 1h 42m
Bob Balaban
Self
Ian Buruma
Self
Michael Childers
SelfJames Hoberman
SelfCharles Kaiser
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Jennifer Salt
SelfLucy Sante
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Brenda Vaccaro
Self
Jon Voight
Self
Edmund White
Self
Released
en
- #filmmaking
- #cinema history
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It’s unfortunate when a filmmaker sets out to pay tribute to a cinematic classic yet somehow manages to mangle the effort, but, regrettably, that’s precisely what happened in writer-director Nancy Buirski’s attempted homage to John Schlesinger’s “Midnight Cowboy” (1969), the only X-rated release ever to win the Oscar for best picture. The scattered narrative of this poorly constructed documentary