Cover image for Midnight cowboy
Title:
Midnight cowboy
Series Number:
925.
Summary:
"One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its 'homosexual frame of reference,' Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema"--Container.
Audience:
MPAA rating: R.
General Note:
Title information from title frames.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy.

Features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Adam Holender; Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack; Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman; New video essay with commentary by Holender; New photo gallery with commentary by photographer Michael Childers; The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy; Waldo Salt: a Screenwriter's Journey, an Academy-Award-nominated documentary from 1990 by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann; Two short documentaries from 2004 on the making and release of Midnight Cowboy; Interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show from 1970; Voight's original screen test; Interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles; Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA Los Angeles tribute to Schlesinger; Trailer; An essay by critic Mark Harris.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Contents:
Disc one. [Feature film] -- disc two. [Special features].
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (113 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : color illustrations ; folded to 19 cm).
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Publication Date:
2018

1969
ISBN:
9781681434476
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Award Note:
Academy Award, 1970: Best picture; Best director; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium.
Call Number:
DVD MIDNIGH
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