Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy poster

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy( 2023)

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Overview

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.

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      Bob Balaban

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      Ian Buruma

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      Michael Childers

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      Brian De Palma

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      James Hoberman

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      Adam Holender

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      Charles Kaiser

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      Jennifer Salt

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      Lucy Sante

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      Brenda Vaccaro

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      Jon Voight

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      Edmund White

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    A review by Brent Marchant

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    Written by Brent Marchant on Tue Sep 05 2023
    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 seems to focus on virtually everything except the film itself, drawing upon an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to explaining what influenced this screen epic rather than what went into the mak...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • filmmaking
    • cinema history