Few movies have retained their ability to shock audiences (via their disgusting subject matter) after decades the way John ...

Award-winning documentarian Nancy Buirski looks back to see what combusted to make the now-classic 1969 Oscar-winning Best Picture “Midnight Cowboy,” still the only X-rated movie to win that top prize ...

“Midnight Cowboy,” somewhat surprisingly, won the Academy Award for best picture in 1969, an acknowledgment of director John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking film that the documentary “Desperate Souls, ...

"If I'm going to America to make a movie, this is the movie I'd like to make." Zeitgeist Films + Kino Lorber have unveiled the official trailer for a documentary film titled in full: Desperate Souls, ...

‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ uses a kaleidoscopic method to explore the cultural impact of the 1970 Oscar winner Elementary math can sum up Nancy Buirski’s approach ...

Voight and Hoffman are magnetic - the latter delivering one of the most iconic quotes in movie history through an ...

The ratings system gave it a death sentence with its X rating, but Dustin Hoffman's 'Midnight Cowboy' persevered and thrived.

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Glenn Frankel’s new book explores the making of a film that has become almost synonymous with New York City. Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy, 1969.(Photo by United Artists / Courtesy ...

Every film follows a script, with actors rehearsing their lines over and over before filming even begins. Things don't always go according to plan, though. Sometimes an actor will be "in the moment" ...

We got an exclusive first look at the brand-new musical Midnight Cowboy. Adapted from James Leo Herlihy’s novel and the Oscar-winning 1969 film, Midnight Cowboy follows Joe Buck, a young man seeking ...

The latest film-to-stage musical adaptation takes a real prestige movie as its source. Midnight Cowboy (based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy), which starred Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, received ...