Midnight Cowboy (Collector's Edition) (Widescreen) (2-DVD) R
Whatever you hear about Midnight Cowboy is true.
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DVD Features:
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: February 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Collectors Edition
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surrond - French
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital Mono - English
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
- Additional Release Material:
- Featurette: "Celebrating Schlesinger"
- Audio Commentary: Jerome Hellman - Producer
- Documentary:
- "After Midnight: Reflecting on the Classic 35 Years Later"
- "Controversy and Acclaim"
- Text/Photo Galleries:
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight | |
| Performer: | Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, John McGiver, Bob Balaban, Sylvia Miles, Ruth White, Viva & Paul Morrissey | |
| Directed by | John Schlesinger | |
| Edited by | Hugh A. Robertson | |
| Screenplay by | Waldo Salt | |
| Original story by | James Leo Herlihy | |
| Produced by | Jerome Hellman | |
| Director of Photography: | Adam Holender |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1969 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Waldo Salt
Academy Awards 1969 -
Best Director: John Schlesinger
Academy Awards 1969 -
Best Picture
Entertainment Reviews:
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88%
Rating: 4.5/5 --
John Schlesinger's confident direction brings out a side of New York City that had been largely ignored by cinema since the films noirs of the Forties.
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Eye for Film
A pair of performances of the highest calibre: funny, sensitive and finely adjusted to indicate the abject simple- mindedness that is their constant tripwire.
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The Spectator
Rating: 5/5 --
John Schlesinger presents a particularly un-pretty picture of the New York underworld as Voight's American dream shatters into a thousand psychedelic pieces.
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Sky Cinema
Midnight Cowboy features two of cinema's most indelible losers.
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: 3/4 --
Even with every foot of grim realism and some humor, Midnight Cowboy is rather a sad picture.
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New York Daily News
More than the grime and the weirdos, more than "Everybody's Talkin'" and "I'm walkin' here!," what echoes through the decades is its poignant depiction of an unlikely, contentious, and yet weirdly tender friendship forged on the margins of society.
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The Lens
No amount of obfuscation can obscure the film's vaulting performances.
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TIME Magazine
Product Description:
Joe Buck (Jon Voight), an aspiring male prostitute from Texas, heads to Manhattan where he hopes to find plenty of wealthy women willing to pay for the services of a handsome man. When he arrives, the naive country boy befriends Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), a tubercular homeless con artist who dreams of moving to Florida. As they go about trying to get the money Ratso needs, the two men confront the seediness, corruption, and cruelty that flourish in the big city.
Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, this Oscar-winning film (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay) features brilliant performances by Voight and Hoffman, and brings to the screen an unusually gritty realism in its portrayal of the streets of New York City.
Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, this Oscar-winning film (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay) features brilliant performances by Voight and Hoffman, and brings to the screen an unusually gritty realism in its portrayal of the streets of New York City.
Plot Synopsis:
Originally rated X, this exceptional film based on James Leo Herlihy's novel centers on a naive, small-town Texan who comes to New York to become a paid stud. He forms a unique relationship with a slimy con man who becomes his closest friend, and ultimately, the key to his salvation. The film depicts New York at its absolute grittiest, and features a very memorable soundtrack. Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Actor--both Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
Keywords:
Friends
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Buddies
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Classic
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Gay / Lesbian
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Prostitution
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Scams And Cons
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Illness
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Recommended
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Character Study
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Disturbing
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Lowlife
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Big City
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: 1969.
- Shot in Technicolor.
- MIDNIGHT COWBOY was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1994.
- Director John Schlesinger originally wanted actor Michael Sarrazin for the Joe Buck role, but he was already committed to THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY'
- MIDNIGHT COWBOY was Dustin Hoffman's first film after his star-making turn in THE GRADUATE. To achieve that distinctive Ratso Rizzo limp, Hoffman placed pebbles in his shoes.
- "Everybody's Talkin'" was featured on Harry Nilsson's 1968 album AERIAL BALLET. Nilsson's intended theme for COWBOY was "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City," written by Nilsson specifically for the film.
- The film was named one of the year's 10 Best English-language films by the National Board of Review, one of the year's 10 best foreign films by Japan's Kinema Jumpo, and the best non-European film of 1970 by Denmark's Bodil awards.
- Schlesinger received best foreign director of 1969-70 from two Italian awards, the Davids and the Silver Ribbons.
- Hoffman was named best actor of 1969-70 by Italy's David Awards.
- Voight was named Best Actor by the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics.
- A restored print of MIDNIGHT COWBOY was re-released to theaters in late February 1994 to commemorate the film's 25th anniversary.
- COWBOY was the first major studio release to sport an X rating and was the first X-rated film to win the Best Picture Academy Award. It was re-rated R by the MPAA in 1971.
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