Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

2022

Documentary / History

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 91% · 33 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71%
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 356 356

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Nancy Buirski Photo
Nancy Buirski

Top cast

Jon Voight Photo
Jon Voight as Self
Dustin Hoffman Photo
Dustin Hoffman as Self
Bob Balaban Photo
Bob Balaban as Self - Actor, Director
Brenda Vaccaro Photo
Brenda Vaccaro as Self - Actor
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932.23 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 41 min
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1.69 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 20

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mossgrymk 7 / 10

desperate souls, dark city, legend of midnight cowboy

The stuff about John Schlesinger was interesting and I like how director Nancy Buirski connected this great film of his with the transformation of homosexuality into gay that was occurring in western society in the 60s. I also like how she placed "Cowboy" in the underground NYC tradition of Warhol and Scorsese (although a nod to previous such works like "Shadows" and "Sweet Smell Of Success" would have been nice). However, I cannot go along with Buirski in what I take to be her belief that this film is somehow unique in its expression of 60s edginess and rebellion. I can easily think of several works with an equal claim to 60s envelope pushing personification, such as "Wild Bunch", "Easy Rider" and, especially, "Bonnie And Clyde", which goes strangely unmentioned. I also could have done with more Dustin Hoffman and less Jon Voight. That MAGA maniac from Yonkers is never more off putting than when putting on a Texas charm offensive, as he does here.So, a mixed bag. Ultimately, my biggest positive takeaway was being introduced to the work of documentarian Buirski who I was sorry to hear had died recently, only in her late 50s. TCM's showing two of her other docs and I look forward to seeing them. B minus.
Reviewed by NeutrinoKid 8 / 10

Mean Streets

Immense insights into the filmmaking world as it turned on a fulcrum in the heavy and turbulent days of the making of Midnight Cowboy (1969) and an explanation of how a gay British filmmaker could make a wildly successful and popular X-rated film about a bisexual cowboy hustler and his tramp friend as they battled to survive on the dirty streets of New York City. Jon Voight provides essential commentary and the chaotic zeitgeist of the late 60s is carefully explored.Film lovers will appreciate the insider's perspective and the tales about the production and others will gain a keen sense of the volatility of American culture during those years.
Reviewed by MortSahlFan 6 / 10

Too extracurricular

Using the currency of the moment to tie in other trendy things.. A stockbroker mentality. Where was the "Midnight Cowboy" stuff? They took a short interview with Jon Voigt and spliced it up and inserted a bit every 15 minutes.. And there's one old Dustin Hoffman audio they used.. I'm a left-winger, and this trendy justice whorior thing just bugged me. They are just making money off the latest thing that makes money. Nothing else.It's a great movie, but I would have loved to have heard more interviews, more archives.. I don't need some 24-year old to explain the movie to me. It was nice to have some audio from the writer, who has been forgotten in cinema.
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