Midnight cowboy

Midnight cowboy

DVD - 2018

Two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams.

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Subjects
Male prostitutes > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Swindlers and swindling > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Male friendship > Drama.
Outcasts > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Criminals > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Buddy films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Buddy films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2018]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Jerome Hellman Productions
Corporate Author
Jerome Hellman Productions (production company)
Other Authors
John Schlesinger, 1926-2003 (film director), Jerome Hellman (film producer), Waldo Salt (screenwriter), Dustin Hoffman, 1937- (actor), Jon Voight, 1938- (-), Brenda Vaccaro, 1939-, James Leo Herlihy
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Widescreen (Aspect ratio, 1.85:1)
Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy.
Features: audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman; new selected-scene commentary by cinematographer Adam Holender; short film "The crowd around the cowboy" (1969) made on location for Midnight cowboy; "Waldo Salt : a screenwriter's journey" (1990) an Academy Awardnominated documentary by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann; two short 2004 documentaries on the making and release of Midnight cowboy; interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost show from 1970; interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles; excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA tribute to Schlesinger, featuring Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman; trailer.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, NTSC, region1; Widescreen (Aspect ratio, 1.85:1) presentation; Monaural.
Audience
Rating: R.
Awards
Academy Award, 1970: Best picture; Best director; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Adam Holender; editor, Hugh A. Robertson; music, John Barry.
ISBN
9781681434476
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Texan Joe Buck (Jon Voight) ditches his dishwashing job and troubled past for a shot in the Big Apple and his pipedream of succeeding as a hustler ("I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud") in John Schlesinger's "buddy movie," with sickly, two-bit con man "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) as Joe's dodgy pal. Groundbreaking as the sole X-rated film (later rerated "R") to earn a Best Picture Oscar, this downbeat but ultimately poignant drama gets the deluxe treatment-a high-definition restoration with lots of supplements-fit for a rhinestone cowboy. [See Trailers, LJ 4/1/18.] © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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