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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy is a 2022 American documentary film, written, directed, and produced by Nancy Buirski. It is loosely based on and inspired by Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel.
With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's...
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- Documentary
- Nancy Buirski
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy: Directed by Nancy Buirski. With Jon Voight, Waldo Salt, Jennifer Salt, John Schlesinger. Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.
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- Documentary, History
- Nancy Buirski
- 2023-09-05
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy is a Zeitgeist Films release in association with Kino Lorber and opened in theaters on June 23, 2023. To book this film please contact Nancy Gerstman or Emily Russo.
Jun 1, 2023 · Sep 6, 2023. Obliquely but evocatively, “Desperate Souls” ponders the many roles of the cowboy: gay icon, cinematic hero and symbol of American manifest destiny from the Rockies to the Mekong. Yet the documentary acknowledges that neither Schlesinger’s film nor its era could change everything. Read More.
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- Jon Voight
- Nancy Buirski
Jun 23, 2023 · ‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ Review: A Documentary About What Made a New Hollywood Classic Indelible Reviewed at Film Forum, June 14, 2023. Running time: 101...
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Jun 22, 2023 · A documentary examines how the winner for best picture of 1969 captured shifts in American life. Jon Voight, right, and Dustin Hoffman on the set of “Midnight Cowboy,” as seen in Nancy Buirski ...
