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Jun 23, 2023 · ‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ Review: A Documentary About What Made a New Hollywood Classic Indelible. Nancy Buirski's rapt documentary channels how "Midnight...
Jul 5, 2023 · Desperate Souls positions Midnight Cowboy as a movie that captured a moment. The documentary by Nancy Buirski (A Crime on the Bayou) isn’t a typical ‘making of’ flick. She instead creates a cinematic essay about Midnight Cowboy and a turning point in American cinema.
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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Jun 23, 2023 · But Desperate Souls’ sheer enthusiasm for Midnight Cowboy and the cultural period is infectious, a vibe that compensates for certain faults holding it back from becoming a truly great documentary. While structurally ambitious in its approach to montage, the precise cutting is flawed and fragmented.
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Sep 1, 2022 · Nancy Buirski's new documentary makes the case that the 1969 best picture winner is the key film of the New Hollywood era.
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...
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Jun 23, 2023 · The documentary “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of the Midnight Cowboy” attempts to investigate the film’s origins and explain how and why this movie resonated with the world the way it did.
