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- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 33 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "As engrossing as it is ambitious, Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy contextualizes a landmark film within the pivotal moment of its creation."
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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 · Film. Reviews. Jun 23, 2023 10:20am PT. Critics Pick. ‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ Review: A Documentary About What Made a New Hollywood Classic...
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...
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.
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.
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. Full Review |...
Jun 30, 2023 · Nancy Buirski’s masterful Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy, edited with Anthony Ripoli (A Crime on the Bayou, The Rape of Recy Taylor, By Sidney Lumet) is much more than a documentary on John Schlesinger’s multiple Oscar-winning film.
