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Jul 5, 2023 · Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy review: Nancy Buirski's documentary explores the legacy of the 1969 Oscar winner.
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 · 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.
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 1, 2023 · In fact, it is only at the end of the movie that "Desperate Souls" reveals that "Midnight Cowboy" won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Instead, the documentary spends too much time looking at the world around Schlesinger's drama.
Sep 1, 2022 · ‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ Review: A Tribute to a New Hollywood Classic. Nancy Buirski's new documentary makes the case that the 1969 Best Picture winner is...
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 fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X- rated film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
