Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

  • Documentary
6/23/2023
102
NR

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This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.

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  • Brent_Marchant

    Its unfortunate when a filmmaker sets out to pay tribute to a cinematic classic yet somehow manages to mangle the effort, but, regrettably, thats precisely what happened in writer-director Nancy Buirskis attempted homage to John Schlesingers Midnight Cowboy (1969), the only X-rated release ever to win the Oscar for best picture. The scattered narrative of this poorly constructed documentary seems to focus on virtually everything except the film itself, drawing upon an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to explaining what influenced this screen epic rather than what went into the making of the picture itself. While its certainly enlightening and helpful to provide viewers with sufficient back story about the timing of a movies producti...

    September 5, 2023

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