Midnight cowboy

Barry, John, 1933-2011 (composer (expression)). Hellman, Jerome, (film producer.). Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- (actor.). Miles, Sylvia, 1932- (actor.). Salt, Waldo, (screenwriter.). Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003 (film director.). Vaccaro, Brenda, 1939- (actor.). Voight, Jon, 1938- (actor.). Herlihy, James Leo. motion picture adaptation of (work): Midnight cowboy. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm), (presenter,, publisher.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Jerome Hellman Productions, (production company.). United Artists Corporation, (presenter.). Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White. (Cast).

Summary: One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late-1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference,” Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema.

Record details

ISBN: 9781681434476
Physical Description: videorecording
videorecording
videodisc
2 videodiscs (113 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Copyright: ©1969

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from container. Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy. Features: audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman; new selected-scene commentary by cinematographer Adam Holender; short film "The crowd around the cowboy" (1969) made on location for Midnight cowboy; "Waldo Salt : a screenwriter's journey" (1990) an Academy Awardnominated documentary by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann; two short 2004 documentaries on the making and release of Midnight cowboy; interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost show from 1970; interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles; excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA LA tribute to Schlesinger, featuring Voight and actor Dustin Hoffman; trailer. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Widescreen (Aspect ratio, 1.85:1).
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Adam Holender; editor, Hugh A. Robertson; music, John Barry.
Participant or Performer Note:	Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White.
Target Audience Note:	Canadian Home Video Rating: R.
System Details Note:	DVD, NTSC, region1; Widescreen (Aspect ratio, 1.85:1) presentation; Monaural.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	For private home use only.
Awards Note:	Academy Award, 1970: Best picture; Best director; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium