Midnight cowboy
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681434476
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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 |
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Genre: | Buddy films. Feature films. Fiction films. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | DVD MID (Text) | 35110001229141 | Adult DVDs | Volume hold | Available | - |
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.